In game trade channel is Completly fucked up

nothing can be sold or purchased anymore,
just billions of spam messages,


cant even purchase 200 wisdom scrolls for overpriced 4 alchs




if i try to sell mahori 6 link for 10 ex i might get 2 whispers


honestly, ggg


if i have to waste 30 minutes in spamming trade channel jsut to purchase a few wisdom scrolls, there is no fun anymore

You refuse to acknowledge the market prices.

If I offer 1 chaos for 200 scrolls in chat, only sometimes people whisper. If I offer 1 chaos for 160 scrolls in chat, I get multiple whispers within the minute.

Conclusion: The scrolls to chaos ratio is more probably close to 160:1 then 200:1.

Market prices do fluctuate over time. Just watch the news, and you'll notice it is a real-life thing.

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GoedeWiet wrote:

You refuse to acknowledge the market prices.

If I offer 1 chaos for 200 scrolls in chat, only sometimes people whisper. If I offer 1 chaos for 160 scrolls in chat, I get multiple whispers within the minute.

Conclusion: The scrolls to chaos ratio is more probably close to 160:1 then 200:1.

Market prices do fluctuate over time. Just watch the news, and you'll notice it is a real-life thing.

4 alcs is more than the ratio you quoted.

I agree with OP. You cannot sell stuff anymore, or trade currency, without exceptional difficulty on standard. Trade spam shouldn't equate to a raise in economic pricing, that itself, is one of the games greatest flaws currently.

I agree with the OP, except I think everything is overpriced.

Random rares that I used to buy for like 3-5 chaos are now being listed at insane prices, and everyone seems okay with it.

You want a chest piece with 80+ life and one or two resists? Gonna cost you a few Exalted somehow, even though rolling your own is basically cheaper at this point.

As a case study, I found someone selling Reduced Mana and offered him 3 Alchs, 1 Chaos, and 1 Regal. Mad overpay. He responds back with "3 Chaos and 1 Regal and we have a deal"

I've given up trading or bartering, I only keep the chat open so that I can see if people are selling with low buyouts on stuff I want. Happens every so often, I figure they are reasonable people who played months ago.

I really think Onslaught is to blame for some of it, those people think every item with a gold name is worth 10 chaos minimum.

I never say this, but I'll make an exception just this once:
you are probably the last PoE player who can complain about trade, iBase.

trade chat is indeed in a bad shape, though.

It is ridiculous how long GGG has allowed broken aspects of the game to persist.

a cooldown timer would help a bit I think - sometimes the chat scrolls past too fast to be of any use, especially when people spam the same big blob of list of uniques etc.

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Bex_GGG wrote:

Hey guys,

I'm sorry to hear that you're frustrated by the current trade system. We are working on improvements for this but I am not yet able to confirm when these will occur. If you have any feedback on what you'd like to see please let us know! We appreciate any ideas that you may have.

I'm not sure there's gonna be much you guys can do. I think there are just a lot of hardcore market players out there. Buy low, sell high... even when the prices make no sense. Especially after Onslaught dumped into Hardcore, it's been nothing but a bunch of temp sellers trying to sell each and every rare and unique for 10 chaos or more.

Too many people trying to get rich by flipping, I guess. But it ruins the trade experience for some of us. Honestly, the only thing GGG could do would ensure that legacy items and league-specific uniques are kept to a minimum, because a lot of that stuff gives people incentive to buy cheap on the 4 month league, horde stuff and then try to sell for 3x the price on the parent league.

EDIT: I know you guys are working on ways to shop more easily - maybe a trade board or something. I think if there was a way to view items in-game or search the forum boards from in-game or something it would help. I know you most people don't want an Auction House style thing, but if I could just browse for items that people list in some sort of public trade board and at least PM them to offer I think that would help a lot.

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MildlyClever wrote:

a cooldown timer would help a bit I think - sometimes the chat scrolls past too fast to be of any use, especially when people spam the same big blob of list of uniques etc.

THIS. When i see the trade window with some people posting crap uniques in lists of like 20 pieces every 15 seconds i wanna punch them in the face. 1 or 2 minutes cooldown would be great.