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Amazon should do popular items like this using a lottery system to hurt the advantage bots, scripts, and people with lower latency have. - You can enter the it
by UnoriginalGuy 10y ago
Amazon should do popular items like this using a lottery system to hurt the advantage bots, scripts, and people with lower latency have.
- You can enter the item lottery for a longer period (e.g. 60 minutes).
- Lottery winners are picked at random, not based on entry time.
- Max one entry per household (remove entries with duplicate mailing addresses, duplicate credit cards, and duplicate email addresses).
- Once someone wins they have a window to purchase (e.g. 3 hours). If they fail to purchase then the lottery picks a new winner.
Now obviously cheats will still exist, but at least they're all on a fairer playing field with normal purchasers.
- gohrt 10y agoMBA Interview pro-tip: Amazon should make NES a Prime-only item.
- mrfusion 10y agoWow very smart! How do businesses not think of these things? I even got an impression from their nes classic page like they were saying "meh, we are not really sure if we sell this why do you want it"
- Jach 10y agohttps://www.amazon.com/treasuretruck https://www.amazon.com/treasuretruck had it today.
- btgeekboy 10y agoAlso sold out in minutes.