Timeless Jewels - Bot Acct Monopoly

Timeless Jewels, is by far likely the most abused transaction in the game by bot accounts. Unless you are familiar with the Timeless Jewel Calculator on GitHub, you are completely unaware of what your item is worth and people who use this tool, take advantage of it. This is not really my big concern.

My concern is that it's humanly impossible to beat bot accounts that are trained on Live Search to query the Jewel seed against the database and send a buy message to the seller almost instantly. These jewels are often sold at a steep discount to its actual value due to the seller having little to no idea of what it attributes are much less its value. Jewels being sold at 2-10div often are being resold for 100s of divine.

As a player, even if this mechanic is intended by GGG, the issue still remains that I cannot search fast enough to participate in the transaction. Automated accounts can do it way faster unless I just blindly purchase these items with my mouse hovering the Live Search.

Outside of banning these types of accounts, I do not know how to reign this in other than making POE not free anymore.

Last bumped on Jan 13, 2024, 3:25:09 PM
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What's the problem to check your jewel before listing it on the market?
If someone is inexperienced (I could have used a ruder word) enough to sell a very valuable timeless jewel at the wrong price, that is entirely their fault. Presumably they are running those arenas with a mind to dropping and selling timeless jewels....you don't just run emblems with no idea what you are doing except maybe the very first time.

Bots are a problem, but this issue has nothing to do with them.
Last edited by jsuslak313#7615 on Jan 13, 2024, 3:26:34 PM

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