You on the other hand have a different opinion and think there are unfair trades.
I never said that. Fine to argue with my statements, but don't make up false statements. What I did say is that some guilds have rules on what is a fair trade, and that some trades posted break those rules. [I've argued before that trade guidelines need review and discussion.]
You stated that the person posting a trade was responsible for the buyer getting “screwed”. If there is no such thing as an unfair trade, how could anyone get “screwed” ? Again, you contradict yourself.
That is absolute and total rubbish. Guildmembers have access to every trade you post. Saying you will always trade fair to them is incorrect. Problem is they expect you to do so and in expecting it, they get screwed by you.
You claim that unfair trades don’t exist in one post, then contradict yourself by saying someone is “incorrect” in claiming their posted trades were fair. Above, you argued that it was “rubbish” and ‘incorrect” for the poster to claim they only make fair trades.
So, what is it? How can those trades be unfair, if unfair trades don’t exist?
You keep contradicting yourself,
My personal opinion was quite clear: regardless of where a trade is posted, and regardless of whether that trade meets any guild’s particular rules on what a "fair" trade is,
it is solely the responsibility of the buyer for making the trade. If they get less value than they wanted, the buyer, and the buyer alone is responsible. Not the seller.
Very often, in this and other FOE forums, when a person complains about a bad outcome from doing something in FoE, they are told it is their fault. The feedback usually is they went too fast, did not understand the game well enough, did not read instructions or FOE announcements, carefully enough, etc. etc. And, for the most part, I agree with that. It is a game with some complexities, and it takes time to learn, and it is the responsibility of a player to learn the rules.
If a person can’t figure out what fair trade is, they should avoid trading until they do. If they go too fast and blindly accept any trade, they learnt a valuable lesson: slow down and assess the value of the trade before buying it. If they find a person consistently posts
poor value trades (maybe more accurate than “unfair”), or trades that go against guild rules, they learned another important lesson: who not to trust. But the most important lesson is that they, and they alone, are responsible for their decisions and choices.
