I'm pretty sure there are snipebots now.

I'm constantly refreshing the new page on opskins. I have an addon where I can press a button and it instantly adds to cart, goes to checkout, and pays, all I have to do is accept the trade (which I dislike btw, it's a bit risky for ~150$ knives to have a button like that, however your goddamn knife can be stolen from your shopping cart, which is kind of bullshit in my opinion because IRL nobody would take something from your shopping cart. If its in your shopping cart it should be temporary yours, but whatever), and yet they are gone the second I click that button. This happened thrice in a row now, and I'm 99% sure that there are bots sniping the market. I know OPskins has a bot check already, but can there be something else done about it?

My suggestions:

  1. Shopping cart = temporarily yours, so that everyone can get it in 1 click, not just bots
  2. CAPTCHA for purchases. If possible, just make it the click one, because if not bots will snipe add the weapon up untill the captcha and the owner sitting behind it could still fill in the captcha, but still... I suppose something like this could be done?

Love the site other than that, but really dislike the sniping bots. Trying to get some cheap knives here...

Edit: quickbuy is against the rules, so I got rid of that.

Posted Feb 21, 2016, 8:44 PM UTC · edited

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