Question About Trading Rules concerning Trade offers made outside of the NI Forum

[Terath]

"Do not make an offer you do not intend to honour" would mean that Never did not intend to honour the offer in the first place. He very obviously did intend to honor the offer in the first place (shown in the screenshots), but instead backed out on it because he got a better offer. Nothing he did came even close to breaking the rules.
Reporting a player because there was frustration with the trade is never an acceptable answer. That aside, we do not police trades that are not on NordInvasion hosted services.

Edit: Now seeing that this was a question and not a report. Woops. Yeah, the top paragraph still applies. Nothing he did came close to breaking the rules.

So that rule basically means don't make trolling offers? It is a bit hard to understand what that rule means. I was pretty sure it meant that once an offer was accepted on both sides, it applies no matter if one gets offered something better or not. (kinda like a contract.)

Logically speaking, forcing a player into a contract because both sides accepted a trade is what the trading on the main website is for. Each side accepts the other side's trade, and the items are traded. That's the contract. Anything before that transaction is just discussion.

There is no rule binding people to verbal contracts, because that would be incredibly restrictive and would only serve to damage trading as a whole. Players would pull out this rule when the trade isn't going the way they want, as is seen very clearly in your report.

The rule is indeed not very clear, and should say "Do not make an offer you do not intend to honour or have the means to honour", which is what I believe it originally referred to - players putting up WTS for items they didn't have, or WTBs with no form of payment, in which the end result is just annoyance for the person on the other end of the transaction. It does not refer to a verbally binding contract that forces a player to honour what they said they would trade - that part is left to the website's trading system.