What trading in PoE is like

trading in POE is fucking bullshit and BY FAR the most annoying trading system in a game - ever!!!

Shame on GGG and Chris for constructing such idiotic "trading system"!!!!!

No one has posted this yet??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI2arGkSwf8

eh, i have had a pretty easy go of it, even from sellers with no buy out listed, though I mainly buy, occasionally sell, no shop.

The formula for me for easy trade is whisper whoever: 'x currency for y item'.

that's it. they either say ok, some counter offer, dont answer or some variation and occasionally verbose answer of no.

in my experiences there is no need to argue with them about how they are obligated to buy or sell, keep it short and to the point. Lots of buyers and sellers, lots of inventory.

I only look for b/o now but a while ago I had this conversation:

me: got price in mind for xxx?
seller: offer
me: I want to buy it not sell to myself, thanks
seller: xxx chaos
me: deal

but that was only once, all the other ended after me ssaying thanks.

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Aim_Deep wrote:

I love trading main reason I quit diabo and came here was trade but there are some major fucking annoyances beyond one you post.

Why cant buy or sell when author not online? AH was open 24/7. didnt matter if seller was sleeping.

What up with asshole in standard who have FS threads but are like "im playing rampage now " ...then delete your fucking thread.

Or my favorite. They are actually online yipeee but dont reply.

You're obviously referring to Diablo 3 which shouldn't even be called Diablo.

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aldorus wrote:

Happened to me yesterday, actually :)

You can get ignored for a low offer eventhough it's a free market ? I don't even ..

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FadeXF wrote:

Gotta say this guys... I have NO IDEA why you guys aren't clicking "Online Only" and "Buyout Only" - those 2 options are right at the bottom of XYZ.

If you aren't using those 2 options, I literally have zero sympathy for you. YOU have the control here. If EVERYONE in the game only ever bought from players with Buyout's listed, they would just sit there forever wondering wtf it wrong.

YOU control this - your experiences with trading.

I have literally only had 2 bad trading experiences since coming over to the dark side... and they were this "bad:" "Hey - you listed X item for 10 chaos, I'll buy it for that" "Oh sorry bro, I decided to hold on to it for a friend." "That's cool, happy hunting!" I shit you not. That is the WORST experience - true story - I've had trading.

The worst experience I've had as a SELLER (I ONLY list buyouts) was some guy 2 days ago saying to me I had out dated prices that my 13 Chaos Atziri boots were worth 10 Chaos - I checked it out, I kinda disagreed - but I was like "Yeah man, I'll do that" - the guy joined party, left group. I dunno if he was trying to troll or what - I kinda thought about it, got pissed, then actually RAISED my price on the boots. Yesterday THE SAME GUY ended up paying 26 fuses for it.

niche items that nobody wants but can't be found anywhere else; like a +3 fire wand with 30+crit because I run a CoC build that needs level 23 Purity of Fire to sustain Righteous fire :/

I do not see why people have a problem with sellers asking 'offer'? The problem is lack of experience of both buyers and sellers, which can lead to a whole lot of paranoia that either one of you is being taken advantage of.

Been playing since closed beta and only just getting use to trading a lot this league, no b/o's on anything, like I want to spend the time trying to work out the value on several tabs of stuff and then adding b/o's, but with experience it becomes easier knowing what is 1-2c and what is 20c-90c, maybe next league setting b/o's for everything will be easier.

I ask offer simply hoping the buyer has an idea of value and will be fair with me.

Quickly learnt it is best to just move on your stuff as well, especially the average stuff, even if it is below apparent value, because really most stuff sits around for weeks and jockeying for some perfect price is not worth it in the long run.

What I do not get is the reactions from buyers sometimes, why is it so hard for people to compose themselves and just move on? Just this last few days had a heap of people asking me about a max fire dam%, max cast speed, tier1 life, mid tier mana and fire res two stone ring, best on xyz with this mod set, only two rings with the mod set and people can not believe I was asking 1ex for it, going on about it, some people offering 1-5c, some telling me they do not need the life. Today I sold it for the ex without discussion.

i trade perfectly fine.

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ventiman wrote:

so copy paste reddit texts is a thing now to get a bag of attention ?

Yup, multiple times now I've seen threads on these forums that were just copypastas of reddit comments from the PoE subreddit.