I have also increased my efforts to linking retainers to the player making the item, and 9 times out of 10 the originator of the item is nothing out of the ordinary.

But you when you start to see MASSIVE item dumps or 99 stacks or an entire market board of an item taking up the first initial listing....THAT'S suspicious. Not saying someone should be convicted of botting.....but investigated. And let the subsequent data prove the behavior of the originator.

Are they in a zone long enough to collect that many items? Are they staying within the bounds of the zone? How many jobs do they have leveled? How often are they on? How long are they on? Are they moving LARGE amounts of GIL to other players? How many times per hour do they adjust their prices and by how much?

These are the questions I want them to use when hunting the bot's down and REMOVING them without a shadow of a doubt. It is very hard to compete with a computer program when putting in a lot of work to legitimately craft something and make a profit. I reported numerous suspicious names and have actually cleaned up the boards for maybe 2-3 days. But then they are replaced with another non-sensical name originator with 5 retainers.

I want them to bring in the bounty hunters like they implemented in FFXI, and if your listed of KNOWN botting you will be hunted down by an insanely OP NPC. This really put the brakes on RMT in FFXI, didn't stop it completely, but showed the botting community they will not be tolerated. It was pretty funny to see bot's waiting on a NM pop and literally 3 min before the NM was scheduled to pop any player on the bounty list would be "murdered" by an NPC that was on patrol around the NM area with 500% normal run speed. Freaking hilarious to put a stop to the gil farming operation, and the AH did stabilize back from a HYPER inflated pricing. You no longer saw items priced at 40mil or 120mil price tags down to something like 1mil or 3mil.