Steam Market Bots

How do you know who bought?

I tried a bit of arbitrage when cards first came out, made a tiny bit, but a lot of misses before you can earn a few pence. You have to be on high volume items if you want a quick sale, so there are a lot of people waiting.

I think a lot of it is lucky timing, like getting key drops here, you have to turn up at the exact moment.

Bots should be spotted by the speed at which they go through multiple items. If you are trying manually there is little benefit to watching more than one at once.

I'd say it's likely, but steam also has a huge userbase and people flock to easy money.

Valve bans people who use market bots. http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/1e03tn/iama_steam_market_bot_writer_who_recently_got/

Just look at how fast cards sell. I was surprised myself. When I put one up it was usually gone within a few seconds and it wasn't extremely cheap (0.01$ cheaper or same price as tons of other cards, not enough to make profit with it). On Steamgifts ninja keys are usually gone within 2-3 seconds, now imagine what happens on Steam with a user base 1000x as large if you sell a very cheap item you can use to make profit. Not saying nobody ever used a bot on Steam, but it is more likely that in most cases it were real people who were faster than you.

Reading this made me realize that my ninja skills are probably so well developed, that I can beat machines...

ninjas

Omg, I just realiced right now, how reckless many people are. If you
d have read the reddit thread, you would have noticed that botting is a serious buisiness.
I hope Valve can check his time, he bought items after they went for an unusual price.
You culd belive that there are many botters or you only think everything is running legit.

Wouldn't surprise me that people bot to get cheap stuff.

gaben bot?

Sounds like a case of butthurt.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/marketbot/ there are lots of them right now on steam :) fortunately i don't use market anymore

I've been grabbing some cheap stuff and resold it the past week. Lets face it: OP is just too slow. And it isn't very suprising that a super cheap item isn't avalabile for more than 5 seconds when there are ten thousands of people constantly browsing for such bargains.

Just look at steamgifts and them ninjas. NO KEY DROP will ever work when the thread doesn't show less than "created 5 seconds ago" when you clicked on it.

Sure there might be some bots (especially on super popular stuff I'd guess), but really there is just a shit ton of people too which makes you think there'd be bots anyway.