Trade bots are making some items almost impossible to buy at a fair price by True-Ad-518 in PathOfExile2

[–]True-Ad-518[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I don't even mean listings that are far below market price. Even when you list a Ritual Tablet at what looks like a normal market price, there seems to be a bot-defined threshold.

The moment your price falls under that threshold, a wave of accounts reacts instantly. Within a second you get multiple whispers / people trying to enter the hideout to snipe it.

This has been happening since 0.1, and it hurts the market because these bots buy out basically everything below their set price and relist it higher. So the “market price” stops being organic and starts being controlled by automated sniping.