Merchant trading and bots

It was just a few days, and any good item on trade already disappears faster, than you can physically click on "Travel to hideout". Even if you sit here looking stright on trade page and spam click the area where button appears, the item will appear on trade being already sold, or you will be stuck on loading screen while bots are already here, instantly buying anything. And then everything appears back on trade with x10 prices.
If you won't start fighting bots and soft abusers, it will become even worse and start affecting even niche/unpopular items. Why this new system creates such a huge disadvantage for people that try to enjoy game, and gives insane advantage for those who obviously use soft to reduce loading times as much as possible and somehow see trade listings much earlier than your site shows them?

Yes, I have noticed this too. When trying to buy "quantity of items found in your maps" tablets for less than 5ex:

https://www.pathofexile.com/trade2/search/poe2/Rise%20of%20the%20Abyssal/9lpVKwKSK/live

I noticed there were a group of players (bots it seems) that were buying them faster that what seems possible. Some googling shows there are automated trade bots being advertised:

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GGG, please investigate this.

Yeah it sucks but only if you're trying to snipe underpriced items like a bot. Just buy what you need instead of trying to compete with bots and the 100+ likeminded players.


Even if there were no bots, your chance of sniping an item is 1/100 if there are 100 other players trying to snipe the item. Not worth it.

Maybe you are right and it isn't that big of a deal. It seems to me they are jacking up prices by creating artificial scarcity, I wouldn't see a problem if these are actually players sitting there for hours on end clicking the trade links but if they are automated then it seems like a problem that will get worse over time.