What an offer carries
Cash goes either direction. The form asks which side adds it.
Cash is recorded as text. Trade Post takes no payments and links to no payment
site.
One offer at a time
You can hold one open offer per listing. A second is refused: change or withdraw the one you have first. Declining or retracting frees the slot. Accepting keeps it. The listing’s own offer bar tells you where yours stands without opening the hub, and turns into Open your offer.States
Discussing is the lister ordering their own inbox. It posts nothing and the
offerer never sees it.
Either side can accept when it is their move. Only the lister can
decline, and they can do it at any time, whoever’s move it is.
Terminal means final. A declined offer cannot be reopened and an accepted one
cannot be declined. Making a new offer is what replaces any of them.
Countering
Either side can counter, up to six rounds. Every round is a permanent public reply. At six rounds the Counter button disappears. Accept, Decline and Retract all stay live. Carry on in the thread, or retract and make a fresh offer. The button is also absent when it is not your move. The app says which of those it is. A counter can drop items or add them. A lister countering can only add items the offerer has on a live listing post, and only where the subreddit publishes inventories. Where it does not, or where the offerer has nothing posted, a lister can drop staked items but not add to them.Taking one back
Retract is yours until the lister accepts. It releases your slot on the listing and leaves the negotiation thread standing. Deleting your own comment does not. Once an offer is accepted there is no retracting it. The way out is backing out of the trade, which is a different act with a different cost.What the other side sees
Accepting, declining and retracting each post a reply in the thread, as you. Reddit asks permission the first time, the same way it does for a listing. Marking an offer as discussing posts nothing.Notes
- An offer expires after 30 days, fixed from when it was made and never extended by activity. It is the shortest record in the app after your saved details. See what is kept.
- You can only stake available items. Anything traded or held by an open trade is left out.
- An offer with nothing on your side is refused. Items, cash, or both.
- There is no in-app messaging. The comment thread is the conversation, and every row has a Thread link to it.
- Accepting starts a trade and holds both sides’ items.