Autovend

[The Legendary Joe]

In my oppinion, having an expiration date forces the vendors to actually look at their shop and check to see if anything has sold. If we didn't have auto-vend, I'm certain most of the things inside said vends would be a lot cheaper, as they'd be priced to move, rather the economy we have where we set a price and wait until people get the 50 gajillion zenny we want to sell that Jellopy for. If there is an expiration date, at least the location would open up regularly, the vendor would have to check his inventory and see what has sold and what hasn't, and perhaps decide if he should raise or lower the price based on the demand (or sales of their product).

All autotrade does is log out your account, and leave your merch vending. You, as the manager of that shop should still have to check up on it from time to time. There are some people who just set it and forget it.

That said when one person has over 20 merchants set up, and left it sitting there for months on end, It doesn't really do much to make the server more lively.