Amazon reportedly used a secret algorithm to jack up prices — A new report details Amazon’s Project Nessie pricing algorithm::Amazon deployed a secret algorithm to gauge how high it could raise prices before its competitors stopped increasing their prices as well.

      • CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Ah I am incorrect. I was thinking of woot. Though they did shut down during the pandemic at Amazon’s request

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          1 year ago

          Yeah ever since then CCC has felt sort of unreliable to me. If they’re willing to let Amazon tell them what data they can show once, they’re willing to do it again. Maybe they’re even doing it on an ongoing basis.