Not being able to buy single items from a stack on the marketward.

[Xerius]

Need 1 item? Buy the stack use the 1 you need put the rest back on the market. It's an extra step but you gotta do what you gotta do. It's not the sellers fault that you only need 1 item and they shouldn't be penalized for it.

[Felix7007]

Need 1 item? Buy the stack use the 1 you need put the rest back on the market. It's an extra step but you gotta do what you gotta do. It's not the sellers fault that you only need 1 item and they shouldn't be penalized for it.

and then you use your retainer slots selling left-overs instead of what you are trying to make. So no this is not a solution. What you describe is a work-around.

[Wazabi]

and then you use your retainer slots selling left-overs instead of what you are trying to make. So no this is not a solution. What you describe is a work-around.

There will always be constrains in everything that we do, not just in the market. The better ones were able to do it more effectively than others, thus they rise to the top.

Taking your example, I bought big stack of raw gem just to consume 1 of them. I still have some of them in my retainer 1month later. There are downtimes for selling things, that's when I'll clear my inventory of these items. More often than not, I will have better things to sell, so they end up sitting in my inventory. When I run out of space, I either sell them at ridiculously low price, or just vendor them off. I think of this as part of the cost of making that 1 item in order to gain the xp for crafting new items. Eventually, I found that it's not worth doing, so I no longer craft every single recipes for my other crafting classes. You just have to find the more economic way of doing things instead of blindly following guides or what other people says.

Yes, the game can make it more convenient for us...but I think the way it is set up allow traders to play around with different strategies, and that is more important than the minor convenience that you want.