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So tonight I was trying to sell some Topps Now cards and saw some new strange activity. When I canceled my order and tried to enter a lower amount I was instantly under cut by 1 stub. The interesting thing was the number of orders. It was 150 orders 1 stub below mine entered in 125 seconds. When I lowered my order again it happened again. 150 orders in 125 seconds. This went on for at least 30 minutes. What is going on here? I've watched the bots get steadily worse for a year now but this is a new one to me.

Here's an example of how I have tested it. Sale price 9000 and buy price 6000. I put in an order for 6005. Bot does 6006 and cancels 6000 about a second or two apart. I go to 6500 and then bot does 6501. I do 7000 and bot does 7001. Each time the bot cancels it's previous order. Now the top three prices are 7001 bot, 7000 me 6000 next best bid. I cancel my 7000 and the bot stays at 7001 until a buy happens even though it is now 1000 above the next best bid. It doesn't expect this to happen so it isn't programmed to correct the large over bid. Individuals don't leave the high bid all alone. Individuals will cancel and lower when they see that they are way above the market.
The bot doesn't. Once the buy happens it switches and sells. As long as it is the best price the program works. I've been playing the market for 10 years and have never seen anything like this before.

What really sucks is when the bot buys and then sells and then bids again before you can buy your card. I've seen this happen. I feel like I have to wait for the bot to get his purchase done and hope I can buy mine before he switches back to the buy side again.

It's actually worse than what is being discussed here. I've been watching it out of curiosity. The bot will enter a buy order 1 above the best bid. Any higher bid and it will cancel and go 1 above again. It usually happens 10 seconds after the higher bid is entered. Sometimes as long as 25 seconds. Once the bot makes a purchase it flips over and lists the item for sale at 1 below the best offer and repeats the process. Once the sale happens it starts all over again with a new buy order. This usually happens when the spread is about 1000 to 2000 between buy and sell. It is soooo annoying if you are trying to buy or sell an item.

Just got this message and now can't do any transactions in the market. What's going on? After dealing with bots for many months now this. How do we get this fixed?

So I completed one of the requirements in mini seasons and the reward was supposed to be a deluxe 3 player pack. What I received was a Chocolate Bunny 1 player pack. Has anyone else had this happen and get it fixed? I sent a message to support but no response or help.

The Cal Raleigh card is a perfect example of when it happens. It has enough spread, trades not too often and isn't too large a price.

@TripleH-4481_PSN
I have been following this closely for the last couple of years and I also noticed no bots on Saturday. It was awesome. The feeling was like it used to be but then by Sunday the bots were back in full force. I thought SDS might have shut it down but I guess not. It was either a third party that got scared or SDS was busy banning people. I had another thought on the slow menus. Maybe it has something with all these bot transactions/inputs hitting the servers. Maybe the bots are overwhelming the servers and slowing it down. I actually thought they may be affecting gameplay as well. Even offline it feels like I am late on input much more this year than the past.

Now I'm getting the request verification failed message also. Can't do any transactions on the app. I tried to logout and login but it didn't help me.

@capardo_XBL
This is absolutely brutal. With as much [censored] as we have had to deal with they can't just fix an obvious coding mistake.

It's a premier pack containing 3 players. The problem still exists. You only receive 1 player which is from the egg hunt program because it's the chocolate bunny.

Just got a response from support. They said that it is up to 3 players. No help offered. So basically we can now get screwed as a policy of SDS.

Every single order, buy and sell has a bot 1 above or below me. This has been the biggest pain in the a$$ to deal with.