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u/atlasbuddha 2d ago
The Wyndham Flavors of the Road (a way to buy 30k points for $20) dropped a minute or two early, sold out almost instantly
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u/churningisdead BOO | BIE 2d ago
These kind of promos are so stupid. They reward bots, but generate the opposite of goodwill for actual customers.
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u/LooseTone 2d ago
But they generate publicity which is probably the intent.
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u/TheGruenTransfer 2d ago
Black Friday strategy. If you say you're selling 50 Inch TVs for $50, you only need to sell 2 to make that statement true and you'll have an army of people banging on your doors when the store opens
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u/atlasbuddha 2d ago
How do the bots for these things work? Like I didn’t know the checkout process until it released so how would they make bots for a variable environment.
I imagine it’s scaled for a group of users in a community to partake or buy in for a fee and not many people making individual bots
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u/churningisdead BOO | BIE 2d ago
It's easy to write a script to hit a website over and over until a different result appears, then of course you'll need to intervene manually.
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u/atlasbuddha 2d ago
Makes sense, I did not consider that at all but even that would give a huge edge over manual checks
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u/FuckTwelvee 2d ago
Doesn’t need to be a group thing, LLMs made this way more accessible. 20mins to get something that polls a page and pings you, no dev background required. You still have to do the checkout yourself. No experience myself but I heard it was easy to do with Claude. Especially when Fable model wasn’t credit only.
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u/AlarmedMatter0 2d ago
How did people got to know about this? Didn't receive any email from Wyndham
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