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Re:Scrape like the big boys by wolverine876 on Friday November 05, 2021 @02:30PM (#29123073)
> But our most fruitful effort was when we removed limits and started giving "bad" data. By bad I mean alter the price up or down by a small percentage. ... If the customer made a transaction on the altered figure we we informed them and took it at the correct price.

Is that legal? It would be a big blow to trust if I was the customer, but that's without knowing what you were selling and in what market.

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Re:Scrape like the big boys by killingtime74 on Friday November 05, 2021 @03:45PM (#29123932)
It’s legal if it’s in the contract. Standard for contracts to allow for mistakes and confirmations of prices
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Re:Scrape like the big boys by kwhitefoot on Friday November 05, 2021 @05:21PM (#29124864)
It's not mistake if you do it deliberately!
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Re:Scrape like the big boys by killingtime74 on Friday November 05, 2021 @06:35PM (#29125457)
Yes (not saying it's a mistake) but putting confirmation can be in the contract, no law says you only get 1 chance to display price.
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