I have to agree on this matter with the OP. While I do feel that private stores have a very limited use (such as rural areas where AH does not reach) giving them such an incredibly short timer makes them completely pointless. Although it wont be as drastic as the 30 min timers, I feel something around a 2 hour timer would work a little better. It would prevent people from going AFK to work or school or w/e, but still give the seller a decent amount of time for people to peruse the wares.

Either way hopefully this will cut down on all the annoying open stores in Pand and w/e they call the Elyos city. Nothing destroys the ambiance of the otherwise pretty cool cities like people sitting on crates and text as far as the eye can see.

Still nice to see them trying to do something though. Effort at least shows acknowledgment of the problem and an attempt to fix (effective or otherwise).