We all know that Trading within the COE coimmunity is a big thing...it happens..but we have no real way to do it without risking getting scammed...so...my suggestion is as follows:
An actual official trading platform...
Look at it like this for how it works:
Person A: Initiate trade with Person B
Person B: Sees what person A is offering and makes their trade offer
Person A: Sees what person B has offered in return and offers to "lock in" the trade
Person B: Agrees to also "lock in the trade" once everything is confirmed to be correct...
Trade complete
With that, we have a system where we can officially trade with other players (which is a fun thing to do)...and if your trade didn't contain the items you wanted...you can't go crying to SBS because there were failsafes in place to only allow you to complete a trade if it was 100% what you wanted (on both sides).
Don't know what else to add to this, so...
--Kynlo