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Plain old money laundring or really human trafficking. What do you think?

Need convincing? Here's another example:

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On a more lighter note, I discovered HELIUM (no, not from John Carter), this one:

 
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Plain old money laundring or really human trafficking. What do you think?
I don't know about this case, but generally such ridiculously high prices are due to a bidding war between two bots.

Some people have bots that will search marketplaces for relatively rare items and will offer the same item on another marketplace (or even the same) at a slightly higher price. If someone buys it, the bot will buy it from the original seller and have it sent to the address of the buyer, pocketing the difference.

Sometimes, the original listing disappears, leaving only the bot, at which point another bot will find the listing and sell it with a markup. Then the first bot will realize that the original listing is gone but will find the listing of the new bot and will raise his price accordingly. Then the second bot will raise its price... and you get a loop that ends with these ridiculously high price.

But it gets even weirder:
Some people will also have bots that will generate e-books with some key words. The book is rubbish and probably won't sell, but it costs next to nothing to produce so if you get even a handful buyers you're making money.
There are also bots that look for e-books that aren't offered in print and offer printed version, making a few dollars on top of the e-book+printing costs.
These books will often be unique. Which means that the bots I mentioned before that look for rare items will find them and list them.

So you've got bots that sell absurdly high-priced books that a bot wrote and another bot offered to print.
 
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