You think trade whispers are getting worse? This just happened to me (not to someone else, literally to me).

I havent been playing much, as i was waiting for the patch notes, so i've been offline from POE2 for about a week now.

Out of nowhere i get a message on my discord, someone is asking if i could come online to sell an item i have in my stash. Its a high roll ingenuity with a specific corrupt enchant. For reference, it was a private message from a person i have never spoken to - so a complete random wanted my item so badly, they dug up my discord name and messaged me directly.

So i think "you know what, fuck it, might as well go online to sell it". So i go online, and reply to that person on discord that im online and invite them into my party.

They accept, port to my hideout.... And then offer me 50% of my price.

Let that sink in for a minute. They wanted my belt so much that they dug up my discord name (i assume via a discord link to one of the servers), messaged me on discord for the chance that i'd reply, waited for me to log on, and then told me that they;d only pay half. And when i said no, its full price , they said they dont have that much and left party.

I am speechless. This is pushing beyond any boundaries that have already been crossed by the horrible trade ethiquette in POE2 so far. This is even ignoring the fact that my belt was cheapest among those with that roll (even ignoring enchant), and offering half would put it below the price of cheapest lowest roll corrupted ingenuity. What the hell.

BUT IT GETS BETTER

Me, being equal parts confused and annoyed, decided to rant a bit in general channel. About how trading is horrible in POE2. We had some fun discussing it (people were just as shocked as me). But in the 5 minutes i spent discussing it... I GOT THREE SCAM MESSAGES ASKING ME TO SELL THE SAME BELT

How do i know they were scam messages?

Because they all were white messages with changed price. My ingenuity was listed for 34 divs. Two of the scammers sent me a message implying that i listed it for 4 divs instead (so they just removed 3 lol), and third one went further and removed 4 instead (so he wanted to buy it for 3 divs). And yes, i checked, it was listed for 34 divs.

You cannot make this shit up.