Comments on: Has Amazon lost their mind? $349 2nd Gen Nano http://www.philoking.com/2008/05/05/has-amazon-lost-their-mind-349-2nd-gen-nano/ Computing for the OS Agnostic Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:10:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Wade Dorrell http://www.philoking.com/2008/05/05/has-amazon-lost-their-mind-349-2nd-gen-nano/comment-page-1/#comment-18806 Wade Dorrell Mon, 05 May 2008 23:26:08 +0000 http://www.philoking.com/2008/05/05/has-amazon-lost-their-mind-349-2nd-gen-nano/#comment-18806 I swear I read an article about Amazon's allowed margin for error on product listings being pretty high, can't find it anymore though. With a product database as large as Amazon's, certainly approximate correctness of product listings is OK. It's odd to see it happen with what I presume is a big-volume category like iPod though... but hey, if the algorithms say people will pay it and the margins are worth more than the bad press from bloggers, why wouldn't a good AI sell old iPods at high margin to suckers for a while? Perhaps after one hit with a referer other than amazon.com to a product listing that never gets referer hits occurs, the algorithms could snap it back to the normal pricing... nothing to see here, move along. :) I swear I read an article about Amazon’s allowed margin for error on product listings being pretty high, can’t find it anymore though. With a product database as large as Amazon’s, certainly approximate correctness of product listings is OK.

It’s odd to see it happen with what I presume is a big-volume category like iPod though… but hey, if the algorithms say people will pay it and the margins are worth more than the bad press from bloggers, why wouldn’t a good AI sell old iPods at high margin to suckers for a while? Perhaps after one hit with a referer other than amazon.com to a product listing that never gets referer hits occurs, the algorithms could snap it back to the normal pricing… nothing to see here, move along. :)

]]> By: RaZella http://www.philoking.com/2008/05/05/has-amazon-lost-their-mind-349-2nd-gen-nano/comment-page-1/#comment-18803 RaZella Mon, 05 May 2008 20:22:36 +0000 http://www.philoking.com/2008/05/05/has-amazon-lost-their-mind-349-2nd-gen-nano/#comment-18803 Wow, they have lost their minds. That purchase better come with 150.00 in itunes giftcards. Wow, they have lost their minds. That purchase better come with 150.00 in itunes giftcards.

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