Coins Wipes for Distribution

I know you’ve all heard this before but I thought I would share my story anyway.

I just had 5.5 million coins wiped from my account by EA. I made 5 million from buying the crystal step up offer. Although expensive, it gave me a good way to get a good supply of guaranteed coins. Then I few days ago I thought I would try making some coins from buying and selling offensive linemen from theme teams I thought might be in demand. I wasn’t selling at the e max amount but was able to make a few hundred thousand coins over a few days. It seemed like a good and reasonable way to make some coins. 

I’ve spent about $500 on Madden this year. Made some coins from the auction house after thinking I should learn to do this so I didn’t have to keep buying packs in the store.

It seems unreasonable to me to take the coins I spent real money on. 

Anyway, thanks for listening. I’ve been on the fence about sticking with Madden, I think this helps me make the decision to pack it in.

At this point there is so much info on twitter, these forums, youtube about these auto ban bots hitting people. It's hard to have sympathy for people trying to markup any random cards for a 10k+ profit. Anything over 15% markup of average median seems to be enough for an auto ban bot to get you. I hope everyone can learn from others mistakes instead of learning the hard way like this. Sorry they essentially stole your money, I hope if you go through the appeal process that you can get your coins back.

Thanks for the reply. That was the reason I posted, to helpfully save a few others. I wasn’t making big coins in the LTD market. Seems pretty reasonable to me but clearly I outsmarted myself!

I tried looking into EA Help, seems like there really isn’t any help behind EA Help. No email that I can find. I love the game, so it’s kinda sad to walk away.

TheNickSix said:

At this point there is so much info on twitter, these forums, youtube about these auto ban bots hitting people. It's hard to have sympathy for people trying to markup any random cards for a 10k+ profit. Anything over 15% markup of average median seems to be enough for an auto ban bot to get you. I hope everyone can learn from others mistakes instead of learning the hard way like this. Sorry they essentially stole your money, I hope if you go through the appeal process that you can get your coins back.

You are apart of the problem. There is no reason to be getting banned for doing absolutely nothing wrong. I understand they could be worried about buying coins, but it isn’t hard to track if cards are being resold. Nothing illegal happened, and if that’s the case, they just need to get rid of the auction house atp. Why have it if we can’t utilize it? We can’t sell cards? Why would you want to play a game like this?

I understand this is reality and I like to live in reality, but reality is: is that Madden is the only simulation NFL game, and right now the player has zero power over this. So the more we speak up, the better chance of change, compared to if nothing is ever said because this is the only video game that has ultimate fantasy football that you can play online. This is our game just as much as it is EA’s and the NFL

teedeeaye said:

You are apart of the problem. There is no reason to be getting banned for doing absolutely nothing wrong. I understand they could be worried about buying coins, but it isn’t hard to track if cards are being resold. Nothing illegal happened, and if that’s the case, they just need to get rid of the auction house atp. Why have it if we can’t utilize it? We can’t sell cards? Why would you want to play a game like this?

I understand this is reality and I like to live in reality, but reality is: is that Madden is the only simulation NFL game, and right now the player has zero power over this. So the more we speak up, the better chance of change, compared to if nothing is ever said because this is the only video game that has ultimate fantasy football that you can play online. This is our game just as much as it is EA’s and the NFL

Right, but if you know something is gonna trigger an auto bot to do a coin wipe for distribution and you do it anyways? That makes me the problem? 🤔

I was banned last year for this too, I came back this year and dialed down the profit I try to make.

I average 4 or 5 flips a day around 100-240k profit flipping LTDs, luckily havent been banned this year.

You will lose the appeal unless you can prove they are targeting you specifically. Its their game and currency, sadly until everyone raises a big fit i don't think anything will be done.

TheNickSix said:

Right, but if you know something is gonna trigger an auto bot to do a coin wipe for distribution and you do it anyways? That makes me the problem? 🤔

Just seems as if they're venting at you for daring to speak the truth.

acomplixsituation said:

Just seems as if they're venting at you for daring to speak the truth.

The logic is just crazy, every year there’s 20+ posts on here of “I got a coin wipe because…” and 90% of the time they either are flipping low elites on popular theme teams, or they sniped an LTD and then posted it for 1000% markup because it was the only one on the auction house. 

I just hope people can learn from this so it doesn’t keep happening. 

Obviously ea and whatever they are doing is the problem, but if this game is already hard for you, don’t go make it harder.

He prolly sold 5 Barkleys for 2 million and bougfht them when they were cheap

That's why I call cap on these dudes who claim NMS but they have 5+ million coins in S1.

Like I stated back then, there is no money in auction house anymore. You losers need to just admit you spend money on the game and keep it moving.

DWTM22 said:

I know you’ve all heard this before but I thought I would share my story anyway.

I just had 5.5 million coins wiped from my account by EA. I made 5 million from buying the crystal step up offer. Although expensive, it gave me a good way to get a good supply of guaranteed coins. Then I few days ago I thought I would try making some coins from buying and selling offensive linemen from theme teams I thought might be in demand. I wasn’t selling at the e max amount but was able to make a few hundred thousand coins over a few days. It seemed like a good and reasonable way to make some coins. 

I’ve spent about $500 on Madden this year. Made some coins from the auction house after thinking I should learn to do this so I didn’t have to keep buying packs in the store.

It seems unreasonable to me to take the coins I spent real money on. 

Anyway, thanks for listening. I’ve been on the fence about sticking with Madden, I think this helps me make the decision to pack it in.

Chargeback.

OOG said:

That's why I call cap on these dudes who claim NMS but they have 5+ million coins in S1.

Like I stated back then, there is no money in auction house anymore. You losers need to just admit you spend money on the game and keep it moving.

This just isn't true.

- NMS*

(Bought Deluxe Edition, haven't spent my 4600 Points yet.)

TheNickSix said:

At this point there is so much info on twitter, these forums, youtube about these auto ban bots hitting people. It's hard to have sympathy for people trying to markup any random cards for a 10k+ profit. Anything over 15% markup of average median seems to be enough for an auto ban bot to get you. I hope everyone can learn from others mistakes instead of learning the hard way like this. Sorry they essentially stole your money, I hope if you go through the appeal process that you can get your coins back.

I don't see why the legitimate use of the Auction House (legitimate meaning both, 1) Complying with Terms of Use, and, 2) Not utilizing pricing meant to deceive dyslexic users) should ever qualify as wrong. If you post an item when demand outstrips supply, you should expect a good return.

DWTM22 said:

I know you’ve all heard this before but I thought I would share my story anyway.

I just had 5.5 million coins wiped from my account by EA. I made 5 million from buying the crystal step up offer. Although expensive, it gave me a good way to get a good supply of guaranteed coins. Then I few days ago I thought I would try making some coins from buying and selling offensive linemen from theme teams I thought might be in demand. I wasn’t selling at the e max amount but was able to make a few hundred thousand coins over a few days. It seemed like a good and reasonable way to make some coins. 

I’ve spent about $500 on Madden this year. Made some coins from the auction house after thinking I should learn to do this so I didn’t have to keep buying packs in the store.

It seems unreasonable to me to take the coins I spent real money on. 

Anyway, thanks for listening. I’ve been on the fence about sticking with Madden, I think this helps me make the decision to pack it in.

Dude just uninstall and never play another EA game again. I would be so pissed.