Quote Originally Posted by Azureskies View Post
Because if you can't sell on other servers you shouldn't be able to buy on them. All it does is make the more populated servers be burdened with supplying the lower populated ones. If traders could buy and sell on what ever server they wanted then it would be a.. much more fair market.

There is a reason no other game (MMORPG) has done something so incredibly stupid to their market.
The idea behind it is if you restrict sales on other servers you are stopping people from ruining the economy on that server. Allowing purchases of items cross-world allows the economy of those servers to benefit rather than lose out. Most players don't travel cross-world to purchase items as well I have found since I am able to price things well above average (compared to other servers on my DC) and people still buy them at that price rather than going to the cheapest server.

From both a sellers stand point and a buyers stand point if you do the research you will come out on top. Its not just a case of the populated servers supplying the lower population servers since in many cases smaller population servers have less gil comparatively and therefore sell items for less than high population servers.