Trading

Trading

The Trade System allows players to trade Prime Warframe Blueprints, Prime Weapon Parts, Mods,  Platinum, Void Relics, alternate Arcane Helmets, Companion Imprints, and Special Weapons (Syndicate, Wraith, Vandal or Prisma) at the Clan Dojo's Trading Post, or at the specified trading relay (Maroo's Bazaar). There is a minimum Mastery requirement of Rank 2 in order to trade, and the number of available trade transactions increases by one each Mastery Rank. Up to six items can be traded per transaction and a trade tax is commissioned to complete the trade. The Trading Post can be found in the Place Decoration tab if you are an Architect in your Clan.

Players can also trade on Mars at Maroo's Bazaar (hold the Gear key, default Q  on PC, and click "SET UP SHOP").

Prerequisites

There is a minimum Mastery requirement of Rank 2 in order to trade.

As of Update 25.0 (2019-05-22), players need to enable 2-Factor Authentication on the official Warframe site in order to gain access to trade. Follow these steps to enable 2FA:

1. Go to the Official Warframe website's Account Management page and log into your PC account if needed.
2. Click on “USER INFORMATION” side tab if it is not active already.
3. You should see there
   “Enable Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) and receive a free in-game cosmetic: Enable” - click on "Enable".
4. A popup message will appear at the top of the webpage saying “PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL FOR FINAL CONFIRMATION. IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR PLEASE CONTACT SUPPORT AT SUPPORT.WARFRAME.COM FOR ASSISTANCE.”
5. You should receive an email within an hour with a link to confirm. Click the link, and wait for the Official Warframe's website to open with a popup message at the top saying
   “TWO-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION HAS BEEN ENABLED FOR YOUR ACCOUNT.”
   You’re all set!

Trades Per Day

The Trading Post as it appears in-game.

The number of trades that can be made per day is the same as the player's Mastery Rank, with exception to Founders, who get an additional two trades per day. The trade limit is refreshed daily at GMT 00:00 and is not affected by the number of items exchanged in each transaction. Furthermore, ranking up will provide an additional trade even if the daily limit has been reached.

Taxes

Trades are charged for a trade tax which amount in  Credits based on the rarity of the commodity. Players will need to pay the respective tax for the item they receive in the trade. Additionally, a Clan tax can be set by the Clan that the Clan Dojo is associated with.

Primed Mods such as  Primed Flow are considered "Legendary Items", therefore costing a trade tax of 1,000,000 Credits 1,000,000. However, Primed Mods obtained from Daily Tribute cannot be traded.

Amount of tax per commodity
Rarity	Common	Uncommon	Rare, Riven	Legendary
Tier	Lith	Meso	Neo, Axi	Eidolon Capture
Mods and Void Relics	2,000 Credits 2,000	4,000 Credits 4,000	8,000 Credits 8,000	1,000,000 Credits 1,000,000
Arcane Enhancements	2,000 Credits 2,000	4,000 Credits 4,000	8,000 Credits 8,000	100,000 Credits 100,000 (Unranked) 300,000 Credits 300,000 (Rank 1) 600,000 Credits 600,000 (Rank 2) 1,000,000 Credits 1,000,000 (Rank 3)
Prime Warframe Part Blueprints	4,000 Credits 4,000
Prime Blueprints and Prime parts	2,000 Credits 2,000
Arcane Helmets, Special Weapons1	2,000 Credits 2,000
Imprints, Focus Lenses	2,000 Credits 2,000
Ayatan Stars2	2,000 Credits 2,000
Ayatan Sculptures2	4,000 Credits 4,000
Platinum3	500 Credits 500 per unit of  Platinum

^{1) Special Weapons must be unaltered by any Affinity, Forma, Lens, or Orokin Catalysts to be tradeable.
  2) Each Ayatan Star slotted into a Sculpture increases the trade tax by 2,000 Credits 2,000.
  3) Players cannot trade the initial amount of platinum that all accounts start off with. This is to prevent players from creating new accounts to farm platinum. Players cannot trade platinum that has been gifted to them either.}

Limitations

• For Warframes, players can only trade the respective Prime Warframe Blueprints. Parts that are crafted through any blueprints, and the fully built Warframes themselves, cannot be traded.
• For Weapons, only blueprints and parts for the Prime, Wraith, and Vandal weapon variants are tradeable. Any other weapons and their blueprints or parts besides the  Sheev,  Wolf Sledge,  Pathocyst,  Quellor,  Pennant, and  Shedu cannot be traded.
  • The Syndicate, Prisma, and  Mara Detron weapons are exceptions, and are considered Special Weapons, which are tradeable as a whole, but only if they are completely unranked with no affinity, and unaltered with no Forma, Lens, or Orokin Catalyst applied.
    • These weapons, will remain tradeable even if recolored, customized with skins, cosmetic attachments, modded with regular weapon mods, or freely used in the Simulacrum, due to no affinity being gained from killing the spawned mobs. This is particularly useful for trying out expensive Syndicate and Prisma weapons to test their accuracy, attack speed/rate of fire, range/damage falloff, recoil, reload speed, or general handling characteristics without fear of losing the ability to sell or resell the weapons to other players later, if they are not to the user's liking.
• Blueprints and Special Weapons cannot be traded to players who do not meet their Mastery Rank requirements.
• Riven Mods requires both the trader and the recipient to have a Mastery Rank of 8 to trade.
• Relics can be traded regardless of them being vaulted or unvaulted.

Terminology

People who use the Trade chat have their own acronyms to summarize their offers. Below is a short list of the most commonly used acronyms in Trade chat. A more comprehensive guide can be found here.

• WTB - Want to buy
• WTS - Want to sell
• WTT(F) - Want to trade (for)
• PC - Price check
• PMO - Private Message Offer
• OBO - "or best offer"
• 100p - "for 100 Platinum"
• :platinum: type this into in-game chat to generate the platinum icon

Matchmaking

There are several means to find buyers and sellers.

In Game Official Trading Channel

By default, players post both WTB (willing to buy) and WTS (willing to sell) offers in the in-game global trading chat channel (default T , then click on the "Trading" tab that looks like two-arrow icon). If you cannot see this channel, then please check if it may have been disabled in settings: default Esc  > OPTIONS > CHAT > Trade Chat needs to have ✔ (and not x) next to it. Note that you will only be receiving messages while that channel is currently active.

When you want to contact the sender of any message in the trading channel, click on their name > Talk. See Chat for more information.

Maroo's Bazaar

You can physically visit Maroo's Bazaar on Mars and meet other players willing to trade, inspecting their offers being displayed above the seller's heads. To initiate a trade with an existing seller, approach them and hit X . To have your offered items being displayed above your head, hold the Gear key, default Q  on PC, and click "SET UP SHOP".

Trading Boards

There is a number of trading boards available, where players may post buy and sell offers, including unofficial ones offered by 3rd parties not associated with the game or the publisher. Notable ones are:

• Board:Trading - on this wiki
• Official Warframe Forums - official game website
• warframe.market - third-party website not officially associated with the game

Personal Trading/Chat History

PC users have a way to partially obtain personal trading and chat history, as long as they have not yet restarted their game session. For details, see Chat History.

Trade Ban

Players may get automatically tagged by the game's anti-cheat system if they acquire an unrealistic amount of loot in a mission, resulting in a two-week trade suspension until the developers review the player's case. These players will receive an in-game inbox message from Warframe's Support Team saying the following:

Hello (Player name),

A recent mission that you completed was flagged for having abnormal results and this has resulted in a two week moratorium on trades being placed on your account. After this auditing period concludes favorably your trading privileges will be restored to your account.

Thank you for understanding.

Warframe Support Team

After the player has been cleared for cheating, the trade ban will be lifted, allowing them to continue trading normally.

Tips

• Manage your trading inventory with a PowerShell script.

Patch History

Update 25.2 (2019-06-19)

• Fixed having 6 unranked Mods in the Trade slots appearing as fully rank after "the slots are full" message prompted, and accepting the Trade results in giving 1 max-ranked same Mod away instead of 6 unranked Mods, even when you didn't swap it.

Update 25.0 (2019-05-22)

2FA and Trading

• You are now required to have 2FA enabled to trade with fellow Tenno. It is required to protect both parties from participating in account invasion-related situations. When both players have 2FA enabled, it helps to ensure that the persons trading are the legitimate account holders trading their own items.

Update 24.6 (2019-04-04)

• Typing an item name (ie Stradavar Prime, Equinox Prime, etc) in the Trade screen search bar will now display all Relics that contain that item.

Update 24.5 (2019-03-14)

• The Trading screen now contains a Riven category and specific search functionality!

Update 24.4 (2019-03-08)

UI Changes & Fixes

• The Dojo Trading screen has received an overhaul!
  • 6 Trading Slots instead of 5!
  • Faster item selection responsiveness and improved UI to help you easily find the items you want to Trade.

Update 18.5 (2016-03-04)

• A search bar has been added to Trading item sub-menus!

Update 11.2 (2013-12-04)

• Changes to Trading confirmation pop-ups:
  • We now show rarity of Mods as well as Rank, to prevent “Fusion Core Fraud”.
  • More visibility to the items involved in the trade to increase awareness at every step of the trade.
  • Switched order of getting/giving for the trade accept confirmation, to be consistent with the new offer confirmation. What you are **giving is always first, what you are getting is second (matches the slots as well, giving on top, getting on the bottom)

Update 11.1 (2013-11-27)

• Added gamepad support to Trading.

Update 11.0 (2013-11-20)

• Introduced