Be wary of players asking to buy Aya

Earlier today a friend and I discovered people have found a way to troll trade chat. These players will offer to buy full Aya trades for around 20-30 platinum per trade. The thing is you can’t actually trade aya so they will then ask you to buy a lot of a single relic from Varzia and then come to their dojo. The moment you ask to trade the relics you just bought they will tell you they don’t actually want to trade with you.

You can’t complete a full Warframe set from just a single relic and now you have just been tricked into wasting all your aya.

A guy offered me 750 platinum for 180 Lith M8 relics. I offered to trade in batches of 6 in front of Varzia so I wouldn’t need to buy 180 of the same relic all at once but he just sent an angry message and blocked me.

I told a friend of mine about this and he told me he was tricked into spending 60 aya at a rate of 30 platinum per full trade and was told he had just been trolled, which is how I learned these people will decline your trade after you buy all of these relics. It’s safe to say I dodged a bullet here.

If someone is offering you 750 platinum for 180 of the same relic, they just want to waste your aya and don’t actually want your relics. They can’t farm a set like this even if they were to buy your relics. The point of this troll is that you no longer have any aya and can’t farm sets either.

These people are probably trying to prevent other players from farming prime sets because of the end of year Prime Resurgence offering every vaulted set throughout Christmas time. If nobody has any aya then they’re the only ones selling sets.

Edit: this post is getting more attention than I actually thought it would so I thought I’d clarify some things based on what commenters have brought up.

1st: sometime after I made this post my friend told trade chat he had 60 relics and a bunch of players messaged him asking to buy them all. He made a bunch of plat.

2nd: I know there are players who actually want to buy resurgence relics. You can actually make a lot of platinum if you get good relic drops. I’ve even seen people in trade chat asking to buy Glaive sets for anywhere between 250-400 platinum.

3rd: whatever these people think they’re accomplishing being jerks they ain’t accomplishing that. Either they don’t know there’s platinum to be made from these relics or they didn’t actually have the platinum to buy these relics in the first place. Either that or they’re just doing this because they think they’re being funny trolls.