I think the problem with an auction house is availability, it becomes too high.
But selling things, and buying things, is problematic in D4.
Generic things like gems, runes and boss material is easy to sell but items are harder. Especially good legendaries is difficult, I feel.
But what if we could set up a shop, put in various items. Not too many but some. Set our prices and the shop would randomly appear in the world at times. It’d be a traveling merchant you could find and it’d have items that a player put out.
The shop should be rare, like an event. Rarer than a shrine would be, for example. More like… every fifth or tenth run you make, you find a shop.
I’d want to put out items which I feel are good but I can’t be bothered to either use or sell. Like maybe I got this double ga dex/life bow that i know someone would pick up for a couple of 100’s. But selling that is much more of a bother than it is an income. Thing is… for me… i’d buy that bow rn. but no one stock this cause it’s a problem to off it. So what if we had a merchant, perhaps a kind of new companion? And this merchant would sell legendaries for us? Wouldn’t sell runes or uniques, or gems, only legendaries.
It would be an event, finding a shop. Funny thing, no? Maybe there’s something in there. Someone put out stuff and it could be something u would be interested in. Something valuable to a good price sometimes, perhaps?
Maybe something funny for each party, both sellers and buyers. And without overshadowing finding your own items as a shop doesn’t appear too often and may or may not contain something you’re interested in.
So this would be a caravan merchant. And you’d put in the items. Then the caravan departs, with the items, and it’s gone for a cycle. During this cycle the merchant appear randomly in players worlds, displaying the items. Once the cycle is completed, the merchant returns to the city with the goods left and the earnings.
Idk how long a cycle it should be. A day perhaps. Like it shouldn’t be something you has to run and check. Perhaps you could select a time for the cycle yourself? And perhaps the merchant always return if it sell out? And u could call it back, but there would still be some time… it wouldn’t happen immediately.
Idk how the particulars should be of course.
What you think about this idea?