I believe good chinese equipment is recycled.... players buy from the stall, then re-sell when they get the replacements.
Euro is new, therefore there is very little good equipment to go around.
PL does NOT HELP EITHER
I'd just buy the best crap for the cheapest price... like when I stall lvl 2x bare items for 1K above the NPC's offer.

(the sad thing is, no one buys it

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