Amazon reportedly used a secret algorithm to jack up prices — A new report details Amazon’s Project Nessie pricing algorithm::Amazon deployed a secret algorithm to gauge how high it could raise prices before its competitors stopped increasing their prices as well.

  • Nollij
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    1 year ago

    YSK this data is not entirely accurate. It relies entirely on Amazon’s API, which has been problematic in the past.

    Still a useful tool, nonetheless.

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      1 year ago

      That API you are describing is not active anymore. Hasn’t been in a long time.

      Keepa has to scrape Amazon data themselves.