SDS Using Bots To Stop Flipping?
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I'm on this one auction and I'm selling an item. Every time I go to put a lower price on the card, at that exact instant someone places a bid $1 lower than mine. Like the bids show up instantaneously. I've tried various random numbers and it keeps happening.
This is weird s****.
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I see this with buy orders all the time too, my guess is it’s somebody/bot running a script or program? It happens way too fast to be coincidence. I can usually get them to overpay or undersell too
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@dbub_PSN said in SDS Using Bots To Stop Flipping?:
I'm on this one auction and I'm selling an item. Every time I go to put a lower price on the card, at that exact instant someone places a bid $1 lower than mine. Like the bids show up instantaneously. I've tried various random numbers and it keeps happening.
This is weird s****.
That's because you're using dollars instead of stubs.
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Or the alternative, if there is a flip on a card and everyone is trying to flip, you’re in competition with other flippers. I’m not saying they don’t have bots, but you have understand a lot packs get opened and it’s 2025 the vast majority of this game know what to look for in a flip, so you’re probably in competition with both.
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I usually drive their price up when I see this, then cancel all but one order. It’s usually a low card. Feels good to [censored] the machine.
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Yeah, 100% its a bot of some sort. Seems like if you quickly way undercut the bot then remove your bid, once it purchases one at the huge undercut price it stops for a bit.
I dont flip at all, but this is super annoying for sure. Such is life in the day and age we live.
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@LHUBison58_XBL So you manipulate the market prices basically?
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If it’s a newly released card or a gate keeper then that seems totally normal. Remember, There are tens of thousands of people on at any given time trying to do the same thing you are.
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There's definitely people that can run scripts for flipping on the website...and it's long been suspected SDS has used script/bots to at the bare minimum shrink margins.
@ebbets1957_XBL I've tried that...it's actually hilarious because it follows you bid for bid, and if you suddenly remove the bids...lo and behold the bot bid disappears instantaneously
All of this just makes flipping harder, not impossible though.
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@Rubbaneck34_XBL I make the scripted bot pay a lot more.
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I steal cards from the Bots. Just lower your sale price to slightly above buy now price and immediatley delete you buy now and it will follow you down then buy in and sell both of the cards for a profit. You do risk the loss of the card you are selling though.
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I would like to see what SDS devs say about these so called bot allegations.
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@Rubbaneck34_XBL said in SDS Using Bots To Stop Flipping?:
I would like to see what SDS devs say about these so called bot allegations.
Should they be required to answer to every single conspiracy theory this community seems to come up with? If they came on and said unequivocally that it was not them, there would still be a contingent of players here who would just say that they are lying.
Why automatically assume it is SDS and not some stub farmer for those 3rd Party sites that sell stubs? Seems like everyone sees conspiracies everywhere these days.
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I think it is MUCH more likely that there are consumers running bots than SDS doing it.
