any ban risks for buying from market?

So today i log into the game and check the market prices for thing i usually keep a close eye on and to my suprise i see wind shards down to only 11 gil, stocked all the way up to 20,000 since i stuck a stack on a retainer. now im worried it might of been a bots handy work though.

Obviously many of us could be buying from bots without knowledge since we don't know who is selling on the market or where they get the items from. just hope that if i bought market items from a bot i don't get punished for it

I think half if not more FF XIV players would have been banned by now if your fears were true.

I'm pretty sure SE does a pretty thorough job of investigating bots and gil sellers and learned their behavioral patterns and routines, I see no reason to be afraid of buying from the marketplace as long as you play the game normally like everyone else that is a non bot or gil seller. =P

It is very dangerous, so you should never pay below 100 gil for shards

And no, it's not a coincidence i am selling those expensive shards either by the way *winks*

If you have ever bought a shard from the market you have bought from a bot.

It's not the ban I'm worried about. It's the removal of my Gil that an RMT that bought from me or item removal from an item I may bought from one.

They should scroll down the market board and ban them some are easy to spot with names like Sfssdraar Khfaaw.

Or better yet they can use my blacklist as a template is at full capacity right now.

SE doesn't seem to be following the flow of shards (or care really). Unless the people buying the shards from you also purchased the Gil from the botters (ironic if it's the one you just gave Gil too) then you should be clear of any prying eyes.

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Originally Posted by PurpleSphinx

So today i log into the game and check the market prices for thing i usually keep a close eye on and to my suprise i see wind shards down to only 11 gil, stocked all the way up to 20,000 since i stuck a stack on a retainer. now im worried it might of been a bots handy work though.

Obviously many of us could be buying from bots without knowledge since we don't know who is selling on the market or where they get the items from. just hope that if i bought market items from a bot i don't get punished for it

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I acually put a ticket about this but with fleece

http://i.imgur.com/yvIhTSV.jpg?1

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Originally Posted by SarcasmMisser

If you have ever bought a shard from the market you have bought from a bot.

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I'd have to agree with this.

You spend just under two hours gathering a 1K stack of shards and someone is offering you 11-15K for them, the only thing you are thinking is "screw you". An RMT Bot? They don't care.

case and point why i dont buy shards off the mb, whether ill get in trouble or not i refuse to fund RMT or botters. why anyone would buy shards anyways is beyond me, they are insanely easy to farm yourself and can farm a few hundred in less than an hour

I burn through average 4000 shards a day. Hope that answers urquestion why ppl buy shards.

Yup, there is some chance that you will get banned for buying or selling loads of stuff on auctions. There are some people who ended like this and SE gave them their accounts back after 1 month when they found out that those people were innocent. But they also deleted their gil ofc.

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Originally Posted by alhandra

why anyone would buy shards anyways is beyond me

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Even though I have farmed my shards up to this point, I plan to buy them soon simply because it is better to buy them and pass along the cost to buyers of the items you create. I've just stop short of buying them lately because of the very obvious RMT that are selling them for super low prices. Low prices are good for me but I'm not going to fund those pricks with my gil.

No, but they should ban people who undercut 80-95% >.>

If SE implemented breaking clusters into more crystals into shards I'd reconsider buying shards off the market.

I wouldn't put it past SE to do it, honestly. A problem they fail to address harms a player, so then SE needs to harm the player in their Anti RMT/allyourgilismine tactics, when they could stem all of that by...dealing with bots every day or every other day. Waiting weeks will ensure they continue to tank a economy that is already sinking in many areas. :/

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Originally Posted by SarcasmMisser

If you have ever bought a shard from the market you have bought from a bot.

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False. I do not bot and have previously sold shards on the market.

well how nice ppl...some one asks a question and of course, trolls jump right in.

anyways, you can buy anything you want from the market board without fear of a ban.

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Originally Posted by alhandra

why anyone would buy shards anyways is beyond me, they are insanely easy to farm yourself and can farm a few hundred in less than an hour

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You're not considering the opportunity cost of farming your own shards. Sure I could farm a few hundred shards in an hour, but I could instead have used that hour to farm for other things that I can sell for much more than what the shards cost me off the market.

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Originally Posted by Inquisitor

You're not considering the opportunity cost of farming your own shards. Sure I could farm a few hundred shards in an hour, but I could instead have used that hour to farm for other things that I can sell for much more than what the shards cost me off the market.

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OR you could make a new character and do all of the class quests to level 10 in your starting city then transfer them via guildbank or instance friend request to your main. Spending 2 hours of work for 500-1400 of each shard type is, well awesome.

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Originally Posted by silverhope

I acually put a ticket about this but with fleece

http://i.imgur.com/yvIhTSV.jpg?1

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That response seems reasonable, yet early two star crafters got their gil divided because they were accepting massive tips and outright selling two star pieces for 1m+ (non-legacy) to complete unknowns. In those cases the buyers didn't tell the crafter where they got their gil from. It's pretty reasonable to still be cautious because that might happen again. I was one of the first few 50 crafters on my server, I knew a few people who this happened to.