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.