Is it OK to use bots in FFXIV?

[gotaname1]

I would happily challenge any SE programmer, customer rep, even Yoshi-P to make gil without cheating on the market these days. Its almost at the stage where you need a bot to do so. Seen what I suspect is a couple more come online in the last couple days and with more than one "competing" on the market, you do not have the "luxury" of fitting in between their cycles, or having a chance to sell once they have to replenish stock.

Something needs to change. Either SE needs to say they dont give a damn about market botters and cannot do anything or they need to come up with tools so they can do something about an aspect of the game many people do without cheating. Either way, a part of the game they produce is quickly becoming unplayable and they need to fix it... or scrap it.

I tried selling honestly when I discovered how to make macros. So me and my new found scriptkiddy powers started making Dwarven Mythril Nuggets. The market for it was pretty much untouched and I had only like 1 competitor that I think was human. The only difference between me and my competitor is that I purposely had different amounts, fitting the amount nescesary for crafts (you rarely need more than 2 nuggets for recipies so it was easy to figure out). My nuggets sold like hotcakes and I actually had stuff to craft daily while turning an okay profit. And then something weird happened: someone or something bought up EVERYTHING, and started selling the stuff they bought for HALF the price it was offered initially. Like if it sold for 4k previously, it would now be 2k AND in bigger stacks... Weird things like that to manipulate the board. And only after that, did a bot come in, dropping prices by 1 gil, creating an even more extreme pricing envoirnment. I can't compete vs both stupid undercutters and bots together. So I stopped using the marketboard as much as possible all together to sell my stuff.