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Default O.T. Amazon Pricing

On 03/26/2017 05:17 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
On 3/26/17 5:09 PM, philo wrote:
On 03/26/2017 04:47 PM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
From the Wall Street Journal:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-high-speed-trading-behind-your-amazon-purchase-1490532110



or http://alturl.com/tqrpk





Need a subscription to see the full article, what did it say?


That it's a lot like day trading with computers driving the pricing.
Click on http://www.drudgereport.com The article is on
the left about
a third of the way down. Look for "The High-Speed Trading Behind
Your AMAZON Purchase..." I hit the link there and only had to
x an ad on the WSJ
article to see it.




Ok . by going to drudgereport I was able to get the article by just
clicking the "x"

I know I've seen a lot of listings on Amazon that simply use web
crawlers to list everything they come across and just add a few $$$ to
the price.

Most anyone Internet savvy is not going to fall for it though but I
guess they can try