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THEN barter.vg rant
What the hell is wrong with these people?! I thought nothing could frustrate me anymore at barter.vg. Well, I was wrong.
I decided to get The Final Station, the game I thought buying long time ago, through bartering. There are over 200 people with that game for trade and it's quite cheap (1,40 € according to gg.deals). So, I offered a trade to half a dozen of people - the games from their wishlist in exchange for that one. Some of those people have barely 10 or 20 games to trade and... every last of them rejected the deal?! Wtf! Why do you even have a wishlist if you don't want the games from that list?! Or why do you even pretend you're a trader if you don't want games from your wishlist?!
Wtf is wrong with human logic? Or, more precisely, what is with the lack of their logic?
END barter.vg rant
As a long time (retired) barter user, take this with a grain of salt:
Wishlist does NOT mean want list. Wishlist is "if the offer is right" list.
Your valuation does not equal theirs, and taking rejections personally is a mistake.
Barter is designed to make quick and easy offers (such as the mass ones you may see) to find that one accepter in a sea of no's.
That said... the power users of the site, with thousands of trades, are for profit.
They reject your offer because they don't want fair, they want 1.5-2x return.
(BTW, it's not always based on current grey price. It's also by what they paid at the time they got it, which you have no way of knowing.)
You can easily find these by auditing their accepted history. Size people up before you send an offer.
If that offends you, blacklist them to hide them from your match list.
Trading is hard work, not a hobby. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
I left it and I haven't looked back. Stress and time better spent elsewhere.
Like <redacted> (user here you know very well) asking 200$ for "try until it works" duplicate keys of Dirt2. Yeah, no.
I believe there's a special place in hell for removed game scalpers.
