Trade is botted to hell from China and Russia. Wasting my time trying to trade

Trade is terrible. Nothing but Chinese and Russian bots buying and flipping then not ever inviting you. Im sitting here for over an hour trying to buy very simple items never getting invites and when i do they try to up the price. This trade system is actually a fucking joke. Im a first time poe player and i cant believe you make your players suffer like this man not gonna lie this shit is fucking bad bad. At least get these ching chong bots out of here ffs. Or, make a real trade system? Or is that too hard for you guys? Cant wait for the removal of this post but its the truth. Merry Christmas, go fuck yourselves.

sitting in my base for over an hour trying to buy simple items instead of playing the game like i would prefer to be doing. instead just dealing with China

UPDATE: I got invited by a real player finally after an hour of trying to buy something and guess what? My game freezes my entire pc when i get into loading screen. Done with this game for now. Fix the fucking load screen issues like what the actual hell is that man. I have to turn off my entire pc just because i wanted to trade somebody. You guys have fucking cancer, genuinely. Keep the $30 i spent on stash tabs you fucking scamming asses dogshit trade system China dick suckers

Honestly I'm about to be the same.

2 Hours, over 50-60 default send PM button clicks for various items and literally only 1 person responded back with "lmao"

I can handle most everything else, but the lack of ability to trade easily is causing me to quit the game and go play something fun instead of wasting my time.

The worst part is this may be the final design of the trading since the developers have made statements that they don't like the idea of Auction Houses/Grand Exchange type of trading. It's wild they want this archaic trading that was phased out of games over a decade ago.

Ive been trading alot and have not at all experienced the same, only a handful of times have there been silence and I would assume that the price that the seller set was too low so the seller gets spammed.

I can imagine however that theres alot of bots scraping for lowball trades cuz its on a website tho so if youre fishing for the same trades I can get your perspective.

5 days in a row without a succesfull transaction to buy something i need wich is popular but comes in plenty of offers.
Thing is even with the mouse ready on the whisper button and pressing F5 to see a new buyer the item is gone....

Around 750+ whispers and not a single answer back and even making a double offer on said item to no succes....

Its sucking the fun out of this game very fast as this is just a massive waiste of time.

I need certain items to progress and crafting isnt an option either as its just as bad....
Waisted so much materials to get a decent Amulet / Boots / Rings / and all bricked.

So sad GGG opted to choose these systems as they are not up to par with a Tripple A game.
I hope they will implement a vastly superior system then they have now as this is just pure torture.

Once the bulk of the players are reaching endgame and need better items many will quit out of frustration thats for sure.

Hope they will implement buy orders like in Eve Online or a system like in GW2 or even a modern auction house with antibot prevention so this game gets the growth it deserves !

So many things are awesome in PoE2, they layed down an awesome foundation to a fantastic game !

Lets hope GGG takes notice and see our frustration and revamp the trading / crafting so it becomes a 10/10 game.