Marketplace bots?
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I'll be honest. I really thought the folks on this forum who are complaining about "bots" were making this up.
I went to Showzone to see if there was anything worth flipping. I haven't done much flipping this year, but I had some time to kill while waiting for my daughter-in-law to finish her first Ironman (she finished - pretty amazing).
I digress... So, I start putting in some orders on some high-margin home run calls, and I'll be damned if every time I put in an order, 5 seconds later a bid came in 1 stub higher. Over and over and over. I just started laughing.
So, I'm now in the "bots exist" camp. Sorry for doubting you.
Now, I'm going to do a little research on crop circles.
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I'll be honest. I really thought the folks on this forum who are complaining about "bots" were making this up.
I went to Showzone to see if there was anything worth flipping. I haven't done much flipping this year, but I had some time to kill while waiting for my daughter-in-law to finish her first Ironman (she finished - pretty amazing).
I digress... So, I start putting in some orders on some high-margin home run calls, and I'll be damned if every time I put in an order, 5 seconds later a bid came in 1 stub higher. Over and over and over. I just started laughing.
So, I'm now in the "bots exist" camp. Sorry for doubting you.
Now, I'm going to do a little research on crop circles.
It’s more obvious when you don’t go one stub lower or higher. Go five stubs, they are instantly one less. Go six stubs they are instantly one less. Go 132 stubs lower and INSTANTLY it’s one less. Take away all three and all three vanish instantly.
The people working the market want you to believe they are that fast, but they literally can’t hit a fastball and haven’t been able to for 8 years. They are as slow as they are old, and they’re all like 60 and couldn’t spot a AI video if their Medicare depended on it
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I've been trying to complete some of the flashback collections but I noticed whenver I post a price to buy, suddely 2/3 other bids appear for a dollar more than mine. I then delete my bid and bid again increasing the price by 1 and same thing happens, 2-3 other bids come up a dollar more than mine.
Are these real humans doing this really fast or is it bots?
Lol no this has been happening for years. Gotta remember there are 80k+ people playing thia game. Just post your buy order then wait at least an hour. It'll go through, thats how I got Ohtani when he went to 680k. Posted the order then waited over night.
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this is so frustrating. i'm trying to collect and pretty much every card my bid gets outbid. this is really ruining the game for me and I'm an offline gamer, NMS, who likes to collect. total b.s SDS.
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and they’re all like 60 and couldn’t spot a AI video if their Medicare depended on it
I resent that. I'm 62 and I can spot an AI video. I think.
Wait... What's AI?
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This whole situation is just sad and jacked up.
How did it come to this?
There needs to be a 30 for 30 on the 'Bots that stole the market' 🤪
What if Bibby Wott was a bot? And how long does that bs 'takeover' last?
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Wish we could just trade our cards with each other and pay a stub penalty or something so SDS would be happy as well. I’m sure people would exploit that as well actually….well, that was a fun thought for a second lol.
Proceed.
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I've been trying to complete some of the flashback collections but I noticed whenver I post a price to buy, suddely 2/3 other bids appear for a dollar more than mine. I then delete my bid and bid again increasing the price by 1 and same thing happens, 2-3 other bids come up a dollar more than mine.
Are these real humans doing this really fast or is it bots?
If you haven't seen it this is the YFK video from a couple of weeks ago exposing the bots, they touch briefly on how the bots are working the market (from 5:25 to about 6:30 in the video) basically it will grind mini seasons and sell the dupes, theres also ones that just sit there flipping cards for them. They are real, I have been saying it since last year.
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There is definitely more bots this year. There are no cards with profitable margins and they clearly don't want people flipping their way to the collection. IDC tbh I always find some new way to enjoy game .
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I ran into this trying to sell my Jose Bautista Mural. Every time I put a sell order in right away there would be at least 1 sell order that was a stub less. I just clicked on Sell Now because I wasn't gonna go through that mess, and it's only a couple thousand stubs difference.
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I posted in the community marketplace thread the acuna diamond bat. The bots on equipment, staduims, and jerseys are beyond ridiculous.
