Quote Originally Posted by Tezeret View Post
at lvl 19 in your story quest line...you earn the right to hire retainers. I believe...and i could be wrong...that they act as a bank and as a merchant. You can store items with them, and sell items on the market boards with them.


Until then...you WILL be forced to sell stuff to vendors for next to nothing if you can't use them.
Retainers can hold 175 items for you, and gems/gils