My retainer found something interesting...

[Sadana]

My retainer ran through Brayflox NM the other day and nabbed a hat. It made me wonder... for these items that are unique, what happens if my retainer brings back something I have in my inventory already?

[mbncd]

My retainer ran through Brayflox NM the other day and nabbed a hat. It made me wonder... for these items that are unique, what happens if my retainer brings back something I have in my inventory already?

You don't actually get the item until you claim it from the report so I would hope we can simply close the report, store the item we already have on the retainer's inventory, then claim the item from the report. A few times though I've had my retainer bring back nothing but a single 25 gil allagan coin so I'm not sure if there was supposed to be something else with that...

[Mere]

My retainer ran through Brayflox NM the other day and nabbed a hat. It made me wonder... for these items that are unique, what happens if my retainer brings back something I have in my inventory already?

I would guess you get an error saying that you can only hold one unique item.

I had only one inventory slot free when attempting to open my retainer's Venture Report, and got an error about not having enough slots on inventory. So I dropped something and tried again. It turns out my retainer brought back 2 items.

So yeah, I assume it should be the same as when you open a coffer or try to reclaim a quest reward: You get an error and the " event" doesn't go thru until you fix your inventory.