I can absolutely tell it is a bot. I stand in front of them to interrupt the casting or hover over the bobber and it just keeps re-casting until lands in open water. The toon never moves, no matter what. Just keeps casting and clicking. The names of each of the toons are all similar. Same 3-letter prefixes with random gen letters for suffix. They are all Lvl5 Orcs, stripped of gear, just fishing pole. When I shard/phase in when there are 10+, they are all casting at same/similar times. There’s no doubt these are all being controlled by the same bot orchestration app.
I do suppose you’re right about the over-supply would cause prices to drop, especially since TSM/Auctionator fixing the undercutting after the AH revamp. Demand is still high for the Catfish though, especially since they cannot be caught from pools and are needed for Seafood Magnifique Feasts. TBH, I don’t know what the angle is and that’s sort of what bugs me about this.
No matter which way you look at it, it is cheating and unfair advantage.
To my surprise, Ramkahen, or at least my phase/shard of it, is free of the Lvl5 bot fishers tonight.