If you still want to do an auction system, the change I made that allowed sending gold via mudmail was a forerunner test for sending items as well.

The system would work for that so that a daemon could send the won item via mail, no need for physical location of items, unless you want auctioning items to be stealable, in which case it wouldnt be used most likely.

Now you could make folks go to the auction house to drop off and pick up, setting them up for ambushes if they hang out in there perusing things.