The transaction handling by the Global Trade HQ is seriously flawed. For popular items, it is almost impossible to actually buy the items. By the time the seller's city is loaded and its trade depot queried, the item that was shown for sale is usually gone. This is possibly the most flawed implementation of this kind of feature I have ever seen. I wonder how it would work if banks or stores worked this way. It's shameful for EA to release a feature that is so flawed. However, I am hopeful that this will be fixed before I abandon the game. My city currently has more than 600 000 residents, so I am not new to the game. The Global Trade HQ has been steadily getting more and more unusable.
