I like your ideas, Sass! I want to stress, though, S-E does want an auction house in place. They aren't implementing it right away because they want the player economy to establish itself first through bazaars (for whatever reasons; they haven't specifically said why yet). The buildings are already in the game, the map markers, etc. We just can't go inside of them yet.
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