Trade or Local Channel?

Hi guys! What is a PC Guru most concerned about? Trading of course! So my question to you guys is, do you use the trade channel or the local channel for your trading needs?

And there is an associated poll, so cast your votes!

Question:

Do you use the Trade Channel or the Local Channel?

Choices:

I use the Trade Channel exclusively
I use the Trade Channel mostly, but occasionally in Local Channel also
I use both channels about equally
I use the Local Channel mostly, but occasionally in Trade Channel also
I use the Local Channel exclusively
I do not use either channel
Merchant is my best friend
Pudding!

Again, sorry if I left anything out. Happy voting!

I use the Trade Channel exclusively

Neither. I rarely trade. I think I've traded something twice with strangers the entire time I've been playing. Otherwise, I only trade with players I know so we're generally using team or guild channel.

Merchant is my best friend
usually, if i buy something from other people, i will locate them through the trade channel, if i see someone selling what i want in the All channel, i ignore him.

other than that, when i find perfect stuff to sell, i usually give it to a guildie that pays a certain amount with discount. (lets say 40k) and then he will try to resell it to someone else later (lets say 60k) that way he gains money, i gain money, and we both are happy

Trade Channel exclusively.

The way I look at it, if I want to buy something, I turn on the trade channel and go to LA/Drok's/K.Center. If I'm selling something, why would I advertise to people that probably are not looking to buy anything by spamming the Local Chat? That's just a waste of my time and effort, and I've never had a problem selling in Trade. The ones with Trade on are the ones that want something. That's just common sense.

Pudding!

(No seriously, where is it?)

Great, milias and his/her polls.

Trade channel all the way. I make it a point to NOT buy from anyone on Local chat, and only sell in Trade. In fact, when I'm 'shopping', I turn local off. Period.

wow that reminds me of the crazy dude back in ascalon, ah the memories.

i went with pudding, but i go to heavy trade areas to find my needs so i use both. sticking to trade chat exclusively i commend u, but whats the point, i actually have it blocked out cause so little people use it anyways

think anet should focus on trade issues more, i mean we've been asking/whining/begging for solution for this since the game began( though i must say i didnt feel a need for one before we had trade merchants, made the game feel more raw.)

I use both equilly. Don't blame ME, blame how hard it is to use the trade channel and sell things Ahh, it's all good. I use chat channel because it's pretty much expected in certain towns.

I only use the trade channel. I buy it there and sell it there. If it doesn't buy or sell there then it goes to the merchant or storage until the next time I can stomach going through the vile WTS process.

I merchant or give away anything that I won't ever use. Never bought anything from another player, either. I'd rather give something nice away than be screwed out of it, and I'm too impatient to go get price checks and then go spend an hour trying to sell it.
I even had one guy tell me, "dude!you know what that fds is worth?"
I said "No, and I don't wanna know. just hit accept."

I'm not rich by a long shot, I probably wouldn't be able to afford a set of 15k armor, but I make enough money to get what I need. My playing time shouldn't consist of 1 hour trading per 6 hours playing.

I like Pudding!


Anyhow pudding was to good to pass up, but my second choice would be. "I use the Trade Channel mostly, but occasionally in Local Channel also"

Trade channel exclusively, I mean..come on that's what it was meant for non? :P

I voted trade channel exclusivly, I hate selling anything in game though so I only really sell the easy to sell things and merchant or give away the rest. If I get anything really expensive, (not that it happens very often) like the crystalline sword I'm selling at the moment, I sell out of game rather than stand there showing it to all the looky-loos and scammers.
I have to say though, the recent trade channel "improvements" have made things much worse than they used to be with all this W TS bs, I can't stand leaving local chat on in any outpost now, we really need dedicated trade districts or an auction house.

Bandaid approach to any "problem" sucks really... though, it's a small thing. Great thing is when an auction house IS implimented, it'll make the price of everything decrease dramatically... can't wait!

Certainly, it would fix the economy in much the same way (or more effective way) than the recent bannings, i must say. It's obviously easier to set up a banning protocol than an auction house...

i use trade channel to sell stuff but why do people get so mad when they see trade activity in local?

if trading occours in local and you complain about it because it bothers you...heh and whats up with paople that cry about caps? theyre just letters on the screen and they cant hurt you

I use a super spam bot that logs onto 5 accounts to spam both rapidly.

Pudding, because I think this poll is in no way representative for what I notice. Communications are a mess in this game. I recently joined a guild where they even post WT.S adds in the guild chat. After saying something about it, he called me a nag.

I trade rarely, but when I do I use trade channel, after two minutes im sick of it and go to guru auction.

I don't really care if someone does a "W TS" in the local, just for God's sake don't do it every 10 seconds. Really, if you want to spam-trade go to the district 1 town. If there's only 8 other people in some dist6 town chances are nobody wants to buy your crap, even(especially) after the 10th time you spammed it.

I just wish they would give us more "ignore" spots. Ten doesn't even begin to do it.