HALF-Price Books is At It Again!

[Black Jack Rackham]

Not content with the usury fees of Sophia's Daughters and The Player's Guide, they're now asking 371.27 for this...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Crescent-Empire ... 53fb8106e8

[Black Jack Rackham]

AND not to let those jerkwads up in Columbus bilk their customers all alone, Dallas HPB has THE VERY SAME BOOK, for 360.46

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Crescent-Empire ... 485744f3af

[svensven]

Wow... I had no idea I was sitting on a gold mine with all my 7th Sea books

[Black Jack Rackham]

I'd sell my copy for half that... A BARGAIN!!

[Black Jack Rackham]

Columbus is upping the ante, doubling their price to 768.43!

[Black Jack Rackham]

Meanwhile, Dallas, sensing Columbus has overplayed their hand, opts for the more conservative raise to 580.37.

[Black Jack Rackham]

Now they're just messing with me. Both have gone to over $900!

[Black Jack Rackham]

Ok, I just don't have words... $1896.78...no that's not a typo, WTF are they thinking?!?!

[salamanca]

Some disgruntled employee is having fun with the account.

Now if it pays off, he is in line for promotion. if it does not... the book sits on the shelf.

[spizio]

I read a news article once about a bot program that online stores can use to set prices. It is based off of available prices for similar items it finds online. There was a similar situation where 2 retailers using it had a ridiculous run up in price on an item they seemed to be the only 2 sellers of online. That is until a human noticed and the pricing dropped. This may be what is happening.

It has been a couple of years but I may try searching it out.

[Black Jack Rackham]

I read a news article once about a bot program that online stores can use to set prices. It is based off of available prices for similar items it finds online. There was a similar situation where 2 retailers using it had a ridiculous run up in price on an item they seemed to be the only 2 sellers of online. That is until a human noticed and the pricing dropped. This may be what is happening.

It has been a couple of years but I may try searching it out.

It has to be this, they're at 4k each now... (Yes $4,000)

[Black Jack Rackham]

So after I finally gave in and emailed them the prices dropped back to (somewhat) reasonable levels. I figured they'd finally gotten their act together, right?

Nope. I'm puttering around last night and dallas-hpb's Crescent book has hit 5k...