Quote Originally Posted by Viridiana View Post
The problem being that many people seem to think "instant buying from an interface with some sort of delivery" is synonymous with "AH". An *auction* house would be a place with. . . y'know, *auctions*. I can't speak for XI's AH system, having never played it, but I know in WoW most items on their AH were bought out, not bid on. Only time most people would bid is if they really wanted something but couldn't afford/weren't willing to pay the buyout cost. As much as everyone loves to bash WoW around here, I'm sure a similar system would result in the same behavior here.
Which would make such a system useless.

I'd rather see the Amazon model implemented which is essentially what the MW's are, but it just needs more tweak and fixes to get it right.