Years ago - I dreamed of someday getting a valorite runic hammer.
As my UO addiction grew and I had extra accounts to hold houses, I wanted those character slots to have some use, so I trained them up as bod-runners (this was before you could complete the bod and immediately get another) and so I ended up with 22 smith/tailors.
I never got that runic... and even though I never filled the bods, I still collected them regularly.
Lately, Imbuing made the market change a lot - and the Dev's added a small chance for a reward to get bumped up a level or two. At that point, I started sorting and filling bods again... I have since cranked out well over 500 runic hammers of varying levels (still no valorite though... *sighs*).
Basically - there is finally a reason to do bods again - and many have huge stockpiles of them. I think there is your answer.