Is StubHub's Website Deceiving Users?

Re:Is StubHub's Website Deceiving Users? by jordancolburn on Monday September 11, 2017 @04:20PM (#15221929)

Yeah, but to stick with the analogy, isn't this more like putting out empty boxes of TVs that have already been sold and having employees dressed as customers frantically buying them in front of regular customers.

Thanks for reading btw, and thanks to whoever posted it here.

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Re:Is StubHub's Website Deceiving Users? by hkmurakami on Monday September 11, 2017 @07:37PM (#15223442)

Which apparently is done at some of the new hip restaurants.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/08/1...

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Re:Is StubHub's Website Deceiving Users? by seanp2k2 on Monday September 11, 2017 @10:47PM (#15224392)

Hmm, I wonder if Amazon was doing this with their new store at Santana Row in SJ: https://imgur.com/a/qSVYG

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Re:Is StubHub's Website Deceiving Users? by dyladan on Monday September 11, 2017 @04:39PM (#15222083)

If an electronics retailer could do this at no additional cost, I have no doubt that they would.

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Re:Is StubHub's Website Deceiving Users? by jmdocherty on Monday September 11, 2017 @06:16PM (#15222913)

...or like the employee just shouting rather loudly across the showroom floor to a colleague:

"Hey Joe we just sold another one of the <insert TV you happen to be looking at>. That's the 3rd one today - we better order some more before we run out of stock"

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