trade you can find a lot of cheap path of exile items
Definitely. As someone who has avoided standard for quite some time and only played temp leagues: I was baffled by the prices when I played standard last week. If you use poe. trade you can find a lot of cheap items, but most of them are inactive users (not saying they quit, but often stopped playing for weeks).
If you're trying to buy stuff from online players like in challenge leagues you're going to pay exorbitant prices for average rares (the worst thing are gems. People want EXALTS for ~level 15-17 gems).
I assume the post I made sounds worse than I intended it to sound.
I wanted to try several CoC setups because I never played them, so I tried to buy level 15+ Arc/Ice Spear/Cold Snap/some other gems. While in general there are many people selling them for ~1 chaos, most of them were not online (and often offline for way more than one day). When I searched for them I was unable to find Ice Spear/Cold Snap for <1 exalt from someone that is currently online, searching for several hours while playing.
I just redid my search and the cheapest level 15+ Cold Snap that is currently online was listed for 5 chaos, with a total of 7 gems <1 exalt (to be fair, the rest are mostly 20Q gems, but that wasn't the case the last time I searched. Arctic Breath shows similar results).
When you actually take your time and search stuff over some time/PM a lot of offline traders you probably could get them cheaper, but when you're trying to trade instantly like in challenge leagues/the 1 month league it appears to me to be a lot more expensive

Nov
Eternal Orbs will literally rarer than mirrors when the Awakening hits
but since these good rares will replace the role of the Eternal Orb, they will at least cost as much as what an Eternal Orb used to cost.

Nov
Make skin microtransactions easier to retrieve in Path of Exile
instead of the current look through all your tabs and characters until you find that one skin you are looking for method, my proposal is to have non-consumable skins permanently displayed on your microtransactions stash

Aug
Path of Exile: Delve Coming Soon
Path of Exile has been announced that players will soon have the opportunity to descend into the deepest, darkest parts of Wraeclast come August 31.

Oct
GGG want to force us to trade
So much stuff in POE we take for granted was so fun to discover. Figuring out how to change my skills using support gems was amazing.

Dec
Real 10% OFF for POE Chaos and Exalted Orbs in Xmas and New Year
How time flies! Christmas is coming again. Guess you guys cannot even wait to celebrate and enjoy this wonderful festival! And we have also prepare gift for all of you!

Jun
[3.11] PoE Harvest Witch Starter Endgame Builds
Here is the latest PoE 3.11 Harvest Witch Starter Endgame Builds - Elementalist, Occultist and Necromancer. Whether you like cheap, fast mapping, or boss killer, you can find the build you want.