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Question regarding ladder/non-ladder items

Hi sorry this may be a dumb question but I really don't know how this works.. I'm playing non-ladder char and I saw that some of the items are ladders only. For example runewords like infinity as suggested on arreat summit.. but then how come they are sold on the internet to non-ladder characters (perm items)? The other day, I tried to test it out by socketing a monarch shield with the right runewords (right order too) thinking that blizzard probably allows non-ladder char to make them now, but ended up getting a crappy shield with only those rune effects separately. Can someone tell me why? I really want to use griffon for my pure lightning sorc and it's a ladder item too. Please help.
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