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A comment on Amazon’s Curious Case of the $2,630.52 Used Paperback.

Re:Amazon’s Curious Case of the $2,630.52 Used Paperback by currymj on Monday July 16, 2018 @03:05PM (#17544018)
i've read about this phenomenon before. speculation was that many/most prices are set automatically, and that these absurd prices were somehow attempts to manipulate other prices.

money laundering also seems like a good explanation.

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Re:Amazon’s Curious Case of the $2,630.52 Used Paperback by jerf on Monday July 16, 2018 @03:41PM (#17544376)
Probably thinking of: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358

Laundering may explain some odd prices on Amazon. But in that article, the author witnessed the two bots one-upping each other on a certain schedule. I don't think that was laundering.

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