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It's beyond annoying that bot just auto undercut listings you put up. Makes it impossible to have the lowest listing without losing money. Absurd

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Well, they are machines, it's their algorithm after all. You may wanna focus on stuff in limited quantity without bot listings to have more possibilities in trading successfully such as unusuals, skins or rare stranges. Trying to beat bots in markets related to very common items (craft weapons, basic and specialized killstreak kits, pretty much every cheap strange item etcetera) is pretty much a suicide mission.

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5 hours ago, Colonel Johnson said:

Well, they are machines, it's their algorithm after all.

It is actually quite easy to exploit poorly written trade bots because of this. They do not anticipate sudden changes in supply and demand and end up bagholding because it wouldn't budge over a 1 scrap price difference.

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depends on the bot, most bots by gladiator.tf dont undercut and overcut like bitches, bots like Briel (cloudy), scrapyard and liquid are the ones that over and undercut aggressively

 

liquid especially is well-known to use every trick in the book to do this

and Briel, its managed by a human but the listings are autolisted by his home-made bot. meaning the listings are made not by him but by his custom-made bot and then he manually accepts or declines trades, although because there are so many unusuals he can only know so many bad ones and well known to not honor his buy orders by making up bullshit excuses and playing the victim card just to get out of a bad deal that his bot over-cut/under-cut for.

bots like Briel are the worst yes. artificially inflate prices and not take any L's, liquid and scrapyard being the 2 biggest overcuts, though with scrapyard being gone its just liquid that inflates prices for now, some other home-made bots do this too but they are less aggressive or more stupid

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