I found this story really amusing, and not simply because I’ve witnessed a much smaller scale version of this myself with my own books being available “like new” and “used” via these resellers at prices below my own list price, too…
How Bots Seized Control of My Pricing Strategy
http://carlos.bueno.org/2012/02/bots-seized-control.html
In a world where robots will battle each other electronically for the best prices, are consumers even needed as part of that equation anymore at all???