Newcomer / Intro Question about Material Traders

I stopped off at Daqing Gateway in Mimisina to trade for Heat Exchangers, except the Material Trader won't accept ANYTHING for them. No matter what I offer, the option won't light up. Do the Material Traders have limited inventories? I can't find anything about this.
 
Figured it out. You can't trade for anything you haven't "discovered" first. How does that make any sense?

That is completely false.

For example I have never undertaken a mission (or salvaged a combat ship) that gave Exquisite Focus Crystals yet I have 21 in my inventory and I have used some in Engineering. The same is true for other things in raw, manufactured and encoded.

To check (and prove to myself that I was not imagining things) I just did a quick trade at the station I am docked at for an encoded material that I have never found, received or traded for before - so starting from 0 Divergent Scan Data, I traded 6 AEA to give me 1 DSD. Like this:

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I could do the same with manufactured and raw materials ('cos I am new) but I can't be bottomed.
 
That is completely false.

For example I have never undertaken a mission (or salvaged a combat ship) that gave Exquisite Focus Crystals yet I have 21 in my inventory and I have used some in Engineering. The same is true for other things in raw, manufactured and encoded.

To check (and prove to myself that I was not imagining things) I just did a quick trade at the station I am docked at for an encoded material that I have never found, received or traded for before - so starting from 0 Divergent Scan Data, I traded 6 AEA to give me 1 DSD. Like this:

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I could do the same with manufactured and raw materials ('cos I am new) but I can't be bottomed.
Well, I could not make the trade with any of three different manufactured material traders, no other material was accepted, until I went out and discovered the material myself. Once I did that, the trader worked as intended. This is personal experience.
 
Well, I could not make the trade with any of three different manufactured material traders, no other material was accepted, until I went out and discovered the material myself. Once I did that, the trader worked as intended. This is personal experience.
Might be a bug? Similar to how some Engineers and/or their requirements like 'mine 500 units' are auto-unlocked for some players.
 
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