Trading

Trading at a glance

Start a trade	Right-click a nearby player, TRADE REQUEST (or `/trade`)
Distance	Within about 200 pixels of each other
Slots	9 item slots per side, plus Vesos
Vesos fee	0% under 100,000, rising to 6% at 100,000,000 (paid by the receiver)
Cannot be traded	Official MSU items and untradeable quest items
Other ways to trade	Player Stores, Item Trading Center, Duey parcels

Trading lets two players swap items and Vesos safely in a shared trading window. MapleVerse is more generous than the original game about what can be traded, and this page lists exactly what may and may not change hands, the fee on Vesos, and the other ways of getting goods to another player: Player Stores, the Item Trading Center and Duey's parcel service.

Trading directly with another player

Stand next to the other player (within about 200 pixels, on the same map and channel).
Right-click them and choose TRADE REQUEST, or click them to open their character card and press REQUEST TRADE. Typing /trade asks the nearest player.
The other player gets a Yes/No prompt and can accept or decline. When they accept, the trading window opens for both of you. A request nobody answers lapses after about 3 minutes. Sending a new trade request while an earlier one is still waiting withdraws the earlier one; if the other player had already opened that trade, it closes and anything they put in goes back to them. A player who has set TRADE REQUEST to DENY in the Game Option window, or who has blocked you, declines automatically or never sees it.
In the trading window, drag items from your Item window into your side of the grid. A stackable item asks how many you want to offer. To offer Vesos, click the coin on your side and type an amount.
Each side can see what the other offers, and there is a chat line for talking over the deal. Anything you remove or change cancels both players' confirmations.
When you are happy with both offers, press Trade. When both players have pressed it, the swap happens.
You see Trade successful., or a line such as Transaction completed. You received 49,250 vesos due to trade fees. if Vesos changed hands.

Press Cancel at any time before both have confirmed and everything goes back to its owner. If the connection drops, the trade times out, or the swap cannot be completed, you are told that the trade failed and your items are returned.

Limits of a trade

Each side has 9 slots. Every equipment piece takes one slot; a stack of potions or scrolls takes one slot. A second stack of the same item takes a second slot.
The trade is refused for a player who has no room in their Item window for what they would receive: Not enough inventory room to receive this trade.
One-of-a-kind items: a player who already holds (or is wearing) such an item cannot receive another: You cannot hold more than one one-of-a-kind item at a time.
A character below level 15 cannot trade more than 1,000,000 Vesos per day: Characters under level 15 can't trade more than 1 million vesos per day.
An item sealed with an Item Guard cash item cannot be traded, sold or dropped until the seal ends.
A Vesos total can never push a player past 2,147,483,647 Vesos.

What can and cannot be traded

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Different from the original game In the original game, anything marked untradeable could not be traded or sold in a store. In MapleVerse almost everything can be traded, including cash items, scrolls, chairs, monster cards, medals and "reward" equipment. Only two kinds of item are refused: official items that come from a MapleStory Universe wallet, and untradeable quest items, the items that quest progress hangs on, such as certificates and special quest tokens. If you try to offer one you see This item cannot be traded.

The same rule applies to Player Stores, the Item Trading Center and Duey parcels. Items dropped on the ground follow the original game's stricter rules instead: untradeable gear cannot be dropped, and a dropped item that is not picked up disappears after 3 minutes.

The Vesos fee

When Vesos change hands in a trade, the receiver pays a fee that rises with the amount:

Vesos in the offer	Fee paid by the receiver
Under 100,000	None
100,000 to 999,999	0.8%
1,000,000 to 4,999,999	1.8%
5,000,000 to 9,999,999	3%
10,000,000 to 24,999,999	4%
25,000,000 to 99,999,999	5%
100,000,000 and over	6%

For example, a trade offering exactly 1,000,000 Vesos costs the receiver 18,000 and they receive 982,000. Items carry no fee.

Duey: the parcel service

Duey, the Package Deliverer, sends an item and/or Vesos to any character by name, whether or not they are online, as long as the character is not on your own account. He stands in most major towns: Henesys, Ellinia, Perion, Kerning City, Lith Harbor, Ereve, Rien, Orbis, El Nath, Ludibrium, Omega Sector, Aquarium, Leafre, Kritias (Town Hall), Mu Lung, Ariant, Magatia and Trend Zone Metropolis.

Sending. Talk to Duey, type the recipient's character name, choose one item (or none) and an amount of Vesos. The parcel costs the Vesos fee from the table above plus a flat 5,000 Vesos, or only the table fee if you pay with a Quick Delivery ticket. Only a Quick Delivery may carry a written message of up to 100 characters.
One item per parcel. A rechargeable ammunition stack (throwing stars, bullets) is sent as a whole stack.
Receiving. The recipient opens Duey's window to collect the parcel. It is refused, and stays waiting, if they have no room, would pass the Vesos cap, or already hold a one-of-a-kind item inside.
Time limit. A parcel waits 30 days. After that it is removed and nothing is returned to the sender.
The recipient's name must exist, and it cannot belong to a character on your own account.

Safety tips

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Warning Check the trading window carefully before pressing Trade. If an offer changes after you confirmed, your confirmation is cleared; read it again. There is no way to undo a completed trade, and the game cannot refund goods or Vesos handed over to another player.

Never trade for promises. Trade items and Vesos at the same time, in the window.
Rare or expensive items are best sold through a player store or the Item Trading Center, where the buyer has to pay before the item moves.
Use the Block list for anyone who pesters you with requests; see Buddy List.