The flipping bot

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Forgive me for the length of my post and poor writing skills. I flip on a large scale. I add my competition to my friends list so I know which items will be undercut when I see them log on.

One day I was frequently being undercut on my Staff of Jordan, Wall of the dead and Uldaman twink items to the point of annoyance. This player was always offline but always had me undercut. I added them to my friends list and that’s when I noticed a pattern.

About every hour it logs in > instantly logs out > instantly logs in. Stays online for two minutes. Logs out > instantly logs in > instantly logs out. It was this pattern of logging in and out which made me suspect it’s a bot. The next time it logged in I hopped over to my bank alt in Thunder Bluff to pay attention to it’s movement. Left click to move and blatant bot movement when it runs between the mailbox, Gbank and auctioneer. Interacts with the auctioneer without targeting it and declines trades of free gold. I report it.

The next day my items weren’t undercut surprisingly. I checked my TB bank alt and got a message saying my report lead to a ban. Great, until later that day when I’m being frequently undercut on the exact same items. I add them to my friends list and it has the same pattern of logging in and out before and after undercutting. Same guild. I report it and it was banned within a couple days.

Again, for a 3rd time someone is excessively undercutting me on the same items. I add them and I see the same pattern of logging in and out. Shift click the name. Same guild. At this point I was so annoyed I transferred my items to Alliance to try selling them there.

On Alliance side I’m being excessively undercut on the SAME items. I add them to my friends list and sure enough, the exact same pattern of logging in and out before and after it undercuts. Same type of bot-like movement as the horde bot. I report them.

It’s the next day and my items weren’t undercut. I checked the mailboxes of my two characters on both factions that I used to report the bots and both had messages saying my reports resulted in bans. I transfer my items back to horde and try selling them again. Later that day, I’m being undercut on most of the same items. It seems to have run out of Staves of Jordan at least on horde side, but it’s back for a 5th time in one week.

I know this post is pointless and that flipping bots have existed for probably a very long time, but at what point, if ever, do they follow the trail? Whoever is feeding these bots/gbanks should be banned as well.

edits: imgur com /a/gTwKtXC imgur link because Chéézé accuses me of lying. Users like him make me sometimes wonder if Blizzard hires PR trolls instead of actual GMs.

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That is an absolute lie. No one but the account is told what the ramifications of their reports are/were. Your post has lost all value. To sum it up: someone is using an AH addon and you cannot compete and made up a story. Stop lying about it and be honest.

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You definitely do sometimes get in game mail from Customer Service saying action has been taken against an account you reported.
However you aren’t told what account or what the action was.

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Investigation is an action. However, the OP clearly stated:

So I am not wrong on any level. The OP is clearly and blatantly lying about it.

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Why are you posting on this thread when you’re totally clueless? I have alts with more than 1 page from reporting AH bots

Are we allowed to post screenshots on these forums? Which website am I allowed to use? I can post my screenshots on both my alliance and horde toon receiving a message on the same day saying my reports lead to action being taken. Blizzard doesn’t randomly send these messages out for no reason. The bank alts I reported are gone and new ones take their place.

/a/gTwKtXC imgur link

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Bots took over farming and the auction house a long time ago.

I get letters practically every day about reports I’ve sent. Put down the shovel.

The real irony is that you’re posting drivel to call my posts drivel. That said, the topic is about bots, and maybe Blizzard’s enforcement against them, not my posts.

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ironic since you flood the forum with drivel at all hours of the day

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You’re wrong. Blizz absolutely informs people that the reports they make lead to bans. It is almost certainly a lie by Blizzard. But they do do it.

To address the OP: Blizz doesn’t care. Bots are paying customers. Gold buyers are paying customers. Blizz has no interest in losing subs. And not having to pay GMs to police the game saves them money as well.

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Maybe he embellished on the wording, but you for sure get these notices.

I believe it usually says something like -
“Your reports have helped lead to actions against an account.”

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$100 you use tsm to constantly scan the ah with a pseudo bot script

you’re both scummy botters imo. his bot is just a little better and requires less human interaction

hopefully you get banned too

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Took me almost a month to take down a ah bot that was undercutting me. Guy magically always logged into Silvermoon layer 3 making it hard to report. Also, had a guy harass me for about a week before he finally stopped logging on after multiple reports. Blizzard moves very slowly. Also since flipping can fund tokens for multiple accounts easily, So every time you get one of his accounts banned he just pops up another one. You can ask any botter and they’ll tell you getting banned is just a business expense.

Wish you the best of luck in your flipping adventures and best you can do is keep reporting them. Maybe someday Blizzard will do something instead being afk waiting for our reports.

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