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Imagine paying $500 for a web scraper.

• Cyph0n 4y ago
  You’d be surprised how much effort goes into reverse engineering APIs and keeping these bots working across many sites as they get updated. I actually tried writing a simple checkout bot for Bestbuy. After a couple of hours of fiddling around, I concluded that buying a bot would be much easier than figuring out how the BB API works and keeping up with any changes. Disclaimer: I never ended up buying a bot - it was just a learning activity.
• esjeon 4y ago
  Imagine reselling PS5s with $500 margin. Not a bad deal when the market is irrational.
  • colinmhayes 4y ago
    A PS5 is easily worth $1000 to me. I don't see how buying one for $650 is irrational. I spent a few days refreshing twitter and figured it wasn't worth $150 after a year.
  • gruez 4y ago
    Irrational? If you derive enjoyment from a product, why wouldn't you want to pay to have it a bit sooner?
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