Maybe they will get banned? How about people just stop selling stuff for 1000 gil less than what they NPC for....that would solve the problem. How can you blame someone for taking advantage of what the market gives them?
It's not the fact that they do this for small amounts of profit. Take a look at how many items are purchased per day. The issue is more about how a single person spend every hour of every day parked in front of the AH. Seems a lot like a bot to me.
This guy is almost certainly a bot or a group of people watching the upper jeuno AH all day. You can actually make a lot of gil doing this, as the only reason I know of this guy is because I can't do it anymore because of him, heh.
I see comments from February 2008 here, it's May 2009 now and this guy been buying and selling 24/7 since then. I bet he made LOADs of money lol.
wonder which multi-relic holder on garuda got this mule :P
EDIT: he just bought a crab shell for 300gil then another for 3000gil! it's prolly not a bot but a group of RMTs favorite mule? lol
but if he was RMT then he would've got banned long time ago...
He will buy stuff at less than 100 Gil below the NPC price. He will buy stuff 24/7. Even with Chinese labor rates no one can afford a live person doing this. He has to be a well scripted bot.
A friend who used to write fishbots claims to have scripted a 5 minuet conversation, decision - response trees and all.
Try casting buffs on him to unlock him from the AH NPC perhaps?
Seems likely that whoever owns Mstrbama's account is also this guy. He's been fixing the price of imperial gold coins and buying them up and Msterbama has been offloading a ton of *** silver piece stacks. i have no idea what the *** this dude would be doing with the coins other than trying to make money off them and the only person constantly offloading coins is mstrbama.
This character will never get banned. Why? Clearly because it's a bot that SE uses to buy off all the ***thats useless and nobody uses. And some of the stuff he buys that useful is to probably slowly put some Gil into the game or some ***.