Trade System Overhaul

Would players rather trade P2P:

1. List it and forget it as a seller, buy-it-now online always anytime as the buyer.

2. Face-to-Face (in person and in same game, open trade windows like its 1997).

3. Something else? Please share your ideas if so!!

I'm wondering how others think about trading? I for one am an option 1 player. Amazon and Ebay ruined me for life!

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If I have to trade I would rather #1. I just don't want to deal with sending messages to busy/afk players or dealing with trade manipulation/bots. It's a miserable experience.

That said I would prefer an SSF option that lets me opt-out of trade to get better drops and have a meaningful crafting system that was not overly convoluted and confusing.

Ofc #1 or modified #3, it will make the economy much faster and easier especially when we are talking about midleague when some players left the game but they have items for sell in stash tabs. Also, it will be a huge buff for legion farmers, blight farmers, sanctum runners, juiced t17 farmers and other players to not be bothered by 1c trades.

I would like to sell some items for 1c, but if it means that I need to use portal on t17 I would rather not to, because I could lost more.

Another example:
I was farming legions in settlers league and have the tab full of timeless jewels. I left the game in September and comeback in May to test titanic scarab + blight for private league farm and I've got the trade message for forgotten and abandoned timeless jewel I had.
Me after I have quit the league don't care for how much my jewels are selling, even if someone buy them for 1c it's okay. But one guy would like to buy the exact one timeless jewel I had and haven't an ability to buy it, it's kind of sad.

Thus jewels not taken out of the economy completely could be a reason why some players could play the game longer. And it's not about the jewels, but unique items, skill gems, clusters and etc. Me myself left the private league because people which were selling amulet I need left the game

If GGG don't want to remove face 2 face trade completely - they could add an option to enable offline trade after one month or just make an option to select how exactly you want to sell your item.

Some leagues are living for 1-2 month, but if we are living in a world where POE1 league will be existing for 4 months - we should have a QoL feature like offline trade that makes leagues live longer.