So, I got bored and started wandering through the market wards in Ul'Dah, looking for junk to fix for easy rank points (yeah that's inefficient but I was bored with straight grinding,) but NOBODY had ANYTHING to fix there!!

I'm wondering if it ought to be a requirement that in order to keep a retainer in the Mender's Ward ONLY that they should have an item in need of repair in their bazaar.

Nobody having anything to fix kind of defeats the purpose of even having a Mender's Ward, I would think.