[Animats]

Didn't it come out that there was some pre-existing commercial relationship between buyer and seller? Was this a real transaction?

[coderintherye]

Yes, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26453970

[texasbigdata]

So if you buy two things from one vendor, where the first time you had a good experience, it’s now fake?

That’s like the core crux of SaaS!

[ghego1]

I think that the point is that the price paid for transaction two might not reflect just the value of transaction two, but also part of transaction one. This would imply that the two parties are collaborating to inflate prices. Which in art is not difficult to imagine since both parties have a very strong interest to report inflated prices.