Hacker News new | comments | show | ask | jobs | submit login Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies ( michaeleisen.org ) 711 points by rflrob 1619 days ago | 140 comments siegler 1619 days ago A similar thing happened to me as a seller. I saw that one of my old textbooks was selling for a nice price, so I listed it along with two other used copies. I priced it $1 cheaper than the lowest price offered, but within an hour both sellers had changed their prices to $.01 and $.02 cheaper than mine. I reduced it two times more by $1, and each time they beat my price by a cent or two. So what I did was reduce my price by a few dollars every hour for one day until everybody was priced under $5. Then I bought their books and changed my price back. ----- SandB0x 1619 days ago The opposite scenario (sort of), from Michael Lewis' Liar's Poker: One day earlier i...