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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9035825" data-attributes="member: 4937">The assumption of the setting is that the demand for magic items vastly exceeds the available supply.  Thus, it's almost always possible to sell magic items, but rarely possible to buy them.  Any excess magic items in the local market are very quickly snatched up by the buyers with the highest demand and resources - cults, merchant princes, high ranking nobles, royalty, etc. - who would always like more magic items.  There are also a few dealers with high status who acquire any magic items that are surplus in the market, whisk them off to wherever there is currently high demand, and auction them off in private auctions to the highest bidders.  A hedge magician might have a variety of relatively inexpensive items available, geared toward things with high economic value rather than high military value, but it's not going to look very much like Magic Mart.However, if it does look like a Magic Mart because magic is ubiquitous, then it's easy enough to hide everything in Leomund's Secret Chest or a Bag of Holding other extra-dimensional space and then put the magical container in a scry proof box that has a permenent Obscure Object on it and then the whole scrying to find out what is in inventory or even where the inventory is solved.</blockquote>