Scarlet Barawan

That's all I had to say. Do not believe any of the problems will be fixed since I had seen no improvement in any of the years prior, but it is always worth trying to change how thing are. Hope my mini essay will get somewhere to someone and something will change for the better. I can even write actual bug reports just to get the thing fixed. Will monitor this thread for a few days after this.

I had a chat with a person in support. I will localize my problems with the bot, other then pulverize my confusion. 1. It does to offer a full stock of cards it has. 100%, this is a fact. I could count the cards manually, but I don't need to. It becomes obvious if you look at card sets, in the row "Cards in Stock", there you can see that the bot for example has 23 cards available, 5 of them forming a single full set of cards it has. If I would to buy a set then 18 of the cards remaining would not appear in a catalog to be bought manually, they will just vanish, which leads to a problem namba too. 2. Some cards are either in sets or in catalog, but never in both. Example: there is a possibility that you can buy a full foil CS:GO cards set from a bot's manual catalog, just a full sets all at once in single trade. BUT! It will never appear in "Sets" tab. Never have I ever seen a full foil CS:GO set for sale there. Just like I've never seen a single Skullgirls foil in a catalog for example, even though I've bought a complete set from "Sets" not so long ago. So there we have it, a problem number 3. 3. Cards are hardcoded to not be shown. I am certain of it. I am 100% sure that some cards are coded to only be sold in sets, and some in catalog. And it is kind of understandable, but it leads to card not being shown. Just before it stopped working right now it showed that it has 42 sets in stock, while I could only see and buy only 3. Cards in catalog are the same thing. Support member made a point that steam's API also has a big part in not showing bot's inventory, and yes, API's an old stinky pile of broken bad garbage. But the bot knows that it has 18 more cards, it sees them, and is still not showing them. And for all the cards that it does not see because of API: 4. There is only so much 1 bot can do with 500k cards inventory. 510000 items in bot's inventory actually probably lead to a good portion of them not getting featured in it's stock because it simply can not load them all at once. I am not 100% sure, but I am decently confident that a long time ago there were actually 2 different bots doing all the work, compared to 1 struggling right now. I do not think API can or will ever be fixed, so to me the only solution to a problem is to just host a second one. But what do I know. Minor 5. Prices. Yeah. Would be a dream come true to a make a profit off of any card the bot has to offer, but can't brag too much. Some cards are just too expansive, sometime even more then market's prices. Since bot pays like 0.22 for a card it then sells for 2, would be nice to have some better pricing. Also I believe that it's contributing to "510k items" problem slowly, but it's still a humble brag from me. Minor 6. Trades crushing. Yeah, sometimes this, sometimes that. No "eligibility for trading" confirmation, err 22, err 16, etc. Pretty sure it's Steam's problem, nothing to be done here. Just had to say this.

I texted live support saying that card bot was working really badly recently. Problems are: always different sets to buy, often having nothing in common with reality and bots inventory, always different cards to buy, often having nothing in common with reality and bots inventory as they are just a fraction of it's real inventory, crashing trades and overall VERY, VERY bad performance. Also I made the point how support was always closed in past few year, so I only texted them now. To which they responded: 1. We are always working, you're wrong 2. There are no sets because they are being bought out quickly 3. It is what it is After which he just closed a convo, and here I am, sitting here for 2 hours, looking at "You are in position 1" screen, hoping I can chat with them again some time soon. So what is this about? Bot is BROKEN, utterly and completely, just now it's showing "42 sets available", while I can see and buy only 3. No new cards to buy, like it's not getting restocked, and I don't believe in this. It's been like this for a years now, even though the prices it offers became so high recently, it's cheaper to buy cards for market now in some cases. And the support? "We are always working, you're wrong!". And then just closes convo and ignores me for hours. Maybe there should've been no support after all. I'm copying this text in case it gets insta deleted. I want for stuff to get the bot fixed, it has been unbearable to use for years.