Board Thread:LOC General Discussion/@comment-4776878-20130212035630/@comment-121.54.49.27-20130213075144

Actually a terrible idea. I use to play Rage of Bahamut. Trading was pretty much like LoC initially, where you had to search for your trade partners (depite the lack of message board). However one day, the system totally changed, and the free trading was removed and replaced by a system similar to your suggestion called "Bazaar". People put up whatever card they want to sell with the expected item out of it, and buyers get to search and buy.

One of the biggest problem with this is that, price adjustments will move very very fast, as market gets easilly flooded with under-cuts, causing prices to drop quickly. While the system does make it more convenient, and perhaps "cheaper", I have to say this method is for the lazy people. You can almost never make any profit in this system. The inconvenience of the current system is what puts premium in card price. Put a bazaar-like system and you can say goodbye to those premiums.