Love the way "The BIG" shops get mentioned lol. Personally I have over 1/2 the vendors in the CD Vendor Mall (28), a small place just outside Britan (16), A small 3 vendor patch also in Umbra, and my own 45 vendor shop /home in Tokuno. Whilst this is not quite the number that Gwen has with her 3 establishments, (All are stocked by myself as well.....so as an individual Vendor Im pretty big), thus Id like to think that I can compete with BWT, F&T etc as a fairly large concern.....
I would never dream that we would be able to reach an agreement on prices, especially with some of the shops obvioulsy charging well over the average price to the passing trade, but it was an idea thrown into the melting pot. Would NEVER be workable cos then there would be no cut throat pricing to undercut the other vendors....and ruin 1/2 the fun of shopping around..... As Ive mentioned, personally I go round over 25 vendors every day, and try to ensure that MY prices are the lowest available, and if not they are certainly very competetive.
Ive seen the minor major dooms (Legs of Bane, Shad Legs, Midnights, Hunters etc) drop massively in recent weeks, but now they seem to be leveling back out again and in some case rising slightly as folk realise that some of them are not dropping quite as often as the current prices indicate.
As usual our market has a knee jerk reaction to updates, and takes a few months to find it base. Lets face it tho, it now gives a lot of folk the chance to own an AOF or a Orni, where in the past they were just day dreams.