Ooh, I really like Eura's suggestion of making bidding anonymous. For me it always seems like the same few people I'm bidding against, and it feels pretty frustrating to get a bunch of notifications to see the same user has bid on all the items i just bid on.... when they hadn't been on the auction thread before I had bid. I feel like this can make it waaayyy less frustrating!

I also really like the suggestion of a global user market search. Some things just.... aren't sold in the auctions, or at least not often. Like when I was on a quest to complete my recipe book, I'd need like. 4 Devolution Fruits or 2 Bearberries and want to buy them, but there weren't any in the auction house. And when I looked through usershops, it was so hard! Because there's like, interaction groups, where you exhaust all the people in that group (by clicking on the recent interactions for the person's page you're on) and have to find someone new to start over again.

To deal with the above, I resorted to the dealer's den on the discord. Which was.... also not great. Like, I got the stuff eventually. But I 1.) felt annoying posting in there all the time and 2.) none of us knew good prices and it felt awkward to hash them out in public, like I was going to be called out if I said a price that was super under what it should be, called out for scamming someone when I'm not aware of the prices that anything goes for. So the whole thing was..... intensely anxiety-inducing!

I rambled a lot here but I feel like I have some good points in there..... Overall I'm mostly okay with auctions, but still feel the frustration others have mentioned in this thread.

Edit:
Forgot to mention! I really hate when people bid more than 1PC for certain things. Like with the Albino Colorcrow, people would increase it by 500PC or even 1,000PC, and it felt so... needless. The prices were already so high, only the rich players like myself were in the bidding war, so why make the winner spend an extra 5,000PC+ on the item, when what won the auction was diligence, not money. For less in-demand items, the increase should be a lot more than 1PC, because it's more likely that the bidders aren't both rich and willing to spend 10,000PC+ for the item. It's just.... not great overall, but I don't know if this is an issue the site can fix, or an issue with the community.