Livin' In America

Occasional scribblings from Time's 2006 Person of the Year: An Irish guy living in Atlanta.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

When pricing algorithms go bad:





I'll take a used one, please.

The way I've gone hog wild buying $0.99 texts for my new Kindle 2 (Thanks, Mrs. LivinInAmerica!) has obviously convinced some algorithm or another that I am made of money.

// posted by Patrick @ 8:33 PM

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