I noticed that on certain high volume items and mats on the AH, someone spam posts 1 or 2 of those items at a huge undercut constantly throughout the whole day. For instance, someone is constantly posting 1 or 2 weavercloth bolts on the Area-52 AH for 60-63g ALL DAY as an undercut to the next highest at 100-200g. I, unfortunately fell for this because I expected that someone posting so low would get bought out immediately. Instead they sit there and post 1 item over and over all day long and scalp anyone who happens to not check. Of course I would double check prices for very expensive items, but since this is a high volume material I trust (not anymore) that it is liquid enough to have a correct market price. This is really frustrating and I think it’s ban worthy. If you sit at the AH all day and do this your intention is to scam people.
Turns out bots and automation is still a glaring issue in wow.
Your lack of awareness and misplaced trust in others =/= scam
A suspension isn’t going to send the right message.
Deleting accounts will though.
and I do think scams are worthy infractions to justify it.
I always look at the prices before posting. If the first item is a drastic undercut I’ll post at the next price up.
Stuff still sells in minutes.
Well, lesson learned, dont blindly post and list your items with out looking at the market.
Watch it and buy their stuff. Some of the time they make a mistake.
I snagged over 700 weavercloth at like 20g each because some guy put his entire stack up trying to bait others like that on accident.
One of the nice things about TSM is it won’t let you post if the item is severely under market value.
Sorry you misunderstood, that is not the reason I gave for it being a scam. Posting 1 item over and over all day and scalping the stacks that get posted after it is 100% a scam. Are you trying to argue that this is an intended use of the AH?
“Your lack of awareness and misplaced trust in others =/= scam”. I really like how you made it seem like the litmus test for determining if something is a scam or not depends on the aggrieved party. I can’t wait to hear your “well the game lets them do it so it is legal” take next.
Why not? People have the power to change the value of whatever items they want to put up on the AH. Them being oblivious and using the convenience feature and losing out on potential coin isn’t a scam.
Nor is buying low and selling high. It’s strategy.
Is the gas station that makes me pay $6 for a gallon of milk, for the convenience, scamming me since I can waste more time going all the way to the grocery store and dealing with a lot of random people just to save $2?
The answer is no. It’s not scamming anyone. Rarely do I use the auto set price feature for my items. I’ve never had anything returned.
It’s a free market. You can do as you please with the AH. I can take 1,000 items and every 3 seconds post it for 1g and undercut someone by 449g and keep doing this and watch people post things for that 1g while I turn around and buy them up and resell at 400g.
Free market. I’m free to do as I see fit. Just as is everyone else.
I just go to the ah and camp to spot those and buy them up as fast as i can. Though they usually vanish as fast as they appear… Its like playing wack a mole.
Scammer…bot…dete…cted…
I think where it becomes a problem is that you can’t possibly list a single item at half price every 3 seconds while at the same time and in a coordinated manner buy that same item along with all of the others about a second after you make that listing, repeating that process over and over and over again.
It’s clearly an automated process that uses multiple accounts.
Nah. I buy their posts so that they lose the undercut and make nothing. Or at least dont get others i to it and take a huge gain from people not looking. Its likely the only way to combat this practice. Make it where its no longer profitable.
But im guessing its like trying to empty a sinking ship with a thimble…
Reason #239823949238849382948 why add-ons killed WoW.
wow is dead? also, wow has always had addons…
You and I both know the add-ons of classic versus the add-ons of modern is stark.
Bots are never gonna be removed from WoW, just gotta adapt and learn to play around them.
By definition, the practice described by the OP is a scam lol
It shouldn’t be a thing for region wide high liquidity stuff but it takes like 2 seconds to check.
I mean it is just scamming people.