Negative gold!

[Flekkie]

Players HAVE been outright banned for doing this in the past. Controlling the AH is a bad idea if somebody notices and reports you.

The only instance of this I've heard of is in conjunction with an RMT firm that was manipulating the market on several servers to both make a killing in-game and drive up the prices to encourage gold buying. AH domination by itself has not gotten anyone I've known into trouble.

I kind of sort of remember something about addons being banned or diabled from working because they automated detection of abnormally low priced items, and buying and re-selling them. Was it called bottom loader, or was that something else?

But I could just be making it up - memory is a bit hazy

[aboron]

I kind of sort of remember something about addons being banned or diabled from working because they automated detection of abnormally low priced items, and buying and re-selling them. Was it called bottom loader, or was that something else?

But I could just be making it up - memory is a bit hazy

That was bottom feeder:
http://forums.norganna.org/discussio...d-indefinetly/

It wasn't the automated detection of abnormally low prices that they didn't like, it was the fact that it could also be set to automatically _buy_ all of those items instantly and without user interaction. Though it could just as easily bite the buyer in the ass if they had bad settings or invalid scan data. (Like someone puts up hundreds of mining picks at 9999g for a week straight, then starts putting them up for 20g - bam, it just buys a bunch at tons over vendor)

The new incarnation of it was renamed bottom scanner and it can only popup a window alerting you to a deal and asking you if you want to bid/buy (so you have to be at the computer paying attention to get it).