This is how you profit VS trade post bots
If it is a worthless item, why is someone buying it?
worthless as in , 2,x silver item , rising the price to 1g , then making him buy it from you
Congrats to the OP for making a killing in the market. I hope that they are able to repeat their success again. However, let’s not assume that they were dealing with bots.
Instead, they were likely playing chicken with many other short-term profiteers. There are tons of ways to keep track of whether we are getting outbid & some people follow them blindly, which makes it easier for folks like the OP to profit from the impatience of others.
Bots are unlikely to purchase only a stack or spend an extra 700g on said stack, without realizing it. However, speculators will sometimes see items rising quickly in price and attempt to buy low so they can sell high (just as the OP did).