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Re:Amazon has made a change to the way it sells books, which... by rahimnathwani on Saturday May 20, 2017 @06:46PM (#14384767)
How would an offer which is out of stock win the buy box? I'm pretty sure that if there's at least one seller with stock, that the buy box would show one of them.
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Re:Amazon has made a change to the way it sells books, which... by tkxxx7 on Saturday May 20, 2017 @08:49PM (#14385178)
Did you read the article? This was mentioned and multiple tweets were quoted.
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Re:Amazon has made a change to the way it sells books, which... by rahimnathwani on Monday May 22, 2017 @01:33AM (#14391224)
Yes, I did. And followed the links in the Tweets. The article suggests that it's possible that the buy box winner is out of stock, whilst at least one seller (Amazon or a third party seller, e.g. the publisher) is in stock. The tweets don't assert that. The links and screenshots referred to by the tweets also demonstrate no such thing.

Specifically, regarding the tweets:

- One of the links is to an Amazon page. The winner of the buy box when I open the page is 'In stock'

- The other link is to a HuffPo article, which contains some screenshots. The screenshots include buy boxes, but none of the screenshots show a buy box that's been won by an out-of-stock seller.

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