Ptcgo friend to friend trade HELP!!!!!!!

I just started playing online and a few of my coworkers do also, and they want to trade. We have all downloaded the game from pokemon.com but when I search for their usernames to trade I can't find them. One coworker is going pay me for a few. Please someone hel walk me through this. I pulled up the public trade, and cannot navigate that. I tried changing filters to locate my friends and nothing. PLEASE Help Thanks Happyjacks777

http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=8617278#8617278

As I said in the DCC thread, they may have accepted the trade not knowing it wasn't you on the other end. "Public" trades can be agreed to by anyone, hence why they're "public". Try initiating a private trade between each other.