For someone doesn't like it when people "ruin" your sales threads you sure are quick to jump on the bandwagon when someone else sells something you don't think is "worth it"
Luna houses will always be great. Proximity to city services (tailor/smith/mage shops) and moongate and banking services will always make Luna houses desirable.
If you note the post I was replying to, it said the sale was being reconsidered.
Luna Houses, being in town like Magincia, by the way, will always be capable of offering something more, like you said, just will no longer be able to have items priced too high because of the competition with the rest of the vendors elsewhere. This small advantage, as I see it, does not any longer justify the prices I have seen Luna Houses selling in the past for several hundreds millions of gold.
The global search engine will be a very very good addition to UO, way long past due, IMHO, as it will fight inflation which has been affecting Ultima Online for too long now.