It's never been as rampant as it is lately though.
On a side note, I do wonder whatever happened to auction runs (there was another term for them, but I can't recall it right now). Basically, you'd form a ML pug, and anything that dropped went up for auction right then and there. Highest bidder would win said item. Rinse, repeat, and at the end of the instance, the pot collected would be split among all involved players.