I know this has been mentioned before, but the threads I found were months old and I didnt want to re-awaken one from fear of repreasal.
I suggest one of two things;
Either give us the option to lock items which we carry in personal storage. To prevent selling them to merchants, when your rushing through your items.
You wont even be able to view these items when speaking to merchants, because they will be hidden from the selling window.
It would be as simple as ticking a button or holding shift when you double click it to say "locked" or "protected".
Or...
Create another kind of bag to carry clothes or weapons or anything. Anything inside this bag cannot be sold to merchants, traded or salvaged.
When speaking to a merchant, it wont even display in the selling window.
You can still how ever open inventory and see it as you would any other bag, to allow you to pass items back and forth to/from storage.
Make it small to start with like any other bag, and use a rune of holding to inlarge it.
Either way, either of those ideas would sort it out.
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