There are plenty of bots in the Amazon market place, producing downright bizarre effects:
How Bots Seized Control of My Pricing Strategy
http://carlos.bueno.org/2012/02/bots-seized-control.html
"So with “Turing Test” we have a delightful futuristic absurdity: a computer program, pretending to be human, hawking a book about computers pretending to be human, while other computer programs pretend to have used copies of it. A book that was never actually written, much less printed and read."
Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies
http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
"The book, published in 1992, is out of print. But Amazon listed 17 copies for sale: 15 used from $35.54, and 2 new from $1,730,045.91 (+$3.99 shipping)."
And this is happening now. Imagine the EP mesh marketplaces.
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