Is it OK to use bots in FFXIV?

[ZeroRaziel]

That means the person you reported know the way to get a ton of materials for cheaper from other servers and is not a bot.
Unless you have a solid evidence of him wrapping around.

Who told anything about a cheaper price?
Thats highly unlikely that it's not a bot, buddy.
Let's see:

1). This botting consist of a 1 account with a character usually with 1 lvl 80 Tank or Healer and all other lvl 80 crafters gathers. With some help from others it was observed for almost a month. This char is online mostly 23-24 hours a day. And never leaving an appartment for all this time never being AFK. This char is also a leader of a FC with 8 other members from 2nd account. All this characters are lvl 21-23 (levelled to retainers unlock point). This ones are active 24/7. Literally. Only time they are offline is a 5 seconds period when they switch between this 8 characters. Lvl 80 character from 1st account puts crafted items to a Company Chest, and those 22 lvl characters put them on sell. Also probably a measure to try and save this lvl 80 char. Of course non of those characters never responded to any /tells.
(Of course you can say that all this players just have an insomnia and play non-stop for a whole month without being AFK. Also those lvl 22 chars, some of which have those Ofgisdja Affndsaf names (of couse thats just their favourite nickname they use in all MMOs) just enjoy changing character every 20 minutes and updating prices of items made by theirs awesome FC leader... Who also has an Insomnia :P And of course they don't respond to even a simple hello because of naturall shyness :PPP)

2). Once character from 2nd account logged in, it immediately accesses Summoning Bell and scans prices of it's listed items and changes it to the current lowest -1 Gill. So far we only noticed what 5 out of 16 retainers sell and that's Primal's Glam Weapons, Neo-Ishgardian Gear and Facet Crafing Gear. You can just simply visit Ul'Dah/Limsa and observe those lvl 22 "not bots" performing theirs cyclic patters one after another for this whole month never changing anything.
(definitely they just enjoy theirs routine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

3). For some reason every time each character attempts to go from first to second retainer it completely exits summoning bell which can be seen cause it untargets Summoning Bell every time and then targets it again.
(most likely they are just new players who happened to sell almost all Sninryu weapons and simply don't know that you can access your 2nd retainer without completely closing retainers window and definitely not because of a poor monkey coding in a bot's script o_o)

4). And due to predictable and systematic patterns of them we were able to pinpoint exact time of a price scanning window of those retainers and just 1 minute before that we set a price for items selling for 2 000 000 Gill a price around 5 000 Gill to see how characters would react. Once they finished scanning, instead of setting price to 4 999 price remained unchanged. Bots got an upgrade since that reddit post and got new & shiny IF > conditional in a bot's script. And you know what? Once they were done scanning prices instead of visitting a Market Board and buying off more than five Shinryu Weapons for 5 000 Gill this character simply logs off and loggins with a next one.
(that's cause those lvl 22 players are of a very noble heart and do not wish to abuse a "miskate" of someone who "accidentally forgot" to add 3 extra zeros to a price... *stoic_nod* )

5). And out of curiosity I checked other worlds on my server. And guess what, it turns out that almost every world has this exact same "not bot person" with just one lvl 80 tank/healer and all 80 crafters and gatherers who also is leading a FC with eight lvl 22 chars, which are occupying same market zones and all these Free Companies were created in the beginning of May and none of those chars never responding either.
(all that is just a one big coincidence and most obviously has nothing to do with RMT, right?... O_O ...right?...)