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Re:Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless by a123b456c on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:34AM (#24919954)
Or something else changed at the same time. Hard to know without a control group.
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Re:Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless by londons_explore on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:37AM (#24919995)
We did a randomised A/B test.

To ensure it wasn't some other wierd effect, we also fixed the bug and then deliberately re-added the same error message.

This bug was worth 15% of our revenue, so we did a lot of tests and trials...

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Re:Amazon destroys $1.5m of sellers inventory – now homeless by iosonofuturista on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:39AM (#24920028)
Do you know what an A/B test is? It has a control group by design.
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