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by pure-awesome 2343 days ago
My goodness, would you look at that! Luckily the paperback is only 1% the price, so solid deal there!

I thought it's a data entry error, but no, it looks like that's the legitimate price range for the NEW hardcovers (the actual listed ones are even more!):

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0007JVUSK/ref=dp_ol...

It's either a ripoff, or some sort of collector's edition original versions. Though if it were the latter, I'd have expected it to be advertised as such.

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They’re priced by different algorithms that “outbid” each other.
Do they start them at $1'000 and let them bid down from there?
This isn't exactly related, but it's one of my favorite blog posts.

http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358

One of the algorithms could be capped at $1000 for their inventory.