I've read multiple articles and watched a video on it, but I'm still confused about the process.
Does the middleman trade the items to a character on another server?
The middleman holds the items, so the person you are trading with doesn’t scam you. This doesn’t always work, seeing as the middleman can scam you too...the idea is to get widely trusted player to be the middleman, so they aren’t as likely to scam you.
So let’s say Player A on server A wants to trade some items on server A for some items from player B on server B.
Players A and B will agree on a good middleman on server A or B to hold the items from one of the players, let’s say middleman is on server B, so they hold the items that player A will be getting. Then, player B logs onto server A, player A gives player B player A’s stuff, then player A logs onto server B, and gets player B’s stuff from middleman.
The idea is that without the middleman, player A would give items to player B on server A, but if player A logs onto server B afterwards, player B may not give player A the agreed upon items. Like I said, the middleman idea doesn’t always work, sometimes the middleman scams ya, it’s just something to try and avoid.
The one thing to keep in mind is that nothing can be transferred from one server to another, so to get stuff on another server is a very risky business, that is easy to be scammed by.