Originally posted by MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™:

Originally posted by swerve:

Once again, you are not catching my drift. I know there are tonnes of people who don't bother reading, however, the main problem is that they don't understand which side of the trade is the selling/buying side.

Yep failing a low bar intelligence test :P There are even arrows on the page...


Many times people add and just leave you on there adds after they get what they want from someone else too, then they fail to answer chat... because like I said before, like the person who doesn't flush in public rest rooms, when they are done, they no longer care about anything.

That happens all the time, especially when I'm sleeping...

Originally posted by Skaboomatude:

its not that they dont understand its that they dont care and are lazy. I post dont random add me with a link to trade offers, I get tons of random adds. I post that I am not selling items not listed, I get offers for items not listed. Plain and Simple, people are lasy and dont care to read no matter how short and simple it is. I finally had to post several times in caps on each trade to not be added and for trade offers to be used before people actually got it :(

Once again, you are not catching my drift. I know there are tonnes of people who don't bother reading, however, the main problem is that they don't understand which side of the trade is the selling/buying side.

Originally posted by Terminus:

Just found this ad - http://www.tf2outpost.com/trade/16264768

Plenty of writing
Plenty of rules :)

Also it's not exactly the main problem I was trying to get at. The fact that people don't understand how outpost works is a larger concern.

Originally posted by Terminus:

When people create trades - they expect others to read each and every word. My question - do you do the same for every single trade you come across.

A trade should be easy to understand at a glance. Keep things simple for quick traders - and interesting enough for traders who like to go through the entire post.

It's a skill that takes time to perfect - not exactly difficult though :)

"Also, the amount of people who don't remove items when they have sold/bought them is insanely high and is incredibly annoying" - I tend to use the report function quite a lot recently - It's now much more effective.

I understand what you are saying, but I really don't put much writing in my trades. In fact the only time I ever wrote a serious amount of writing was when selling my backpack.

And generally yes, I do read most trades just to make sure and to check their prices.

As for the report function, I didn't know that was a legitimate reason, but now I do.

Seriously. I have been an outpost user for nearing on two years. In the past couple of months, the amounts of random users adding me on steam without reading the trade notes is constantly increasing.

But my major concern is the fact that people don't know how outpost works.

The left hand side is what the person is selling (it should always be). The right hand side is what they are looking for. Outpost has always been like this. Either complete imbeciles are joining outpost or people genuinely cannot follow logic.

EDIT: Also, the amount of people who don't remove items when they have sold/bought them is insanely high and is incredibly annoying.

The "Search" and "+"//"NewTrade" functions are very unreliable for me (sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't) - just wondering if anybody is sharing the same problem