Those chests are only good as mats for furniture and other purple recipes, and usually you need the green one or the blue one, so this is only a step toward building a mat. As such, chests are specialty items and neither needed nor wanted by a large percentage of the people in the game.
So if you try to sell it, the target audience will be very small, being those people who need the green or blue recipe chest but don't have the white recipe to start with.
It is better to just vendor the chest, you still make a profit.
Ciao,
Jhordan