Gold cost for trading is punishing for early game.

Before I would trade for things once I got a lucky drop and can afford stuff, but now since everyone is just listing for the instant shop the pool of people actually doing manual no gold cost trades is very low. Going through campaign now when uniques and cheap rares are abundant I can't buy any of them even if I can afford them because I simply don't have enough gold. There really need to be a way to mitigate this as this system was suppose to help casual players. Instead it turbo charges the elites.

I suggest you have a daily free gold cost trade limit. Or trade discount for like 3-5 trades per day below a certain gold threshold. Allow us to tick the trade we want this to apply to. This way it will help still allow players to interact with the market early without being a major boon for those who are already set.

turbo charging the elites was the entire point.
they paid did they not? and now you must lest
you fall behind.

but rejoice! you were destined to fall behind.
it is part of the design. play poe2 instead.
fall behind for years in a different game!

doubt yourself!

I wish they would just remove asynchronous trade. It was a horrible idea and had ruined trading and item weight.