whats up with the trades...I can get them to load but when I make an offer it is a blank page??

Are you using Firefox as your browser? Because there's a topic in Problems & Bugs about trade issues on Firefox:

No fun when you&;re not interested. x(

I'm on Chrome and I just received an item in trades without any problem.

Yes an old firefox not the new one though...I guess I will work on getting a different browser ..Thank you :)