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by iLoveOncall 1364 days ago
To anyone considering reading the article, there isn't much more substance than a guy stumbling upon a book that is listed on Amazon for an absurd price.
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Did you miss the part where they reverse engineered the pricing algorithm? What exactly were you expecting here?
They didn't reverse engineer anything. They made false assumptions based on nothingness.
I'm curious how you know that the assumptions they made are false and what the correct metric to look at for REing a pricing algorithm would be if historical price is "nothingness".
and that it might be an automated price setting algorithm responsible..