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I know a few people having a similar issue. It all stems from winter wildcards/old promo cards, the way they automatically update price ranges, how ea evaluates player prices (Rolling 72 hour value) and how little supply there are of cards on PC. Playstation players had this issue right before Christmas and were unbanned just DAYS later because there are more of them.
Coin sellers use those players to transfer coins and then legit traders buy and sell these cards and get banned (even just regular players often will buy and sell a pina/cruyff/ibanez for weekend league, sell them after being done and run into a similar issue).
EA has multiple forms of AUTOMATED detection, and all of them are extremely flawed, banning only uninformed and legit players, rarely banning the bots and coin seller accounts that are the problem. If you sell and buy to the same account or an account linked to the one you bought from? Ban. If you buy low and sell high? Ban. Selling at unintended ranges (even though EA updates those ranges based on a flawed methodology)? Ban. It's beyond ridiculous that this could ever ben an issue but here we are. That's to say nothing of the fact that players cannot know who they're trading with as the market is anonymous. These detection methods simply do not work, they have been figured out and "solved" by coin sellers harming only legitimate players.
This company is beyond inept. If you ban all the legitimate traders and players your market will be in an even worse state than the already flawed one it's in now.
- munfahdi12 days agoSeasoned Rookie
You just summarized the whole problem here, it is the automation!!!!!
I have no problem with the company having automated detection but in a very small market like the pc market it really isn't hard to spot coin selling, there is no way the company is completely blind to these coin selling methods that are straight up easy to notice. The problem here is that someone will ultimately need to get banned in this cycle and it will never be the person selling the coins since the automated detection is so obviously flawed. It will always be a trader that could never expect to get banned for winning bids on the market.