Bots in Steam Market?

[Rikashey]

I went to go sell one of my Warband cards on the market and accidentally listed it as a few cents under the average. Really, really low.

Anyways, the card sold within a milisecond of pushing the button.

There's probably people out there using these to farm and buy low and sell high.

It's pretty smart when you think about.

If the bot is running 24/7 and there are millions of users buying and selling you're gonna make alot of money. Even if it's only .1 or .2 cents profit per card.

[TᴏxɪᴄRɪғʟᴇ]

Good thing I don't use the Market. :)

[Filthy]

THey only care about the money, they dont care about us normal players.

They have retarded "security feature" which even bann normal players to use the Market for 7 days without reason.

Just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, and the worst part is.
They are forcing us to use Steam for playing CS:GO.

If there was another way I would uninstall steam in 1 second directly.
Crap progz

[BiggusD]

Originally posted by MantQwer:

THey only care about the money, they dont care about us normal players.

They have retarded "security feature" which even bann normal players to use the Market for 7 days without reason.

Just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, and the worst part is.
They are forcing us to use Steam for playing CS:GO.

If there was another way I would uninstall steam in 1 second directly.
Crap progz

yeah Steam and Valve are the same company .. they own CSGO.. wtf you think they are gonna release it on origin ????

[marianne~]

Originally posted by Fork_Q:

Originally posted by Neutronic:

I wouldnt say steam doesnt care because they make profit, 1,2,5 cents isnt really a profit, not enough to *not care* anyways. Maybe if they used a Captcha or something.

Multiply that by the thousands of trades every hour, every day, and that'll give you a better idea. Valve profits in an active and fluid market, bots help in this regard.

Absolutely...If the market wasn't profitable for Steam/Valve, there wouldn't be a market.
I use the market and it's okay with me if Valve profits. It's a business.

[GenPattonBR]

Originally posted by MacchuS:

yeah Steam and Valve are the same company .. they own CSGO.. wtf you think they are gonna release it on origin ????

Steam is a brand. Valve is the company that owns it and makes software under that brand.

Actually, the Steam brand includes a series of software & hardware:
- this website
- the Steam client
- Steamworks
- SteamOS
- SteamMachine
- SteamController

[BiggusD]

Originally posted by GenPattonBR:

Originally posted by MacchuS:

yeah Steam and Valve are the same company .. they own CSGO.. wtf you think they are gonna release it on origin ????

Steam is a brand. Valve is the company that owns it and makes software under that brand.

Actually, the Steam brand includes a series of software & hardware:
- this website
- the Steam client
- Steamworks
- SteamOS
- SteamMachine
- SteamController

thats pretty much what i said ...

[Cardinal Funky]

Steam is love, Steam is life

[McFlurry Butts]

This isn't a new tactic. It's a middle man who jumps into transaction. The stock market had bots buy and resell stocks to people.

[Bantocks]

This seems unfair though, these people are making a profit from us accidently entering a number too low on the sell price. THESE BOTS AND THEIR OWNERS MUST BE STOPPED

[alonson]

I had CS:GO bayonet slaughter knife fn ( 300$ ) and i wanted to sell cs:go case for 2 dollars. I don't know how, but accidentally i set my knife for 2$ on market. And yes, it was sold in a half of second or less, haha.

[MacDuro [0x0]]

Awesome there is a bot topping 20 pages with one card , another example on bots controling the market .
http://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/753/63380-US%20Sniper

[76]

Valve does not give a ♥♥♥♥ about its customers.... if someone is robbing you but valve gets a cut they wont do sh|t for you.

[Skyhigh]

I see a lot of comments of Valve making "1 or 2 cents" and this is not true at all, they make a ton of money off of every large sale on the market. Even on the small items they can sometimes get more than you do.

[Fork_Q2]

Originally posted by Mathew:

I see a lot of comments of Valve making "1 or 2 cents" and this is not true at all, they make a ton of money off of every large sale on the market. Even on the small items they can sometimes get more than you do.

Those large sales are rare and few inbetween, most of the sales are in cards, emoticons and items charged for a few pennies.

[Chains]

Originally posted by Fork_Q:

Originally posted by Neutronic:

I wouldnt say steam doesnt care because they make profit, 1,2,5 cents isnt really a profit, not enough to *not care* anyways. Maybe if they used a Captcha or something.

Multiply that by the thousands of trades every hour, every day, and that'll give you a better idea. Valve profits in an active and fluid market, bots help in this regard.

Bots help who exactly, valve or the customer?

Definately not the latter.