Why not just buy things straight from the item search counter?

It seems to me the easiest fix to Market Wards is to keep the basic system as is, but remove the actual wards. Here's how I see it would work.

1: you exchange items with your retainer at the summoning bell.
2: you go up to an item search counter and check the current rate of the item you wish to sell
3: While in the same menu you select up to 10 items from your retainers inventory to sell.
4: if you want to buy something you search the item search feature and purchase it directly from that menu. They money goes to that players retainer.
5: you pick up your Gil from the retainer bell after your item sold.

this way would keep the market wards working exactly how they already do, just without the constant zoning and without searching for the retainer with the item your looking for. Also you wouldn't have to run back and forth between your retainer and the door to check the prices of what you want to sell.

I don't see how this system would work without a flat tax on all items, or perhaps different tax rates on different types of items at different cities to encourage people to go the LL and Grid more often.

Because the informed masses voted for AUCTION HOUSE instead of "wasting their time on the Marketplace" when the fix is this simple. And SE listens, since communication makes the game so much better.

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Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah

Because the informed masses voted for AUCTION HOUSE instead of "wasting their time on the Marketplace" when the fix is this simple. And SE listens, since communication makes the game so much better.

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This would pretty much be an auction house without the price history or people's character names in the search. Perhaps I didn't quite get me point across effectively

I actually like going to the retainers rather than straight buying an item from a menu. It gives me the opportunity to look at other items in their bazaar that I may also be interested in buying.

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Originally Posted by Alzelia

This would pretty much be an auction house without the price history or people's character names in the search. Perhaps I didn't quite get me point across effectively

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Yeah, I know. I've been saying this since December. But the players want an Auction House. And now it has been probably in the making for months (since it was mentioned in the first letter of the producer).

Maybe add a 5% delivery tax for buying items this way for the convenience and to remove a bit more gill from the economy, if you don't want to pay the tax then go to the retainer as normal.

With this you are right it is pretty much an AH and that is not a bad thing ^^

At this point I don't really care which way SE goes with MW/AH. But this is the exact same thing as AH. If they did this they should implement a whole AH system and not a cheapy half MW half AH. If you have AH style system, you don't need MW and the retainer bazaar ability becomes obsolete. Retainers will be only good for item storage. Im not saying this is bad or good but DO NOT make some cheap knock off with half MW and half AH style system. If they do implement AH...they should do it right.

I agree with the OP in that they should use what the currently have and alter it so we can buy items from the search counter, SE could remake the MW as a players house zone where we could keep our retainer and adjust them when we need to.

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Originally Posted by Eldaena

I actually like going to the retainers rather than straight buying an item from a menu. It gives me the opportunity to look at other items in their bazaar that I may also be interested in buying.

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^ This.
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Being able to purchase items directly from the item search menu would increase usability, convenience, and encourage more people to participate in the economy.

It would also solve the problem of wards crashing.