Quote:My question... if you auction something and get...lets say...2000 astral shards.
What do you do with that? Buy other stuff in the shard-AH? Reset your epic destinies? Buy some gold seals buffs?
I would rather get the TPs...
It is the only way you can trade a BtCoE item that you have equipped. For example. I have an EH Blue Dragon Helm with +3 Wisdom. I slotted both the augment slots. Then I got an EE version. So now, I don't need the EH one. I can't sell it any other way but the Shard AH.
I have to sell my EH +3 wis helm, an EH shamanic fetish, an EH Ring of Storm Reaver Prophecy, a couple sets of Treads, Grasps, several DunRobars that I was using until my build changed. A pair of Drow Khopeshes. Since they were all equipped at one point, this is the only way to get them out of my bank and get something for them. In exchange, I might find someone else's equipped stuff that they don't need anymore.
Be careful. If you are buying a BtCoE item, chances are it was already bound. If that is the case, when you remove it from your mail, it becomes bound to you instantly. You don't have to equip it. You will not be able to put it in a shared bank, trade it, or list it on the regular AH. That means you have to buy it on the toon you want to equip it on.
Of course, some of the Shard AH items have not been bound previously. If that is the case, then they remain unbound when you get them.
I don't know if you can tell prior to buying if the item is previously bound and will bind instantly or if it is unbound.