Market Board RMT Sellers

[Jojoya]

I like to give some Items here and there to Sprouts too or to some poor Players. But 700+ expensive Glamour Items on a Server you do not even Play on. And some Items even in so large Amounts like 59 Whisperfine Woolen Boots? 5-10 or 20 Items but 700? That Player bought even my Items to resell them on another Server and not just 1 or 3 Items, no a whole damn Stock.

Did they list them for more than they paid you or for less?

We Players of Twintania want to sell those Items too

If that other player bought your items, then you sold them. That doesn't sound like a problem.

Again, we're missing information here.

A lot of players do things for strange reasons. Some are altruists. Others want to see how long they can hold a monopoly on a part of the market. Yet others do it just to annoy other players. When you're dealing with a couple of hundred thousand players, there's bound to be few oddballs in the bunch not behaving according to "normal" reasoning.

If you come up with information that would indicate this player is selling at a profit instead of at a loss like you claim, then we'd be more inclined to believe that it's RMT. Otherwise, you've just met one of the oddballs.

I think what people also fail to understand is that no normal person is going to update prices for 700+ items per server manually. Having looked at their free company (which looks like the typical RMT free company) my guess is that the mule characters are run by a bot. No proof, just my educated guess. I also think that more people use bots than everyone here might think. For example I know multiple people who "allegedly" use bots for their retainers and they are not even big market board players. Then there was the PVP fiasco with half the poeple playing using third-party tools. I mean, do the math.

Most of you people bashing OP didn't even take the time to investigate the claims. If you did, you would know that OP has a point and might be onto something. The player OP is talking about looks fishy AF. You people are nitpicking about motive but who cares what the motive is. If it's not RMT than it's probably botting. Both are against the ToS.

700 items wouldn't take that long to update manually for someone who uses the marketboard as their endgame.

I know you tend to keep a careful eye on the suspected bots for EU. Are you seeing this individual doing the rapid, constant undercutting typical of those using bots?

There was no need to investigate the OP's claim when the claim was that the seller is operating at a loss. RMT can't operate at a gil loss when their goal is to earn a gil profit that they can sell for real money. It's possible for things to be out of the ordinary and yet still not being doing anything wrong.

Whether this individual is using a bot or other third party program to list and adjust prices is a separate issue. If you've gathered enough information to be confident that they are using a third party tool of some sort, then report them for doing that. Maybe that's why nothing has happened despite the OP's repeated reports - they're reporting the player for RMT when there's no evidence of that and the real problem is third party tool use.

It's not a matter of motive. It's a matter of evidence. For now, all we're hearing is that someone is trying to monopolize map glamours on the EU data centers by selling under the cost of the materials they are purchasing. That's not against ToS.