Here is the blog site where the author tracked the pricing. I was wrong
earlier, the price of the book went up to $23,698,655.93.
Twenty three million dollars for a book about flies.
Worth the read.
http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
Rick
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Richard Ewald <richard.ewald at gmail.com>wrote:
> I saw a discussion about this on a message board a while back.
> In that particular case it was a book that had zoomed in price to over
> $1,200.00.
> It turned out there were two sellers that had a copy. They each had a
> robot program that repriced their book based on what the other sellers had
> it for.
> As I recall one seller has his robot to up the price by 35% or so, and the
> other seller had his set to undercut the other sellers by a few percent.
> Someone got a copy of the price raises and each one was exactly the same
> percent for each seller.
> The net result was over time a 6 dollar book was listed for an obscene
> amount of $
> Rick
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