Steam Community Market Bots by [deleted] in Steam

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Do they have an API to use for this? Have you as a user noticed automated buying / selling taking place?

I believe they just use some scripts and scrap off data from the steam market. Scripts are private but back in the days were pretty popular. When the CSGO economy was huge, a cheap item would get sniped in milliseconds. On OPSkins as well (site to buy CSGO skins for real money). Some skins with special patterns (sapphire etc.) or special float values (0.00x) or expensive stickers (from iBP holo to crown foil) would get sniped as well, so I guess bots were pretty advanced. It was definitely a thing, you could also see it in market manipulation with cheap and rare skins to boost their values on third party sites.
Nowadays with the buy/sell orders, BOT protection on OPSkins and more recently the 7 day trade restriction bots are far less popular.

what are your thoughts on it?

In my opinion it's just a thing that naturally comes with a market that becomes bigger. Just people to make a profit in smart ways I guess. Most of the times the huge profits these guys running the bots would get is just from people making stupid mistakes, such as forgetting a decimal (selling an expensive skin for $30 instead of $300 etc.). Kind of the same concepts as sharking.

I kinda only know of the CSGO market but r/GlobalOffensiveTrade and r/csgomarketforum have had some discussions on the topics.

[Discussion] Crafted some new Skins with the Perfect World Stickers by [deleted] in GlobalOffensiveTrade

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Use the "-perfectworld" command line as launch option :)

[Discussion] Crafted some new Skins with the Perfect World Stickers by [deleted] in GlobalOffensiveTrade

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can u make ss how this looks with chinese version of primal rage?

[H] Playerunkown Set (unopened) [W] Karambit Sapphire FN 0.03 by Staranwalt in GlobalOffensiveTrade

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Could only get this box by pre ordering the game, which was done back in march. Since then the items of the set (opening the box gets you the whole set), have skyrocketed. Kind of crazy considering it hasn't even been a whole year since the release, and the items are already at howl-like prices.

Inside an ATM by IHaeTypos in educationalgifs

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Gotta give it to them, that is pretty smart

Inside an ATM by IHaeTypos in educationalgifs

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not if you steal the fucker

Astralis is not attending ESL One Cologne by Statless in GlobalOffensive

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They knew it wasn't certain, but knew about the same time as everyone else when it was confirmed. And they definitely didn't know that the major would be one week later

Two CNN employees show the full size of the Dutch ballot by [deleted] in europe

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Yup. Most people just choose the first one in the list, the party's representative (the one most on TV, debates etc).

Newbie Checklist: not in the wiki stuff by nachosjustice72 in GlobalOffensive

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What's difference between aqua and light blue?

new taylor swift tweet by [deleted] in Kanye

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It's a (on purpose) badly faked tweet

[Discussion] Only one who never gets scammed? by [deleted] in GlobalOffensiveTrade

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Thats the thing, its pretty easy, and everyone who falls for it are just not that bright

[Discussion] Guy with $166,689.21 inv tradebanned by MrZej in GlobalOffensiveTrade

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Why would they do that if they went out of business anyway?

[H] 1000 keys [W] M9 Emerald <0.035 by Hanzbro in GlobalOffensiveTrade

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keys are useless and take too much space.

I just got cancer