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> Manufactured scarcity is crucial to a bot’s notoriety, says a person who knows the sneaker industry and asked to remain anonymous for employment concerns. It
by lamontcg 4y ago
> Manufactured scarcity is crucial to a bot’s notoriety, says a person who knows the sneaker industry and asked to remain anonymous for employment concerns. It lets us imagine the sea of PS5s that could be ours, if only we could breach through that locked door. “Creating FOMO is part of the business plan,” the person says.
Are you a programmer that wants some internet fame and name notoriety?
Write an open source bot that is free for everyone to use which duplicates these kinds of features, but is geared more towards the average person who just wants to score a single ps/5.
Flood the bot market with competition.
- tragiclos 4y agoWhile I would certainly welcome such a project, I wonder if a truly open source bot would be hampered by the fact that online retailers could view the source and proactively circumvent whatever strategy it implements.
- IshKebab 4y agoBut if they wanted to stop scalpers they could do it trivially by limiting purchases per credit card or address or whatever. Seems more likely that they don't care.
- lamontcg 4y agoI'm pretty sure they could look at their web requests and stop the proprietary bots almost just as easily.
- ALittleLight 4y agoWould they? If you just send requests to Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, whatever for "check if item is in stock, if yes buy" and loop once a minute why would the retailer implement something to stop you?
- brokenodometer 4y agoExist(ted) for GPUs, unsure if it still works. https://github.com/Hari-Nagarajan/fairgame https://github.com/Hari-Nagarajan/fairgame
- slim 4y agoit would be undistinguishable from Low Orbit Ion Cannon