Farmers blessing is your friend
Rush clue scroll completions early for msb, dhide, glory etc (use Sherlocks Note in vote shop to skip steps)
Prep for the skill of the day bonuses
Man i'm not sure what you did to these people but i'm with you on this one.
There are changes that could be made to the Well's price interpretation so that even the irons would feel OK throwing some items in there occasionally. At some point in the last year they nerfed the minimum price to 1M per item (among other specific, niche item price nerfs) which doesn't exactly help the cause...either way i'm interested in seeing where this goes.