Go Forth and Multiply
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How to Set Your Pricing Algorithm
On Amazon, you can set your pricing algorithmically. Some people just go on by the cheapest copy. Someone else had an algorithm which would find the cheapest copy and set their copy to be 27% more expensive. And like all good lazy programmers, they hadn't dealt with edge cases. So there mustn't have been a upper threshold or any kind of human intervention in the system and it just raced away. But this is sweet vengeance for every time you two on this podcast or in real life or in any of our shows have gone like programming. It saves the world. Yay.
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