selling doesn't pay off. Admins take you min 80k gold,and with selling +3 item you can only buy 2 loompoints. So it is total bullshit to sell ur stuff.
Yep, you can no longer sell your +3, then hold gold until something you like comes along. Say goodbye to 150k-200k just to do that innocent activity and trying to trade efficiently by taking advantage of a currency and liquid market.
Now the market is completely obscured, and we are back to pre-currency economic age of spamming forums and messages, putting up 10 offers for an item every week to try and arrange barter trades.