Steam market automated bid bots

[sinter]

When I'm adding my market order to buy a Rust item, a guy automatically bid's over my price.
Using automated bots on the steam market is allowed?

[Sazzouu]

No it is not

You may not use Cheats, automation software (bots), mods, hacks, or any other unauthorized third-party software, to modify or automate any Subscription Marketplace process.

Source: https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement/english/

[SeansShow]

certainly falls within a grey area though or at the very least non enforced / inconsistently enforced.

I've innocently searched for other content on here in groups and came across users with bot farm groups of several hundred and its been as obvious as every one of the several hundred accounts being numbered sequentially, having the same one friend (the owner), voting on the same game with the same one word line of text across several hundred accounts and being in a group named farm with steam ids for farmables games. Farm owner even had nigh on 1.5 million market transactions.

You can report it but don't be surprised when nothing happens.

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Sad

[Cat on Linux]

Originally posted by s i n t e RRRR`:

When I'm adding my market order to buy a Rust item, a guy automatically bid's over my price.
Using automated bots on the steam market is allowed?

bids over your price? so if someone gives more money for the same item they are bots? why any bot would do that? bots buy cheap, sell high. not the opposite :)

[sinter]

Originally posted by Cat on Linux:

Originally posted by s i n t e RRRR`:

When I'm adding my market order to buy a Rust item, a guy automatically bid's over my price.
Using automated bots on the steam market is allowed?

bids over your price? so if someone gives more money for the same item they are bots? why any bot would do that? bots buy cheap, sell high. not the opposite :)

It's not a problem, if someone pays more, but automatically bidding over me is against steam rules as they said in the comments. I can raise my bid on that item anytime in a day, he will autobid me by a few cents instantly.

It's not the stock market...

[Cat on Linux]

Originally posted by s i n t e RRRR`:

Originally posted by Cat on Linux:

bids over your price? so if someone gives more money for the same item they are bots? why any bot would do that? bots buy cheap, sell high. not the opposite :)

It's not a problem, if someone pays more, but automatically bidding over me is against steam rules as they said in the comments. I can raise my bid on that item anytime in a day, he will autobid me by a few cents instantly.

It's not the stock market...

I see. I've heard about bots that snatch an item if it's going cheap, must be never paid an attention to those who overbid. Actually, if you have 2 days your offer will be eventually filled/ people have different currencies and your price might fit into their offer better than bot's offer. steam matches offers with closest numbers, and only then goes for a queue of orders.

[wuddih]

Originally posted by Cat on Linux:

I've heard about bots that snatch an item if it's going cheap

that is called buy orders, not bots.

[Cat on Linux]

Originally posted by wuddih:

Originally posted by Cat on Linux:

I've heard about bots that snatch an item if it's going cheap

that is called buy orders, not bots.

yeah, but they create orders once they see cheap item. usually it's within 1 second.