Grand Raffles or Moar Bots?

[milk jam]

I've recently been on Scrap.tf an the market is saturated to the brim with items,so what could be the solution it's simple and not that simple.
 
     For one they could host raffles on items that over saturated to the brim with,such as the massive amounts of Lady Killers and Dogfighters in the hat space. (Especially the Items section,plz help!)
 
      The next is to create more bots for more expensive sections like Items or stranges, However this would take a long time and it would stress Geel out a lot.
 
If you have any other solutions plz add in the descriptions. 

[Tweets]

Neither of these would fix the underlying issues, unfortunately.

 

There are lots of hats, and this is because lots of people want metal and don't want hats. The solution to this is finding a way to make people want metal less, so that it becomes equal to their desire for hats - an equilibrium -, rather than to 'quick-fix' it and just dump off hats. Not only would just giving hats away ruin the equilibrium, it would also drain away the profit the hatbanking system makes, making it pointless to operate.

 

For Items, that system has a small number of bots so that the PM for that system can easily track the items and manipulate the prices we buy and sell for to correct the market. There is an enforced equilibrium - metal and keys from Items does not leave Items, and metal/keys from other bot types does not enter it. This is to allow the tracking of what happens in that system for the PM's sake, and so just adding more bots with more metal wouldn't solve any issues with it.

 

So while these are solutions to a percieved problem, they're the equivalent of a plaster over an infected wound - it looks like it does some good, and in the short term it will, but it's not solving the bigger issue underneath.