Perhaps this has been covered in a previous post, my apologies if so. Anyhow, while still an advocate of an auction house vs. retainer wards, it i what it is, but currently at least a couple of enhancements need to happen:

1. Pre-merger this was sometimes an issue, but more so now post-merger. There is 0 room for any more retainers in the Ul Dah wards. It's annoying enough that you can't move your retainers to the appropriate ward to minimize selling fees, but this is now totally unliveable, and I trust SE is looking into this for a viable solution. Perhaps a consolidated marekt of all 3 cities would work. It seems to me this would also reduce the Ul Dah population (lag) issue as well. This, of course, would necessitate the added abiity to view the item for sale from outside the ward, and I'm not sure how doable that is.

2. If enough NQ items are for sale, the current system makes it impossible to sell/buy HQ items. This needs to be fixed as well.

I'm sure, along with these, there are other good ideas I'm overlooking to make the retainer system viable