How to trade?

I'm old and highly regarded, apparently, but I can't figure out how to trade. I've hit the "whisper" button and contacted probably 50 different people to buy things. I can see the PM it sends them in game.

However, nobody has ever replied to me. Am I doing something wrong? do you normally just spam everyone selling something you want and hope somebody replies?

Sadly if you listens players and devs "spam everyone selling something you want and hope someone replies" is the best trade system ever and auction house is the worst.

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OpenSourcerer55#8680 wrote:

Am I doing something wrong? do you normally just spam everyone selling something you want and hope somebody replies?

Sadly, yes.

But, why sadly? it IS mentioned exact like that by devs.

So feel free to spam everyone around:
* Send requests to item's owner every several seconds, till he answer.
* Send several requests (dozens, actually) to different sellers (if their items are ok for you too) at once and then accept invite from the 1st who throw party invite at you. Ofc, don't even bother to say something to others, who might would also answer, but a bit later - next time they would be faster!

That's how tradiong is mentioned and going in the POE (1&2)

That... is a bad system.

It would take almost no work at all to modify the website where if they list the exact price, instead of whisper let me just click the button and buy it right then and there.

Wouldn't that make everyone happier? Don't even need to make an auction house... can just use existing infrastructure to do it.

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OpenSourcerer55#8680 wrote:

That... is a bad system.

It would take almost no work at all to modify the website where if they list the exact price, instead of whisper let me just click the button and buy it right then and there.

Wouldn't that make everyone happier? Don't even need to make an auction house... can just use existing infrastructure to do it.

"Wouldn't that make everyone happier?"
Normal players - yes


But all scums, like price fixers and price checkers would not, and since GGG supports them (no punishing = support), so it would never be changed.

I think the idea is that you should make your own gear, that's why there's a simple currency exchange ingame that works and not a gear one
This makes it so you only bother trading when you need something uber specific instead of trading when you find a ring with a 5% better roll than yours

We really need a action house or a direct buy form, spamming someone to hope they stop their stuff to sell u is outragious!

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CrazieGaRod#3623 wrote:

We really need a action house or a direct buy form, spamming someone to hope they stop their stuff to sell u is outragious!

An auction House will never happen, its been talked about to death since 2013 in PoE. Tho the Console has something like it...kinda. You want to sell something? You put it up for sale in your stash tab, the item sits in this bank thing and out of your actual stash tab and in a tab of "currently selling" or WTF its called. You can actually sell your things while you're not even playing. You will get a msg that "[ITEM] has sold for 'X' amount" or whatever. But trust me tho, searching for items in THAT trade system is god damn awful and the trade site connected to PoE1 and 2 is just so much better. Tho its been over a year or so since I last played on console so...
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Oh and trading on consoles is not even done via person to person, its all done via tabs.

Honestly the main reason I usually end up giving up on my characters is because I don't really understand or like the trade system. I play on console and it seems really sub adequate.