If your flipping non players cards on a regular basis there is no way to avoid getting caught up in stub transfers by whoever is doing them. I havent flipped as much this year due to the bots but even when I have my orders on somedays would be instantly bought out. We shouldnt have to fear being banned if your simply trying to grow your stubs the correct way without purchasing. I think SDS should look at this and take gameplay time vs flipping as a factor when choosing to ban someone. At the end of the day, cheating with zens or whatever else is happening on every online game and it is the console companies responsibility to ban 3rd party hardware. I hope the OP gets his account unbanned if he wasnt doing something wrong.

@J_Kidd1231_PSN said:

I was banned 3 weeks ago or maybe even longer now for market manipulation. When all I was doing was flipping. After long convos with @sds_joek_psn and @sds_manu where one said I did nothing wrong but then backtracked and told me that I was actually banned for stub transferring even though the ban in the email and on my screen says market manipulation. I was told to put in a ticket still haven’t heard back and I’m not holding my breathe. SDS has a bot problem. So if you flip like you have in past years and the bot buys your stuff you get banned for it even though you cannot control who buys or sells. So innocent people get banned you get robbed of whatever you paid for the game just because the people that work there can’t figure out how to stop it. SDS how about trying to go after the 3rd party companies themselves. What do you think the people that got banned that didn’t do anything wrong think when they see huge streamers like Kyle and other promote those companies give discount codes out get paid by the companies and say they use them but those people STILL ARENT BANNED. You have absolutely ruined your community with this. You are literally robbing people.

Well, considering the banned Kyle. .....

@J_Kidd1231_PSN said:

I got an email saying I was banned for market manipulation but after talking with Joe and Manu on here they said it was third party purchasing but never got an email about that nor does my game say I’m banned for that. They are just making stuff up as they go. They won’t say it but their philosophy is for every 100 cheaters if 10-15 innocents get it to they can live with that

They said it was third party purchasing but never got an email about that nor does my game say I’m banned for that. Based on that I assumed you purchased off 3rd party sites. If not and you were erroneously banned i apologize. But if you were flipping equipment during stub transfers it was easy to see something wasnt right.

Buying stubs from 3rd party sites is explicitly against the TOS. That’s why you were banned.