Background: I am a restocker. I sit in a couple shops all day and buy items that give me a moderate profit margin. I believe it's fairly obvious that I do not sell these as fast as I buy them. This has resulted in some fairly large stacks of items. Oh, and I'm lazy. I like doing things as easily as possible.

With this in mind, I have two shops that help me sell. One is purely storage. This one is where I put items that I am not selling, but intend to sell when their price goes back up. It's also where I put the majority of items that I buy. I prefer to only sell 1-4 of a certain item of a time, as more than that can clog up the price in shop search. The other shop I have is (obviously) where I sell the items.

The suggestion of this thread is this: can it be possible to combine the idea of storage into user shops? (So that one doesn't have to use a second shop and jump between tabs to figure out what needs to be restocked in the shop)

I know it can get complicated, and I know it's not useful to everyone on the site. But for people (like me) who mainly stick to shops and buying and selling and using storages, it can really help. Maybe it's something as simple as an extra column in the table that says something along the lines of "items stocked", where "0" means [I]On display[/i]

I know one big caveat to this would be the Autopricer. I have two thoughts to this.

1. Leave it as is.
2. Add an option to stock (X) number of items. Obviously, if it's too complicated, leave it as is.

So what are your thoughts? Please, be constructive. Add something to the thought, don't just come in and post something that doesn't add anything to the discussion. What have I missed? What's too complicated?

I want to say this has come up before, and I don't really like it. It sounds like a lot of work for something few people would use. But I guess if it were to be implemented, it wouldn't really bother me as long as there's a way to set it so that every item you add will automatically be in your "for sale" stack if you want. I absolutely do not support having to go in and set everything whenever I put items in my shop

I don't think staff wants to encourage people using shops as storage. Is there a reason you don't use your vault?

: How about this? I think it'd solve your problem, and might be easier to implement:

At the bottom of the "Edit Items" page in each shop, when you select items to remove, the only two destinations are "Inventory" and "Vault". Let me suggest that the Programmers That Be add your other shops as possible destinations. That way you could transfer items from your "storage" shop to your "selling" shop in one step without having to move them to your inventory first.

I do the same thing and have thought about this too. I don't use my vault for storage because there's no way to tell, while in the vault, what the items currently sells for the way it does in a store, and it's far easier to search a store than the vault (namely for categories of things like books, toys, etc).

Instead of modifying the stores, though, I'd suggest beefing up vault functionality. If the vault could show item values and have better item search capabilities, I would absolutely use it and stop using my store(s) for item storage.

I think it's a neat concept but not really necessary at all. I think the coming idea is going to be limiting shop size and this hinders that.

- it has come up before, by me, but it was over a year ago and that would be necro-ing! You're not wrong, there wouldn't be alot of people that would use it. But I don't know how hard it would be to implement. It might be simple, it might not.

- it's inefficient

- I really like that idea. It does cut out a step. :)

- I agree. IT's inefficient to use vaults when shops have unlimited storage.

If there are shop size limits coming, then you're absolutely right. I didn't take that into account. But if not, the necessity is based on perspective. Not everyone will use it, but that goes with most if not all features. Heck, it could be another advantage of having a gold account. I don't know!