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freakynit 12 hours ago

This process can actually be exploited to work against amazon itself.

SilverElfin 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How? It seems constructed so that despite the high costs of doing business on Amazon (seller fees), you have to not charge more there. If you raise prices everywhere, your sales elsewhere drop. What’s the loophole?

2OEH8eoCRo0 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How?

freakynit 10 hours ago | parent [-]

By giving their scrapers false signals using dummy ecomemrce stores with artificial/dummy prices. If done constantly, it might render their scrapers useless or less reliable for buy-box algorithms.