So I've long been of the belief of keeping things on the down low as much as possible, but this is already on the official forums and out in the wild and well, as some people believe, spreading it leads to fixing it more so I'll just explain exactly how it works. Start a chat line, in party, whatever. Link your item. Follow that immediately with two special characters, for example ëë. Then link the same item again (some of this might be extraneous but I know this works). Put the cursor in between the two ë's. Press delete three times. Instead of deleting the entire [Archon Armor] it will just delete the [ and it will expose the item code. The item code is a bunch of numbers and gibberish, it probably means something, some of it is probably encrypted, but at the very minimum you can find a specific part just before the name that looks like this: 528:528:0:0:7:0 the 528 will be some random 3 digit number, but that 7 is what you're looking for. subtract 2 from that number, and this is how many properties your item has. In this case 5. EDITED BECAUSE TYPING IS HARD You can expect that until this is patched, at least a decent percentage of items that are being sold UnID'd will be known to be not 6 property items and well, thats awful, so don't buy them. You can't do this from a link just in the trade chat from someone else. As long as items don't change hands, this exploit does nothing, so lets try to keep it that way. EDIT: This has predictable evolved into people being able to fully identify UnID'd items including their stats (with small variation e.g. knowing its 170-200 str). Cannot stress enough not to buy UnID'd items now or possibly ever