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Is there any aspect of that book that motivates that price?
by mongol 13y ago
Is there any aspect of that book that motivates that price?
- anigbrowl 13y agoNo, it's just automated pricing based on it being rare. You set a high price, other pricing bots come in and undercut it - unless the book is sufficiently rare or obscure, in which case the high price remains. Funnily enough, my book is a good example of this. There's three copies on Amazon, priced within 1 cent of each other: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1898275351/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1898275351/ref=dp_olp... It was one of the elss well-selling ones in the series so it's become 'rare' by virtue of its own obscurity, rather than inherent merit of its own :-)
- JonnieCache 13y agoNote to self: set up own pricing bot to bid rare books down to cheap rates and then snap them up. Finally that copy of the Dune Encyclopedia will be mine! EDIT: Apparently it can be had for only £15 now. How depressing.
- ijk 13y agoObscure used books on Amazon tend to get automatically bid up to astronomical prices, as the repricing bots mistake the noise of an empty market for a signal: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358 http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358 As of this moment, the most expensive book on Amazon is going for one billion dollars: http://www.amazon.com/s?rh=n%3A283155&field-is-available-new=1&ie=UTF8#/ref=sr_st?qid=1303657895&rh=n%3A283155&sort=inversepricerank http://www.amazon.com/s?rh=n%3A283155&field-is-available-new...
- anigbrowl 13y agoThere's an insurance scam just waiting to happen here.