[2019] Market Scalpers and bots are ruining Tarkov's flea market.

Originally posted by dumnem

The Cold Fear balaclava is now another of their victims. They were buying a ton and reselling for a profit, and now it's limited to 5 per restock.

I use one in pretty much every raid as an aesthetic choice, and it helps identifying members within my squad as well as letting us blend in in shadowy surfaces a little better.

A lot of these problems (reselling) can be solved by simply fixing the default filters for the flea market. It should be sorted automatically by lowest price first with 'Exclude Merchant Offers' REMOVED so that they always show! Preferably with an additional indicator that that's the official merchant's price.

I'm all for a free market and normally I wouldn't care if people resold but their antics are being a giant pain in the ass for the playerbase because they're forcing items, even balaclavas, to be limited on a personal stock to be used. Fixing the default filters will go a long way to de-incentivize players from falling for their scams.

BSG REALLY needs to reign in bots/scripters/macros as well who purchase items automatically because they're causing issues with ammo supply, which caused the initial restock limit of purchasable ammo.

To be honest each individual should just have a very large supply to draw from individually (for most rounds, several thousand bullets), Combining this with the previous filters change will mean that they are de-incentivized from selling ammo on the market because it's no longer able to be completely bought out, but if they want to sell acquired ammo from the market then they can at rates higher than the merchant buys them for but lower than they sell for, further reducing incentive to reset-camp the merchants to buy limited ammo stock.