{"id":9170,"date":"2018-07-16T18:45:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T01:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9170"},"modified":"2018-07-30T18:48:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T01:48:20","slug":"amascammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/07\/16\/amascammers\/","title":{"rendered":"Amascammers"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Amazon\u2019s Curious Case of the $2,630.52 Used Paperback<\/span><\/h1>\n

By David Streitfeld<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Many booksellers on Amazon strive to sell their wares as cheaply as possible. That, after all, is usually how you make a sale in a competitive marketplace.<\/p>\n

Other merchants favor a counterintuitive approach: Mark the price up to the moon.<\/p>\n

\u201cZowie,\u201d the romance author Deborah Macgillivray wrote on Twitter last month after she discovered copies of her 2009 novel, \u201cOne Snowy Knight,\u201d being offered for four figures. One was going for \u201c$2,630.52 & FREE Shipping,\u201d she noted. Since other copies of the paperback were being sold elsewhere on Amazon for as little as 99 cents, she was perplexed.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow many really sell at that price? Are they just hoping to snooker some poor soul?\u201d Ms. Macgillivray wrote in an email. She noted that her blog had gotten an explosion in traffic from Russia. \u201cMaybe Russian hackers do this in their spare time, making money on the side,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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