Market Bots
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It's so clear that they don't care. I sent an email on a different matter and I got a reply 2 days later telling me to just post it in here. But the instant outbid by one has bend awful. I also tried the randomly higher number and it was the same thing. Any good margin is pointless now.
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I'd like to add I am on the far east coast. A full hour and a half ahead of the eastern time zone and I'll try a few transactions at roughly 530am. EST and it's the same thing
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Whenever you suspect you are competing against a bot just put in a non-profitable bid (something that will cause a loss if they just bought the card) and then remove your bid. The bots only seem to care about having the highest or lowest bids and will not reset to get a profit. Then just move on to another card because its an utter waste of your time to try to beat the machines.
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Whenever you suspect you are competing against a bot just put in a non-profitable bid (something that will cause a loss if they just bought the card) and then remove your bid. The bots only seem to care about having the highest or lowest bids and will not reset to get a profit. Then just move on to another card because its an utter waste of your time to try to beat the machines.
Some of them are actually sophisticated enough to remove the bid after you remove theirs and it happens almost instantaneously.
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@aaronjw76_PSN That is not a bot. That is me.
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@aaronjw76_PSN That is not a bot. That is me.
I wish it were human activity lol
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I have in past years sent them screenshots with time stamps of stub transfers and nothing got done. Generic responses through email. SDS_Joek was the only one that asked for details and attempted to do anything. The transfers are so blatant but it all the manipulation continues.
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Any update on this? I had the most fun I have had in the game last night flipping and didnt realize that it was due to bots not accessing companion app. Hoping bot activity is being reduced.
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Any update on this? I had the most fun I have had in the game last night flipping and didnt realize that it was due to bots not accessing companion app. Hoping bot activity is being reduced.
It's not just bots. Human idiots via the app also ruin flipping. They tank margins faster than the bots. At least bots are +/- 1 stub, not 500 lol
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They aren't idiots for reducing prices by 500. In fact that's smart tactic to push prices lower to buy. I always put in 5 buy orders after intentionally bringing down the selling price by undercutting the lower selling bids by 500 stubs or so. Usually I can bait a seller to fall for it, and to keep outbidding me, pushing the price down to where I buy the 5 cards for cheap. Then withhold my selling card, and the price creeps up.
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The new Aroldis definitely has a bot. Prices 1 over with two bids within 5s of mine. Stops bidding about with about less than 10% profit from current sales. I played with it enough to see where it stops bidding.
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I also enjoyed watching it bid 2 times at 5k over anything else.... I held my bid and watched it buy 1 at 5k over then removed mine before it's second bid sold.
I was also able to remove its bids by lowering the buy price to within 1500 profit of current spread.
