i just want a physical paperback copy cause i have trouble staying focused on ebooks, good god. Anybody know a cheaper source??

  • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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    3 years ago

    A lot of amazon sellers use bots to figure out what to sell and how to price it. There's very few of the book available, they price it higher.

    Awhile ago there was a book seller who had a bot that would price it's all books 10% higher than the lowest price on the market.

    There was another bot that would create identical listings of other items on Amazon, but 10% higher, the strat being that they could just buy from the original.

    Well the the first bot created a listing for a book no one else was selling.

    The second bot created a listing 10% higher.

    The first bot saw that listing, and increased it's price by 10%.

    Repeat 200 times and this random book is going for 20 billion dollars