I Don't Understand POE Trade

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Phrazz wrote:

2) Always arrange your trade search based on when the item was put on trade, especially regarding low currency trade. A seller that JUST put a 5c item up on trade is more likely to answer, than a person that put the same 5c item up saven days ago.

actually, no. Most of the time i put in items just before opening the next map. So mostly shortly after this thing comes visible on trade i will be in a map. Just spam people, the person who is currently in the Hideout will answer eventually. Shitty system, but it is what it is.

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Haqutta wrote:

Why does it seem like the first 10 to 15 sellers listed do not want to trade? For instance, a Divine orb is shown as selling around 218 Chaos. The players at 220, 219, AND 218 do not actually sell.

Because high through put trade items like that and maps have so many people wanting them that the seller gets spammed to fuck and may just miss your whisper or they might have already sold their stock.

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lagwin1980 wrote:

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Haqutta wrote:

Why does it seem like the first 10 to 15 sellers listed do not want to trade? For instance, a Divine orb is shown as selling around 218 Chaos. The players at 220, 219, AND 218 do not actually sell.

Because high through put trade items like that and maps have so many people wanting them that the seller gets spammed to fuck and may just miss your whisper or they might have already sold their stock.

This + price fixers are a thing. So when you combine both and add people who "wont answer because they are mapping and you need to catch them inbeetween maps" then you have one of the worst trading experience you can find in ARPG.

It really is sad to set down for a good farm strategy only to find out that no one answers the trade messages and you can't buy the scarabs. They make this game balanced around trade and then let it suck so hard that it's not useable.

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tsunamikun wrote:

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Phrazz wrote:

2) Always arrange your trade search based on when the item was put on trade, especially regarding low currency trade. A seller that JUST put a 5c item up on trade is more likely to answer, than a person that put the same 5c item up saven days ago.

actually, no. Most of the time i put in items just before opening the next map. So mostly shortly after this thing comes visible on trade i will be in a map. Just spam people, the person who is currently in the Hideout will answer eventually. Shitty system, but it is what it is.

Sounds like poor planning to me. Why would you try to sell stuff while you are busy? Put all your stuff in a dump tab and list it while you are doing stuff in your hideout (crafting, gambling, expedition vendors, etc)

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Piousqd wrote:

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tsunamikun wrote:

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Phrazz wrote:

2) Always arrange your trade search based on when the item was put on trade, especially regarding low currency trade. A seller that JUST put a 5c item up on trade is more likely to answer, than a person that put the same 5c item up saven days ago.

actually, no. Most of the time i put in items just before opening the next map. So mostly shortly after this thing comes visible on trade i will be in a map. Just spam people, the person who is currently in the Hideout will answer eventually. Shitty system, but it is what it is.

Sounds like poor planning to me. Why would you try to sell stuff while you are busy? Put all your stuff in a dump tab and list it while you are doing stuff in your hideout (crafting, gambling, expedition vendors, etc)

Why wouldn't I do that? I'm always busy, if I'm online. And i don't care for interruptions while crafting, so the best method would be for other people to catch me after a map. It works well enough for low price things and for high price things I portal out anyway. I don't see the advantage to work through a dumb tab vs. doing it right away.

The easiest way to fix price fixing is to make it automatically sellable once put out for trade

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Kentan_ wrote:

The easiest way to fix price fixing is to make it automatically sellable once put out for trade

Not everything someone dislikes needs to be fixed.