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I don't know if many of you have been hit by this bug, but it happens regularly to me and I know to a few others as well. I recently found a workaround (by accident of course) for it. I apologize if this has been posted before.

Bug description: if an item gets stuck in a vendor stockroomand is retrieved using retrieve/cancel/retrieve method, it has a chance of becoming invalid upon crossing a server boundary (or moving out of house existence range - not sure which one) and disappearing. Until last patch those itemsbecame invalid, after the patch they started to disappear.Usually items lost this way reappear after server reset.

Workaround: right after you retrieve items that have a chance of becoming invalid, but before you move anywhere, /logout to char selection screen and come back. Items somehow become "validated" and will stay that way. It is essential that you relog before items disappear, because when they do, it's too late to do this trick.

I made an experiment - I retrieved 2 items from my vendor using retrieve/cancel/retrieve, relogged, retrieved2 more and went to Theed (my house is nearby). About halfway to Theed, the latter two items disappeared while the former two stayed valid.

Try it, may be it will help you as well - it sure helped me quite a few times already.

This is a problem that has been confirmed by CSR as follows.

When you retrieve an item, it is fine and is sitting in your inventory etc. When you move around in game, and cross an internal server boundary - that causes the item to disapear.

Basically it is an issue with the games database not passing on item information to other servers quick enough.

If this happens, the items will re-apear next time you log on (after a server reset.)

This is why logging out clears the issue - because logging causes your inventory to be saved and logged, it forces the database to update there and then.

Great..my shop will be littered with LD people logging in and out before they leave with their merchandise.