yes, and i still dont understand why they used outdated and limited access, seem only the largest and "richest" control vendors weeks after weeks, not giving smaller guilds chances, i dont know how many, and i think it around 100 traders and there is more than 700-1,000 guilds trying to sell.

also, i agreed, i AM TIRED of looking at list of 'copies' from vendor to vendor looking for something specific, and other games already has fast "search" format.

i think they are either bot supporters or they may have secret 3rd party untrackable contracts to keep vendor npcs for themselves and not losing to anyone, just more than enough to outbid every weeks.

this is design disaster and guild killer, this need to be "universal' auction. just suggession, each faction should have unique universal traders, "Daggerfall Merchants", Ebonheart Merchants, and Aldimiri Merchants just enough to reduce massive listings, like Eq2's Qeynos brokers and Newportian brokers, example

if you are in Ebon faction, and you shop there, price are normal, and you visit Dagger and Aldimiri, they cost you little more since you dont belong to either factions.
We need better "Search" function.

i am tired to wasted hours to look, and within 15-20 mins, i get real sleepy, even i rested and slept 6-8 hours and had a cup of coffee. i dont need this, this is almost 2018, not 2001.

In some ways I get why they had guild traders and I think it does add that merchant playstyle people long to find in many MMO games but in many other ways it's so inconvenient having to travel between hundreds of traders to find something especially with no real UI help.
Most of the "busy area" ones are controlled by the same guilds week in week out anyway so it's not like its people really fighting for them and there is no actual ingame interface to search across the worlds traders meaning it's even more aggravating finding something and I then usually end up going with the first one I find regardless of price and there is no real competition because I use the same few Elden Root Guild Traders because its easier.

I think they just have a system now where big rich guilds stay rich and the small new guilds have little to no chance since all mass multi-category trading is done via traders, the only choice they have is to spam zone trying to sell stacks.
I wouldn't mind seeing single areas for a zone where all traders are gathered, that or just one traider per zone and guilds can bid on "shares" of that traider making a guild "tax" off of it, maybe 10% or something that is added on to all bought sales, that 10% is then split between the shareholding guilds straight into their banks.

I honestly dont know what they were thinking not adding a simple search feature in, they had the filters but when I want to see a set piece or whatever I have to trawl through 20 pages of every chest, with that trait, at that CP level, at that rarity instead of searching its name and filtering by trait.