Question about trading in general

I'd say it depends on the level of trust you put in the other party and the value of the trade.

For example, if you're trading pgems or low runes with a well known person here that has a high trust score, I wouldn't think twice about just dropping the items on the Ground.

For additional safety, perhaps because you don't quite trust the other person or you're uncomfortable with the concept of drop trades (which is quite reasonable, it's natural to be sceptic), you can split the trades into smaller volumes. For example, for pgems you could trade them in batches of 40 per

Ist (or whatever they're going for at the moment), and then swap back the all the

Ist runes for the intended total offer.

For some items you don't have much choice - I'm thinking specifically about trading unidentified torches and annis in large quantities. Since you can only hold them one at a time, drop trades is pretty much the only option (well, you can technically do the split trade thing here as well, one anni/torch at a time, but not many people have enough small "currency" to do that many mini-trades only to flip it all back after). I've actually done this a lot (for example, 30 unid annis per

Jah has been common during the later half of the current ladder season), but I'm always careful about the trust level of the other party. So far I haven't been scammed. That's not to say it will never happen though of course, there's always some risk involved.

I'd strongly advise against conducting drop trades with random people that you encounter in-game (i.e., when the trade wasn't initiated here or on another trading site). That's just asking to lose your items.

Fiso wrote: 1 year ago

But now most of us are (way) over 30 years. Imagine you still trying to scam people in a nearly 25 year old game that age. Would be ridiculous no?

It still happens. Some people still try to pull the switcheroo (like swap a

Tal Rasha's Guardianship for a gemmed

Gothic Plate after closing and re-opening trade window, or replacing a unique ring with a magic one), there are stories about that now and then even today. And if you search these forums you'll find plenty of topics about people being scammed in various ways. And that's just the tip of the iceberg - the majority of D2R players aren't even on these forums in the first place.

I guess that even though the majority of people who liked scamming others when they were younger/kids and have grown out of that, there are still people who enjoy it in adulthood and will seize any opportunity to take advantage of others. It doesn't hurt to be wary, especially when dealing with high value trades.