The Free Market needs a change.

No, ripping off is the guy in the FM Entrance spamming "B> GFA 60% 5mil" when the market value is closer to 13mil... and free owls solves that problem.

You should not have to search through 15 FM rooms to price check every item you buy or sell. That's a sign of a horribly designed market, and it discourages honest business.

This.
I admittedly skipped the last two pages of this thread, but you said basically the first thing on the first page.

Owls are a needless hassle that have just carried on.
I don't honestly see the logic in Nexon keeping them around while experience cards (temporarily) got the boot.

A non-searchable Free Market needlessly unbalances the market, especially for new-comers.
To compare, the MMO I played most before being introduced to Maple was Neopets.
For those unfamiliar, there they have a trifecta in the form of a shop system, an auction system, and a 'trading post'.
In all three systems, you can search.

This meant that the market adjusts pretty quickly and you're easily able to tell the 'true value' of your items.
Honestly, it was hard enough for me before, but, with Potential, I have no idea what a decent price for most items is.

Let's look at Owls as an item as well.
First of all, they cost 700nx, which is over half of a cube and over a third of a 90-day simple shop permit.
Using a 1:15 estimation of value, that also means you're basically spending 10.5m mesos per search.
How viable is this when you just want to search for something like Pieces of Time?

I'm all for adding a search function and treating it as a meso sink.
I'd be perfectly willing to pay even 200k per search. Even 1mil would be saving me over a tenth of what it theoretically costs now.

The whole "the FM is a physical place" is the most out-of-date part though.
I don't know how WoW's market works, but there's no excuse for players to go around physically clicking on each shop just to browse their wares.
Consider my vote for the "repurpose the MTS interface" idea.