Buying Items with the Auto-Trade System

The buying process has also been streamlined but Path of Exile 2 Currency includes an important new twist.

Search the trade site.

As always, you’ll begin by looking up the item you want on PoE’s official trade portal.

Click “Secure Item.”

Instead of generating a whisper message, you’ll see a new button. Clicking it teleports you to the seller’s hideout.

Complete the trade.

Ange opens a trade window where you can see all the items the seller has listed. Simply put the required currency in your inventory and confirm the purchase.

Pay the extra Gold fee.

In addition to the item’s listed price (such as Chaos Orbs or Divine Orbs), buyers also need to pay Gold.

This extra cost serves as the balancing mechanism, preventing unrestricted flipping while still offering unmatched convenience.

Why Add a Gold Cost?

Grinding Gear Games is careful about maintaining economic stability in PoE. Completely frictionless trading would create problems: bots, flippers, and market manipulators could dominate even more aggressively than they do now.

By requiring Gold (a new universal currency in PoE2) for every transaction, GGG ensures:

Players must still engage with content to earn Gold, preventing purely market-driven gameplay.

Flipping becomes riskier since every transaction carries a tax.

Gold retains value as both a gameplay resource and POE 2 Exalted Orbs for sale an economic gate.

This is a clever way to preserve the spirit of PoE’s trade economy while addressing its biggest quality-of-life issues.