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ebay failure.
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 6:31 pm
by 3DOKid
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 6:42 pm
by Trev
Are they like 'Choose your own adventure books' or something?
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 2:34 am
by BryWI
I count 17
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 7:29 am
by 3DOKid
The listing is says something like RRP: £74.99 and the buy it now is listed at £99
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 5:24 pm
by FrumpleOrz
Somebody's using automated pricing methods! Didja ever see this?
http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
Pretty nuts stuff.
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 9:02 pm
by 3DO Experience
So that's what's going on with the video game prices.........
Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2012 6:22 pm
by FrumpleOrz
3DO Experience wrote:So that's what's going on with the video game prices.........
Yeah, it's waaaaaay more prevalent on Amazon on eBay because it's easier to know that you're competing with the same item, since it's in that centralized ASIN. I work in IT for a online retailer and we've made pricers and stuff for the various venues we sell on. We only sell new products and not any sort of collectable item, so it's a lot more straight forward than collectables or something.
It's pretty interesting once you know how that stuff works. You can watch specific sellers and change your price around to figure out exactly what percentage their repricer is set at and force their prices back up and stuff like that. I find that kind of stuff fascinating but I guess that's why I'm in IT, huh?