Quoted earlier by MDKII

" the official answer is that we do not use bots, we do not use employees to bid against individual players in hopes of making them spend more tokens. It's underhanded and it's not something we'd ever even consider doing. The game has 15 million people log in each month, so the chances of you encountering some very determined players is quite high."

Quote taken from the official answer to this topic, posted on another thread today by MDKII.

There's nothing more to be said.