Cross server Auction house?

[Tigercub]

if stuff isnt available on any server now, why would it become available if all the wards were connected server to server? it wont, itl basicaly change nothing

and to top it off, you then only see the top 20 prices between all servers and not just your own so itl be even harder to sell stuff in several areas

Well the idea is that a bigger pool of people would buy stuff at a faster rate, which would encourage crafters to list items that before weren't selling very fast. If 1% of 1000 people want a particular item each week, then maybe 10 will sell in a week. It's too slow for a crafter to thrive on so they don't bother even listing the item. Most of those 10 people don't get the item they are looking for. If 1% of 10,000 people want a particular item each week, then you have 100 selling in a week. That's a much more interesting number. It's potentially somebody's paycheck.

A lot of crafters, for convenience sake alone, like to play the market with only a handful of specific items at any given time. If they make a bunch of a single item that moves slowly, they've made a long profit queue for themselves, so items like this don't get made at all and therefore none are sold, despite the fact that there is some demand. If it moves just that much faster, someone will fill the niche and the ball starts rolling again.

Overall I think cross server markets would go a long way in bringing some life back into the economy. As for the negative effects of doing something like this, I have a nagging feeling that I'm missing something potentially pretty bad, but I don't quite know what.