# Massive surge in market competition in the last few days **URL:** \ **Category:** Market Discussions\ **Created:** [January 27, 2019, 10:24pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/massive-surge-in-market-competition-in-the-last-few-days/136313 "2019-01-27T22:24:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![Mathra](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/mathra/32/416373_2.png) [@Mathra](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Mathra)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2019, 2:25pm UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/massive-surge-in-market-competition-in-the-last-few-days/136313/7 "2019-01-28T14:25:50Z")
> [@Market Bots - The market is saturated and something needs to be done asap- Read!](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/market-bots-the-market-is-saturated-and-something-needs-to-be-done-asap-read/37128): > > I’ve put up a number of posts concerning bots of late. Till recently I thought the bots were focusing exclusively on the same area of modules which I deal with, namely POS structures etc. However, I recently had call to sell and purchase a lot of items elsewhere across the market and I noticed what appeared to be the same botting mechanics / buy / sell orders on many other items. In short, it now appears anything which is flagged up as having a sizable gap between buy / sell (the bread and butt… Posted back in Nov 2017, and despite all CCP’s promises, its still saturated. I unsubbed my accounts 6 months back after playing for 10 years. Came back 2 months ago on the back of CCP promises to fix the botters. Carefully identified and reported 40 plus Jita market bots which are logged in 24/7, and guess what happened, nothing. They still log in daily, 24/7, 2 months post reporting. Markets screwed, if you trade high volumes / amounts then simply put you are wasting your time. Likewise, I agree with you concerning this section of the forum, basically dead, couple of posts a day. 90% of the hard core traders have either now left Eve due to bots, or moved onto some other area of income for their isk. The market forum used to really buzz with speculation and stories of deals, not any more --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/massive-surge-in-market-competition-in-the-last-few-days/136313)._