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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.

I still see all of the usual problems plus some new strange activity of many orders to sell right near the quick sale value.

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.

I can see both sides of this argument. Been playing for about 10 years. I can put up with everything this year except one thing. BOTS. You need to buy cards in the marketplace to complete collections but the bots have made it a pain. I feel like this version could have been bearable if it wasn't for the bots. So many times I didn't go after a card because I could see the bots and thought, why bother.

There are definitely bots in the marketplace. No human could cancel and enter orders as fast as the bots. I go back and forth on who it is since it doesn't get fixed. This has been going on since last year. It's worse this year.

I asked support to reconsider and they gave me an ultra pack with 5 players. I really appreciate it when they come through.

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.

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.

@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.

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.

@fn-billy-sastard_psn
Happened to me. I'm trying to be patient with the efforts to stop the bots but this did seem like a quick restriction.

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.

Not sure what you are talking about with logos.

It's on the App. Looks like it's a restriction to slow down entering transactions. I waited about 30 seconds and it was removed. Got a little too excited that the bots were gone for now.

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?

@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.

This issue is still going on even this late in the game cycle. So many cards/players in the market have this now. So very difficult to buy or sell against a bot. I have been trying to sell extra All Star cards all day only to have bots under cut me. Seen situations where they will take the sell price from 47000 all the way to 40000. The cards are so thinly traded that the bot will sell then buy and go back to sell before I can sell mine. It has to be a bot because the new sell is entered and the previous canceled within 1 second. No human can do it that fast. I sure hope SDS isn't doing this to manipulate the market. They certainly aren't stopping it if it's an individual.

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.

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.

I have played out this exact scenario about 50 times or more test it out and it worked exactly the same everytime.