So I was recently scammed by player Macken when I paid him the unbind fee for a weapon (alt of player Abcdz/General-Gio apparently, but I cannot confirm). He has moved the node to french bazaar to avoid attention.
I understand that I clearly took the risk of paying the unbind fee upfront and got the short end of the stick. But then I thought, well, why is the unbind mechanic made so unnecessarily risky?
You should be paying the fee to rebind unbound weapons, and unbinds should be free.
This allows you to trade unbound weapons for their full value (minus the fee) upfront and the buyer needs to pay the fee (for example, 4000 energy) to rebind the weapon. The net exchange of energy between players would be the same, and there would be no risk of needing to perform one-sided trades at risk of losing unbind fee.
Vise should have an Anvil next to him that allows a special Trade Window for two players. The Window would look similar as the normal Window, but would allow you to put Bound Items in. As the Bound Item(s) is/are placed by one player, an Energy fee is shown & increases with more Bound items put in. Once the Trade is complete, the Player's Energy would be depleted by the amount of Energy necessary to Unbound the Item(s) & the item(s) will automatically be placed in the Player's Inventory Bound. The Player who originally had the Item would receive the Item(s)(if placed) by the Player who payed for the Unbind fee.