That explains why I bought a book from a new vendor which never arrived. I
finally got my money back, and the vendor was kicked off Amazon.
"For the wickedness of the world is such that you have to keep running to
keep your legs from being stolen." Bertold Brecht.
Jack
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Richard Ewald <richard.ewald@gmail.com>wrote:
> Here is the blog site where the author tracked the pricing. I was wrong
> earlier, the price of the book went up to $23,698,655.93.
> Twenty three million dollars for a book about flies.
> Worth the read.
> http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
> Rick
>
> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Richard Ewald <richard.ewald@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I saw a discussion about this on a message board a while back.
>> In that particular case it was a book that had zoomed in price to over
>> $1,200.00.
>> It turned out there were two sellers that had a copy. They each had a
>> robot program that repriced their book based on what the other sellers had
>> it for.
>> As I recall one seller has his robot to up the price by 35% or so, and
>> the other seller had his set to undercut the other sellers by a few
>> percent. Someone got a copy of the price raises and each one was exactly
>> the same percent for each seller.
>> The net result was over time a 6 dollar book was listed for an obscene
>> amount of $
>> Rick
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