Considering the fact that the devs of this game have a bad history of horrid design choices, their reasoning for not wanting an auction house doesn't really fly.
Who has pooled those in to the YES votes for auction houses? Certainly not me. I just don't like votes for the options to change the existing system to be pooled in with the YES votes to keep everythi
I am fully aware of the differences between a forum poll and a poll using actual standards such as random sampling. Heck, there are auction house polls in these forums that are split pretty even thou
That said plenty of guild members shop in house in there own guilds first, sometimes I even overpay for stuff when I know the seller especially when I know they have bought some of my overpriced items
The guild trader system has already underwent massive changes and basically functions as a makeshift centralized auction house as of now when you take into account third party sites like Tamriel Trade