Trade experience is garbage

Trading bots are great for the game. They are prompt, reliable and trustworthy.

The mapping+trading bots are cancer. They underpin RMT, and have a major impact on the poe softcore economy.

The programmers of these bots have a single motivation: to make as much real money as possible from the game. They don't care at all about the game, the community, GGG, or anyone other than themselves.

They are almost impossible to eradicate.

So I can't see this changing, as they use such sophisticated botting software. Each bot has dozens and dozens of parameters to customise it. Most of them map for a period of time out amount of loot, and then sell it all. Rinse and repeat.

I was alt-tabbing because I was shopping at poe trade then someone whispered me (99% sure it was a trade whisper) so I alt-tab back to game then I crashed. Unfortunately, I lost a big potential trade/sale.