Guild Wars 2

Considering dungeon tokens are account bound, why are the items bought with those tokens (armour, runes, etc.) not also account-bound?

Currently there is no way to return token items for a refund and no protection against buying unusable items. In other words, a player logged into a character that wears medium armour can (mistakenly) buy a piece of heavy or light armour, which he is then unable to use, unable to return, and unable to send to his other characters. The same goes for weapons, and some of them have deceptive names (ex., some bows are simply called “bow”, not specifically “longbow” and “shortbow”, and the same goes for some swords / greatswords).

By making the items account bound (optionally becoming soulbound once they are actually equipped), the player would at least be able to use the item on a different character.

Note that this doesn’t invalidate the need for a way to get a refund, but it would at least make those items slightly less useless.