[Ninnin]

I think making people have to "work" to find good deals will benefit merchants and benefit craftspeople - and move to re-create an Everquest class that was long ago forgotten "The EC Tunnel Trader caravan". Having limited regional search tools is a good thing. But if I as a trader want to move a large amount of say "Mithril Longswords" from one area of the world where they are manufactured regularly to a remote location where Mithril is just unavailable.. I want my efforts to have the *potential* to reap rewards.

Of course don't mistake that for greed - while I expect to be able to earn better coin doing this - I do expect that people should be able to "search the area" for other traders that are maybe doing the same thing.

Localized searches for localized markets is a good thing. Global (Auction Houses, one zone Bazars, and Serverwide traders) trade is a bad thing.