Sorry, but this “flaw” is called “consideration for other players”.You have at most 5 merchants, and they take 6 hours to come back, so that's at most 20 notifications per day, unless you make popular trades. (I'm boosted in the least popular T7 good.) But if your trades are popular, there should be listings you can take instead of just relying on the merchant.
Ultimately, that's one of the flaws with the math here -- it assumes you don't accept any trades but instead only post them.
Sorry, but this “flaw” is called “consideration for other players”.
If you have the most desirable boost and you take a trade (marked with the hat at least I hope), the odds of that person being online and being able to use the just freed merchant again are pretty slim. Most of the time this action doesn’t help anyone and it doesn’t help the market.
On the other hand, if you send out your merchants, go about collecting and re-running productions in your city while keeping an eye on notifications to send your merchants again when they are accepted, you just helped someone. (If you need more goods and must leave, of course you can take the rest from the posted trades, but if you do this posting every time you collect your production, you usually don’t even need to.)
If I wanted to help you specifically, I’d set a “date” with you and exchanged goods in bulk. That’s what my teammate did for me in last chapter.I've argued on other threads that this picture is just wrong. I will benefit more if you take my trade than if you post new ones that I will never see.
If you accept my trade, you are helping me and being considerate. If you send a merchant, then you are not helping me. Please take my trade instead.
Good to know that the "problem" in this thread is self-inflicted.