Have you also noticed that there are fewer trades for "crafting materials" lately?

Hi

Currently, it seems to me that there are very few trades buying

Perfect Skull,

Ral,

Perfect Amethyst,

Hel or

Perfect Ruby
(softcore, non-ladder)

A few months ago, I could easily find trades to sell my extra materials (I rarely needed to create a self trade to sell them)..., but in the last weeks it's been hard to find any...

Does anyone else share this sentiment? Any ideas of the reason?

Imo those are hella easy to find so most likely botters find them in such large numbers they are cheaply bought off of them elsewhere so less people rely on using the trading section of this website. I could be terribly wrong but this is just what I believe atm. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A likely reason for fewer crafting material trades is there are far fewer people playing the game. Remember when you could logon to join Cows, Chaos, Tombs, and WSK runs? Now you would be lucky to find one. I stopped stopped collecting Rals and Pgems months ago. I still pickup

Hel runes and Amethysts, but the people I used to trade with have left the game so now I use them for my own crafts or trade them for Keys.