Is it OK to use bots in FFXIV?

[Nedkel]

The solution to your problem is to place the same price as the price cutter and sell in bulk so that way you are going to be #1 on the list.
Btw you could take advantage of bots price cutting, just set price at low and buy them out, i dont see a problem here.

SE cant ban these bots as long as they are using their own custom bot to play with prices, as those are impossible to recognize by the system.

[ZeroRaziel]

The solution to your problem is to place the same price as the price cutter and sell in bulk so that way you are going to be #1 on the list.
Btw you could take advantage of bots price cutting, just set price at low and buy them out, i dont see a problem here.

SE cant ban these bots as long as they are using their own custom bot to play with prices, as those are impossible to recognize by the system.

Hmm, those are actually quite a good advices, thank you!
But then again, from what I said earlier:
1).

The solution to your problem is to place the same price as the price cutter and sell in bulk so that way you are going to be #1 on the list.

From #2

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't place gear pieces in a bulk Plus bot most likely doesn't update price when it's just < than it's own, but also even if it <=

2).

Btw you could take advantage of bots price cutting, just set price at low and buy them out, i dont see a problem here.

Dude from that Reddit link did just that. After this from #4

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* )

3).

SE cant ban these bots as long as they are using their own custom bot to play with prices, as those are impossible to recognize by the system.

This makes sense, yes. But then again this exact same botting has been reported from at least 15 worlds by now.
It took me around 5 minutes to spot those on 3 worlds out of 6 on my server. So that doesn't seem like it's a very private custom bot... On the other hand, who knows... It might be that all those 30+ clients are run by a one person.