I've seen a junkyard on many different sites and thought I should bring the idea here!
Option A:
What is a Junkyard you may ask? A junkyard is where you put your item in, and get a random one back. Once a day you would be able to visit the junkyard and participate in this random trade.

How would I get an item of equal value? Deposit a piece of armor, get armor back. Deposit an avatar item, get a different one back. This would ensure that you get a sort of similar item back.

Option B:
The next style would be vending machine. We all know how vending machines work right? Put the quarter in the slot and the item comes falling out.

To earn a token you trade items in (same thing as above, armor gets you armor token, avatar item gives you avatar items). Once an hour you can trade for a coin/token. You could then use them in the coordinating machine, dispensing an item at random.

This would be an easy way for the user base to swap items for other users items without even knowing.

Comments, questions, concerns? If you have revisions please ping me with ideas, I would love to make this idea better.

Thanks,
Carrotbae

I was on a site a bit ago that had something similar to this. It was a big hole somewhere and all of the items that were donated were tossed in. Twice an hour you could pull an item out. If it was empty, you couldn't pull anything out until someone threw something in.

I've been on a couple of sites where there was something like this. Usually it's more or less as Yumi described- in the inventory, there is a "throw away" option, which when you throw stuff out, lands them in the junk yard. For some, it's a game to throw something and see if one of your friends can catch it, lol.

We don't really have a throw away option, pretty much if you want to get rid of something you either have to sell it to another user, or sell it back to the game. I guess if you sell it back to the game that could count and throw it into a junk yard somewhere...

Also, Krin did mention a crafting feature may be part of the whole site upgrade, after the megazone is implemented. It might well offer some way to transmute items into like items, which would amount to the same thing. At least, i hope there will be a feature like this ;)