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tntslayer1
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When I post something on the ah, and under cut some one , it aint but 5 min they have all of their listing 1 ad less than mine. there aint no 1 that good or that fast. I've seen this a lot over the years I've played the game.
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I do such long relisting often too, mostly with marks.
Neverwinter UI is quite slow, so I don't think using a bot would boost the speed over manual posting.
If someone is constantly adding and removing items from the ah, this woild be easily detected. Determining if it is legit or not would be a matter of opinion by the person viewing the logs.
Report them and move on. Or keep undercutting them back till the price gets to a point where you can get it for a deal.
Other ppl want to sell their items, too. The AH is free for all players. Keep this in mind, when you read the following scenarios.
I post 5x XY in the AH. Someone posts the same item at a lower price, one item. I do nothing, Why, bc I dont care. He did undercut me, but if his item sells, the next item sold is mine.
I post 5x XY in the AH. Someone posts the same item at a lower price, 20 items, like you did. I undercut him. Why, bc I dont have a chance to sell my item, before his items are sold, all of them.
If this would happen to me, I would refrain, from posting 20 or 30 items, in fact creating a barrier for your fellow players, trying to sell the same things OR you can think, that there are bots out there, trying to get you.
While I don't doubt that AH botting is likely possible, consider how harshly the search bar is time-gated. You get what, 5 searches per minute? And AH automation would almost certainly be the easiest possible bot to detect, so yeah, would get banned fast.
My somewhat informed impression is that the bulk of the ban wave and subsequent r5 price jump was related to bots obtaining r5s automatically, not trading them.
^ I literally have no idea what percent of that post is allowed here, so sorry in advance, mods.
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it only shows results when you click search and in that time frame the database is updated the guy / gal could have posted a few items especially when the auction is lagging /high volume
Maybe they only logon to play the market ( though not the game which is weird , but hey maybe that's fun to them ) , but if I get into a bidding war with one of these accounts one of them will always undercut to the nearest thousand value ( always ending in 000 but never being reduced by a single AD ) .
If you look at the AH postings where they are the only characters to have items in that category as long as one of these accounts is first to show then there is no bidding war . It ONLY seems to occur where someone else tries to sell an item .