I have just got home from being to cyprus for 14 days, and ive been away from theese forums for almost 3 weeks.
Now when i log in, just the galaxy pub has 16! pages where as 90%+++ is crappy trade posts that should have its own sub-forum, now
i have to sift thru all 16 pages to try find the real posts (I.E NOT trade posts).

You just try stay away from the forums 14+ days and then try to find something in here... its horrible

almost makes you want to take a vacation after seeing all that work, huh?

(slightly off topic)
I would like to see a trade area in-game with a sort of escrow like setup. Both players would send items and they would be help in limbo until the payment was received. If no payment, then its returned after a period of time. So far, I've only had one (wouldn't even call it bad, so extremely slow) dealing, but this would prevent any chance of taking the items and running

Good Idea!

I don't know. Seems like it would be a lot of work for Dan to implement. I think you should just be careful who you trade with and make sure they have plenty of time and as of yet I have not had anyone run off with any merchandise, and I trade with many players who, like me, just go ahead and send full payment because they trust the other.

Now just a regular forum for trading I agree with.

+1, not to the escrow, that is too much unnecessary work, but at least to a separate trade section in the forum. I like many others trade often and given ct lab implementation and base implementation the volume of trading has shot up tenfold. Trading is really outgrowing the galaxy pub category and needs its own dedicated category. I try to delete my threads after trading has completed, but I think we can all agree that the pub is rapidly being overwhelmed with trading posts.