Guild Wars 2

How can I sell items to people without having to blindly trust them?

I just now announced in /map that I was selling a couple of dyes, someone tell me they’ll buy it for 2s, I say ok, he tells me to send it to him, I send it to him, he says he sent the money(yeah right). I sigh and die a little inside.

Is there a way to do C.O.D (cash on delivery) or something like that? If not, why on earth not? It’s a no-brainer.

If you put it in the trading post he could buy it there. TP can be accessed from anywhere.

Black Lion Trading Post – you have a huge customer base (world wide) and no need to spend time finding a buyer, just bung it up on the Trading Post (press O) and away you go.

Not to mention that with this method you can’t be banned for days because you unknowingly traded with a hacked account.

There is no player to player trade in this game, and going by Arenanets latest comments, there never will be.

Who knows the exact reason why, but rumour suggests that when they ditched their first engine and decided to remake it, there simply wasnt enough time to introduce one, and to add it now would mean a major redesign of the core engine.

sigh people are so dishonest today. have to steal 2 silver?!

The point is the lack of person to person trading is about the stupidest thing I have ever seen in any mmo. What is the point of not having it, to discourage gold sellers and people who buy from those services? Clearly that worked….. sarcasm. Gold sellers are going to find a way to sell and transfer gold to their buyers whether you remove player to player trading or not, removing it from the game out right serves no real purpose and in the long run just make more work for the gm’s because now they have to sort through chat logs to see and prove what kind of deal was made and sort through mail transactions to prove if both sides held up whatever their end of whatever deal was made.

News flash the TP isn’t all that or what they seem to make it out to be. Yes it is slightly better then other auction houses in other mmo’s but only by a very small amount to which is almost unnoticeable

Its because they want to force you to use the TP. People can still trade using the mail but your right you can be scammed. It doesnt stop gold sellers, all they do is mail you the gold. It made the gold sellers lifer easier or at least the person recieving the gold, they can always play stupid and say they have no idea where it came from and how would Anet prove other wise they cant lol.
With the old trade button Anet could look back and see what was traded and the value of the in game item and have proof that they traded gold straight up with nothing in return or the item the gold buyer gave the gold seller was junk. The old system wasnt perfect but like so many things in this game its a step backwards from the old.

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Its because they want to force you to use the TP. People can still trade using the mail but your right you can be scammed. It doesnt stop gold sellers, all they do is mail you the gold. It made the gold sellers lifer easier or at least the person recieving the gold, they can always play stupid and say they have no idea where it came from and how would Anet prove other wise they cant lol.
With the old trade button Anet could look back and see what was traded and the value of the in game item and have proof that they traded gold straight up with nothing in return or the item the gold buyer gave the gold seller was junk. The old system wasnt perfect but like so many things in this game its a step backwards from the old.

^This.

I love how you can remove key elements from a mmo that from the number of post on these forums on the subject, the majority (if only a majority by a small margin) seem to want and call it new and groundbreaking.

It is neither new or groundbreaking and has removed any sort of sense of accomplishment or sense of pride most people have in their characters. It’s the equillavent of me slapping a new coat of paint on your piece of kitten car and then trying to convince you it is a new car all together