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Re:The State of Web Scraping 2022 by mymllnthaccount on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @12:18PM (#29909772)
By queuing, do you mean first come first serve?

No, that causes the problem. That encourages people to use bots to be the first one to purchase the moment the inventory is released.

I don't understand how a random raffle would ever not be fair (with the assumption that one person gets only one entry)

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Re:The State of Web Scraping 2022 by Arnavion on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @01:32PM (#29910967)
That assumption doesn't seem like it'd hold. You'd just replace bot services with package forwarding services that can generate unique PO Box numbers or whatever.
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