If you're set on farming and are accumulating mats faster than they sell when listed at market price then it's perfectly rational to want to move more volume at a lower price.
Say you can sell 20% of your weekly stock at market rate. What do you do with the remaining 80%?
If you've invested in multiboxing then you want your accounts to be at 100% utilization when gold-making. There aren't many activities besides farming that afford you that opportunity, so (1) isn't going to be very appealing to you.
So, (2) it is!