The funny part is, untill that patch, they had already let you trade materials between characters & trade them for marks. Only they gave you glimmer and rep too. Basicly, they introduced that at launch, than stripped it away after people had time to get used to having it. Besides, marks did nothing untill you reached the required faction level. Thats why I took the time to reach level 3 with each faction vendor. Now they took away a usefull way to aquire marks, so that people could spend marks reguardless of rep.