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Botting and Auto-bans

wozoki

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Hey guys! This is a thread I'm making after something happened to me which make me think.

Ok so first a little background about my botting and RMTing
I have been botting for YEARS (since glider) and i have NEVER gotten any bans or suspension. Why? Im not sure. But i gotta be doing something right.
The last year i have had four to six bots running continuously 9 to 12 hours a day with no breaks. Always started them at about 11-12 when going to bed and stopped them whenever i woke up. Most of you would consider this pushing it to the limit with no supervision or breaks. But believe it or not, i never ran into any issues with blizzard. I was untouchable at the time.

The last few months I had a break. This was mostly due to the price being SO low.
But recently i decided to give it another shot, and is hoping that MOP will bring back "the old days"
My problem was that i have gotten lazy/er. Before i was ALWAYS posting all my auctions myself, same with the CODs. But now, HB has gotten allot better so i wanted to try to make things easier with the Professionbuddy AH profile.
This went just fine for a few days until all my accounts got the hammer... The reason they gave me was "abuse of economy" and gave permanent ban. Of course I appealed and they gave me a 72hr suspension for the use of Third Party Software.
Good enough. But why? This has been stuck in my brain ever since the bans occurred. Since i started up again my botting schedule was safer (lots of breaks and less total botting per day)
Honestly, the only thing that was different was the use of PB AH.

Now, since the bans obviously was a auto-ban my theory is that it was the PB AH that triggered it. I did use the default settings for some time until i changed it.
Keep in mind this is just my theory, so it might just be bullshit. But the way PB posts auctions and always has a 0.0001% (default) undercut and so on, it may be triggering something.
Other than using the PB AH everything else was just like i have done before if not safer. After the suspension is over, i will go back to post my auctions myself.

The only thing that bothers me is that there is no way i can know for sure what triggered it. Maybe Blizzard has changed what triggers an autoban (most likely i guess)
If I neved had taken that two month brake and gotten the ban two days after starting using PB AH things would be different, i guess. But still, my theory remains the same. What do you guys think?

TLDR; Is Professionbuddy AH safe?
 
@Wozoki,

Anything that makes use of the AH via Bot seems to be an issue for a rather large part of the community. In general farming or anything that isn't quest botting seems to be in constant flux these days (More so then it used to be at least). I still Bot over 12 hours a day (BGs, Questing, PB[but only to gain skill level]), I have also never been banned or had a suspension. My thought would be that either your sudden comeback triggered a flag, or yes indeed it was the AH method. I have never used the AH method but from reading the posts it does have issues with bans, maybe for it's systematical timing or the "speed of which items are posted", maybe even the items you are farming, I don't honestly know.
 
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