Miscellaneous: Newbie drops - selling for (much) more than classic?

[Malrubius]

So I got a friend of mine to start up on P1999, and he pointed out that a lot of the lowest level trash mobs drop stuff that sells for several gold here.

Now that he mentions it, I notice the same thing... <EDIT - bat fur is a bad example - venom sacs, some rusty weapons, etc., sell for several gold> Lots of other stuff like this. You can have 100pp from selling your yard trash drops by the time you are level 10.

Memory is a funny thing, but I do know that this was not the case back in the 99-01 timeframe. I know a few plat was a huge deal at the time. I can have a few plat by the time I'm level 2 or 3 now - without leaving sight of the guards.

I don't have any proof of this or documentation, but maybe it's out there somewhere. Can anybody else back this up? Devs - can we just nerf the drops (or more likely, the vendor pricing of the drops)?