I have always told anyone that asks me how I was successful on the MB that you have to treat it like a job if you want to make gil at it. having some expectation that you can list and walk away expecting it to miraculously sell with the bots and competition is asking for disappointment. personally I always enjoyed competing against a real player, and you can tell, there are patterns just like with bots, its as close as I'll get to pvp lol

the bots can go, people knowing how to market, well, they can most certainly stay or it would be a dull part of the game indeed