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A significant portion are grey market "ISPs" that purport to sell residential services but actually never do. They sell these "residential" IPs to Amazon, othe
by 0xy 5y ago
A significant portion are grey market "ISPs" that purport to sell residential services but actually never do.
They sell these "residential" IPs to Amazon, other ecommerce retailers and shady people for an extreme price.
In the e-commerce world, scraping is necessary to stay in business. Amazon has armies of scrapers constantly monitoring their competitors, and in some cases automatically undercutting price updates.
- Scoundreller 5y agoSame on the consumer side. I like setting up alerts on camelcamelcamel and seeing price history (to make sure I'm not getting screwed) and to buy buy buy when prices hit a certain theshold.