Punishment needed for fake traders

It appears the market is currently over-run with fake traders - people posting things at low prices with no intention of ever selling them.

Their goal is to get others to also post that item at too low a price, then snap it up and resell it at a higher price.

There needs to be some sort of punishment/trade lock out system for not selling a posted item or responding to trade requests, I can't think of another way to solve this without implementing a buy-on-click system, which I know GGG has stated they'll never do.

As an alternative punishment, I think a swift quick in the nuts would do.

However, I think shadow-banning their listings if they reach a certain threshold of trade requests ignored would be slightly easier to implement.

Edit:

If anyone can explain the issue with hiding an item from trade searches that has 100+ whispers from individual players in a given time period, with no responses from the poster, I'm all ears. I don't believe a compelling reason has been given yet (other than from our token price fixer).

Great idea, my friend. I think GGG will surely create a whole department to monitor trade for possibility of someone being a mean mean person

That is price fixing, it always existed in PoE1, unfortunately I find it difficult to find a solution. In PoE1 there is generally a base price that one sets from "poe ninja" or the discord server "tft"

I had to whisper over 100+ people to get a 1Ex Unique horrible experience.
PoE needs WOW-like AH. D2 FG websites worked better than PoE trade. This is unacepptable.

An auction house would be cool.

You can still price fix with an auction house. It won't stop the problem though it will make trading easier.

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AliquamGames#5952 wrote:

Great idea, my friend. I think GGG will surely create a whole department to monitor trade for possibility of someone being a mean mean person

Found the price fixer lol.

Also, this has nothing to do with "being mean", but on the topic, this may help with your reading comprehension:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FexV4DfG1Bc

Price fixing on an AH requires risk. There is no risk when you can list a fake price and just ignore buyers. That's the problem.

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Kirana#3430 wrote:

Price fixing on an AH requires risk. There is no risk when you can list a fake price and just ignore buyers. That's the problem.

This is exactly it, the current system allows you to put an item out at an absurdly low price with 0 skin in the game.

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Kirana#3430 wrote:

Price fixing on an AH requires risk. There is no risk when you can list a fake price and just ignore buyers. That's the problem.

There's also the second type of price fixing, which is an item monopoly. A group of people can instantly buy out all of a popular item, then re-list it at any price they want. AH would make this infinitely worse.