Something I noticed tonight about BOTS that "buy," and can anyone explain this to me

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Originally Posted by blsb

Just offer maximum price, and then even if a stranger swoops in to buy it, you don't lose.

I often find that stuff that I put for sale disappears within a minute, even if I did not advertise it in the Daily Dirt. But so what? That is life. In the real world, if I sell a few shares of a stock, I don't care who buys it so long as I get the asking price.

Neighbors trading through the roadside stand, while tolerated, isn't really the intent. For instance, look at the limitations placed on the neighborhood trading mechanism. No trading of expansion items, and only so many trades within an 8 hour period. So if you are going to trade through the roadside stand, do so at your own risk. There are plenty of things that you can do to lower the risk, but please understand that there are a lot of players out there, and chances are that someone just might be looking at your roadside stand at the moment you decide to set up a trade. Deal with it.

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Couldn't agree more!

I have to say, I get annoyed by the attitude of many, when saying people they have helped or other strangers are "stealing" the items, they have put up for sale. It is just stupid! If you put something up for sale, then ANYONE is free to go and buy it. That's it! And the whole attitude of don't help or get help, is just weird. Why play then?

Oh, and if you don't want "strangers" to buy your stuff, then don't put it up for sale.

Hay Day is about producing, selling, buying and helping! Not about deciding, who is "good enough" to buy your items or help on your farm. We have enough bigotry in the real world, we don't need it in Hay Day!

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Originally Posted by L26

Couldn't agree more!

I have to say, I get annoyed by the attitude of many, when saying people they have helped or other strangers are "stealing" the items, they have put up for sale. It is just stupid! If you put something up for sale, then ANYONE is free to go and buy it. That's it! And the whole attitude of don't help or get help, is just weird. Why play then?

Oh, and if you don't want "strangers" to buy your stuff, then don't put it up for sale.

Hay Day is about producing, selling, buying and helping! Not about deciding, who is "good enough" to buy your items or help on your farm. We have enough bigotry in the real world, we don't need it in Hay Day!

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Hi, I see and understand your perspective on regular human-player RSS buying and selling. But this is a different matter.

There are scripts/codes that players buy and install on their devices (in contravention of SC's Terms of Service) that perform certain activities in Hay Day automatically for them, i.e. no further human intervention/play may be required.

One type of bot attaches itself to a farm and then automatically purchases certain items that this bot detects in the targeted RSS or notifies the player that the desired items are up for sale. This kind of programming is incredibly unfair to the targeted farm.

We're not allowed to alter our game to perform functions automatically, so it feels especially violative to be targeted and harvested by one of these bots.

Bots suck! Big time! However report suspected bots to SuperCell, and don't let them scare you into not trusting other players.

Apparently the only way to be sure to avoid running into a bot, is to have no friends (followers or through friend book), not be in a neighbourghood, not helping anyone, not asking for help and not putting anything in the paper. That takes "some" (/that's a sarcastic "some") of the fun out of the game. So if you think, you have come about a bot, report it to SuperCell otherwise just keep gaming!

It is a bit like computer viruses the only way to be sure, not to run into them, is to stay permantly off-line.

I don't understand why, whenever someone posts about harassing buying behaviour (and I mean prolonged, constant harrassment not simple occasional or short-term mystery buying), new people come out of the woodwork to defend this behaviour and tell us how we should feel and how we should play.

LMTP and Nest, I feel truly bad for you. IMO there's no excuse for this type of long-term parasitic buying. It's greed and selfishness, plain and simple.

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Originally Posted by shepherdgirl

I don't understand why, whenever someone posts about harassing buying behaviour (and I mean prolonged, constant harrassment not simple occasional or short-term mystery buying), new people come out of the woodwork to defend this behaviour and tell us how we should feel and how we should play.

LMTP and Nest, I feel truly bad for you. IMO there's no excuse for this type of long-term parasitic buying. It's greed and selfishness, plain and simple.

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I doubt anyone is defending harassment. If a player has a follower or someone on the friends list, that - for whatever reason - annoys them in any way, just remove them or block them out. If it someone you have helped, then the list is not up for long, so just try to avoid putting anything, you don't want them to buy in the roadshop for a short period of time.

Buying and selling is an essentiel part of Hay Day, and if you only want to sell to your friends in the neighbourghood, then don't put products up for sale in your roadshop. Easy! Then no strangers will come and "steal" your products.

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Originally Posted by L26

I doubt anyone is defending harassment. If a player has a follower or someone on the friends list, that - for whatever reason - annoys them in any way, just remove them or block them out. If it someone you have helped, then the list is not up for long, so just try to avoid putting anything, you don't want them to buy in the roadshop for a short period of time.

Buying and selling is an essentiel part of Hay Day, and if you only want to sell to your friends in the neighbourghood, then don't put products up for sale in your roadshop. Easy! Then no strangers will come and "steal" your products.

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You cannot possibly understand this until it happens to you :facepalm:

Bigotry? Last I checked, bots violated the terms of the game.

Especially when they are then sold on the black market for real cash.

Again, this entire thread hasn't been about bots. Bots are not people. Why is this so difficult to understand? I'm not talking about people buying from my shop after I help fill their crates. I'm talking about bots. Can we please just stick to the original topic?

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Originally Posted by L26

I doubt anyone is defending harassment. If a player has a follower or someone on the friends list, that - for whatever reason - annoys them in any way, just remove them or block them out. If it someone you have helped, then the list is not up for long, so just try to avoid putting anything, you don't want them to buy in the roadshop for a short period of time.

Buying and selling is an essentiel part of Hay Day, and if you only want to sell to your friends in the neighbourghood, then don't put products up for sale in your roadshop. Easy! Then no strangers will come and "steal" your products.

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Sorry. But you clearly don't get it - and I really really hope you never get infected with the code buyer bots. These aren't people. This isn't fair play. These are thieves who are stealing things to sell for real money.

Maybe you don't know what it's like to need 3 last screws for an upgrade or something....ask your hood, delightedly go to buy them from a helpful friend, and instantly see them sold because they were bought by a buyer bot before any human could....I guess that's just tough luck.

sorry I sound annoyed, but if hay day wanted all goods available to strangers, than advertising would be mandatory. But I'm pretty sure trading, collaboration, and sharing are big goals - and everyone gets lopsided tool drops.

Buyer bots are thieves, pure and simple.