Lost 80+ divine in bulk buying nightmare maps because of "mines landing" trade scam + SUGGESTION GGG

I guess I am not the only one and that other people got scammed, but this is a warning for others players too:

Buying maps in bulks too quickly under the pressure of others players buying them before you, then buying 1 for 41 divines instead of 41 chaos, because the seller -deliberately mixed up price on the whole tab of 12x12- full of maps with different prices: 41c, 42c, etc 47c then 1/10 42c (which is a good price) is 42 D instead. So this was definitely made up to steal people.

There is a warning but it's not so easy to distinguish the difference in-between the CHAOS icon and the DIVINE icon, especially when rushing for bulk.

GGG's Path of Exile just reminded me how sad and pathetic people can act to each others. Letting you consider how it hurts the feeling about the whole game, point to waste more time with it, and about buying more MTXs.

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SUGGESTION: HIGH/EXCEPTIONAL TRADE VALUE MSGBOX OPTION:
Introduce a configurable warning option when a transaction superior to X divine(s)/main currency equivalent is about to happen; a threshold somehow. Faustus will easily know this said equivalent btw, when he's not busy making his cut.

Agreed, and even with the existing warning, if the specific map you clicked on to visit hideout is gone, the rest of the tab won't give you any warnings (or it's still buggy). So even without mixing up all the prices it's still very easy to get landmined. A couple landmines and I lost all desire to continue playing after having days of farming disappear in an instant.

Edit: My preferred solution, in addition to an improved warning system, is allowing you to either:
a) 'lock' currency in a tab/tabs that cannot be used for trading or
b) have a feature to flag a tab as useable for settling trades (much like affinities are a flag for where to send loot).

This will give a much larger level of protection to all future abuse strategies that people think of by simply allowing players to only make a reasonable amount of my currency available for transactions to begin with.

I have definitely seen this warning popping up when I try to buy something else that is of different price than the one I travelled for, so I can vouch that it exists. It saved me a few from a few landmines when I was farming invitations.
Whether or not it is bugged in some condition I can not say. Last time I saw it pop up is today.

Other than that, a few suggestions for you:
1. Put the price you are expecting into your regex. For example: "7 chaos", it will dim out the div mines. This however do not save you from chaos mines such as "777 chaos", which is where the second point come into play if you can implement it.
2. Hide your currency somewhere. For example, list a few mirror purchasing with your current currency, keep the rate exorbitant so no one will take it. For example, if you have 1000 divs, try set an order of 10 mirror with 1000 divs. Only keep a small amount of tradable currency on you when doing bulk buying.

thats the fate of those that will close their eyes and blindly click to save 1c per item

i do not know what makes people - wealthy people mind you - to be so reckless just to save 10c when they are spending thousands per buy bulk. i honestly do not know

sure, add rail-guards. but current system is imo fine, there is a FAT WARNING that you have to dismiss to continue.

if youve wasted 80divs that means youve done it at least TWICE. and this, i actually cannot understand

Just type in !divine every time you go for bulk buys like maps. It will hide all the items listed in divines. Not ideal since the landminers will probably come up with different "solutions" such as landmining for 400c instead of 40c or something equally shitty.

But at least you'll notice if it's a div instead of chaos listing...better than nothing.

Sometimes when there's something I know I'll be buying for the rest of the league, I search that item in shops listed for the same price in div instead of chaos i.e. if a map costs 40c I'll look for people listing the map as 40d and ignore them to make sure they don't pop up in my search bar again. Sure maybe not the best strategy, and ofc it doesn't cover near half of them. Maybe I lose on items or whatever, but it feels good to hit the ignore button on this scum.

I understand the frustration when that happens and actually its pretty easy to landmine someone. A solution would really be appreciated, but i also have to say that this never happened to me, just because i only buy 15-20 maps and watch closely. Just because i know there are landmines and many times i had sellers that have different prices for every single map. They try to force you to ignore the warning and make a mistake.
Sometimes when i buy maps there is someone else that buys all the maps in seconds, but i dont care then, i just go to the next seller.

I can only tell everyone be carefull when you buy items or maps and watch closely. And avoid spam clicking everything in the tab to be fast or faster then some other buyer. Just chill take your time.

no normal map is worth over 1d. red flag any seller with map over that price.

GGG making this game worse and worse in so many ways, just so players jump ship to PoE2.

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shardklaw#0080 wrote:

GGG making this game worse and worse in so many ways, just so players jump ship to PoE2.

How exactly is GGG making the game worse? If anything, the direction has been the opposite, especially with async trade, which is clearly designed to reduce friction and make trade interactions easier.

What keeps getting overlooked is how much of the issue comes down to player behavior, specifically the habit of skimming instead of actually reading. A lot of people don’t process what is in front of them. They glance over item stats, ignore small but important details, and rush through confirmations as if nothing could possibly go wrong. At that point, it is not a failure of the system, it is a failure to engage with it properly.

This has always been the case, long before async trade was even a thing. Players would zone out, click through trades on autopilot, and fall for the most obvious bait simply because they did not take a second to verify what they were accepting. That pattern has not changed, the only difference is that now the system itself is more structured and less prone to actual manipulation.

If someone sets up these so called “landmines,” whether intentionally or not, and others walk straight into them because they chose to skim instead of read, it is hard to shift that blame onto the developer. At some point, taking two seconds to actually look at what you are doing is part of the responsibility of playing the game. And if someone profits off players refusing to do even that, then honestly, it is not exactly surprising how that turns out.

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shardklaw#0080 wrote:

GGG making this game worse and worse in so many ways, just so players jump ship to PoE2.

You guys wanted this trading system, you got exactly what you were asking for. Players not being literate isn't GGG's fault - it isn't hard to read and double check before clicking on things. Especially when currency is involved.