Cancel scanning

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Not sure where to post this

Blizzard should probably look into cancel scanning on the AH. There is no way this isn’t being run by bots. Almost anything you post is immediately undercut. By the time you click on the item you just posted, its undercut and its by the same ~12 players.

I can understand if it was just that many people posting items creating huge volumes of postings, but when its always the same players day and night that instantly undercut, its really hard to believe its happening honestly.

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They already added substantial rate limiting to the AH. Slowing it down further would just make it even worse for real players.

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They need to add a captcha that only appears if bot-like behavior is detected.

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TSM makes it too easy. People spam scan the AH to cancel+repost because TSM also makes re-posting quick and easy. They will sit an account doing it all day, too.

Break the addon from doing that sorta stuff and boom suddenly almost no one will do that.

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Nothing new to see here.

When I used to play the AH all the time I would refresh my orders constantly. Many do.

Not sure what addons there are for AH now a days but they can make it much easier to repost and scan for deals.

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Yes, either remove the API entirely to make it sane, or start doing human checks if someone is hammering it (captcha thru heuristics).

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Oh there’s automation for buying low and selling high too. I couldn’t bring myself to do it though.

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You mean the toons that constantly spam mats for 1s at x1 quantity and power snipe normal people getting baited into accidentally stacking on top?

It’s disgusting.

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Guess what, blizzard doesn’t care. Keep buying your Wow tokens.

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I realize lots of people just play the AH and Im the last guy to try and ruin someone’s gameplay but it’s actually a problem for normal players just trying to sell a few gems/flasks or w/e.

Dunno what the fix should be besides breaking scanning addons or charging 100 gold per cancelled item or something but I think something more should be done to discourage rabid cancel scanning.

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Hmmm. How do you know its day and night. Are you a bot posting stuff day and night?

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Im on holidays. Ive been online a lot.

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Yea that’s turbo annoying. Similar thing yea, but im talking people have systems set up so it buys every piece of ore at a certain price, and then they’ll just resell them at 500g’s higher. The fluctuations are pretty wide so far with certain items.

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How do you know they arent just people on holidays and online a lot?

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I cancel scan and I’m not a bot. But obviously I only do it like once a day when I bother to log onto my AH alt.

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:upside_down_face:

It’s pretty easy to identify. Post a Noz gem. its worthless. but it will be undercut in less than 1 second, always by the same people.

You can’t tell me that people are actively sitting beside their computer just drooling at the chance to sell a puissant noz for 90s

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That is exactly what happens. I think you just want to sell your stuff with no effort and expect to be rewarded for it.

I still am trying to understand how YOU know that it is being undercut, every single time, so fast, all the time. Unless you are standing there checking the posts constantly, doing the same thing you are suggesting others wouldnt do unless they are bots.

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By looking at it. It shows if you’re undercut, but unless you’re either botting or using the automated addons you’re not going to be able to keep up and undercut people consistently. Sorry such complex things go above your head.

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i haven’t seen this problem when i sell stuff. how does it occur?

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my items sell just fine and rarely timeout. i just list at lowest bulk price.

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