You find an item that you don't have any use for, but that someone else would. It's worth a lot of money.

You put it in the guild store in the hopes that they bid enough on that vendor in Mournhold.
They didn't win the bid, so nobody outside the guild can buy your item.
You ask the members of the guild if any of them want the item and nobody does, forcing you to sell it some other way.

You run through every town in the game asking if anyone wants to buy your item, nobody does.
You'd put it in your bank, but it's full.
Your inventory is filling up, you have to get rid of it soon.

You go absolutely everywhere trying to find someone to buy it.

You try to go on Text Chat/Zone Chat, except you can't because you play on console.
You try to go on the forums to find a trade partner. Mods lock the thread less than 5 minutes later because they don't care the trade system is broken like this.
You go to a third party website to find a trade partner, only to get 0 responses due to barely anybody else using said website.

1 of 3 things will happen at this point:

1) You eventually decide that it's hopeless and destroy the item to free up inventory space.

5 seconds later someone enters the area and asks around for the very item you just destroyed, offering a ***-ton of gold in exchange for it.

2) You sell the item for almost nothing or straight up give it away so you can just get rid of it.

5 seconds later someone enters the area and asks around for the very item you just destroyed, offering a ***-ton of gold in exchange for it.

3) You semi-permanently sacrifice an inventory slot to keep the item even though you might never sell it.


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What I hate most about this is that the last time I brought this up on the forums 90% of the people who responded had an allergic reaction to the post and started insulting me because they disagreed.