I feel like there should be a limit on how often an item's price can be changed.

[Callinon]

If there weren’t thousands of bots artificially increasing supply while not increasing demand I can tell you that the value of that gear would be A LOT higher, this isn’t a natural market problem.

It kind of is actually. If we look at real world trading economies we see it a lot. China, for instance, has been big on flooding markets they want to control with below-cost goods to drive other manufacturers out. It sucks, but this kind of thing is hardly new.