If you want to see the bots at work, at this very moment you can put a bid in for 57k on Alex Bregman and it will stay at the top. If you delete it you will see 2 bots instantly outbidding each other by one.
I played with it and if I put a bid in for 55k it instantly went to 55,001 and up and up. I tried it again at 55,500 and same thing. It wasn’t until I got to 57,000 that the bots stopped. They are programmed to stop at certain margin points.
I kept doing it to watch the blatant bots usage. I’d delete my bid and watch them go active. Then put it back at 57,000 and then watch all of their bids start deleting.
This is a joke. Others have said this and I agree, I would much rather the marketplace on the app get shut down temporarily and allow SDS time to ban account and make fixes than to watch this happen. Something has to be done.