Quote from: inspirone1 on March 19, 2015, 06:36:45 PM

Quote from: bananafana on March 19, 2015, 05:40:29 PM

Quote from: suchmoon on March 19, 2015, 04:13:34 PM

Products and prices seem to be pulled from Amazon.

It's a very odd selection. Can anyone find a pattern to it?

Take the first item on the PC page: https://coinstand.com/#/search/c/PCHardware

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Apple MB323LL/A iMac 20-inch 2.4GHz 2GB Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB ram. $740

That model number is from early 2008:
https://support.apple.com/kb/SP485?locale=en_US

It's a five year old computer. Maybe it's new in the box, but it's hardly the sort of thing you'd choose to emphasize.

The only place I can find Amazon selling that model (new) is
http://www.amazon.com/Apple-MB323LL-20-inch-2-4GHz-Aluminum/dp/B0019N889M
Only one third-party retailer is selling this through Apple, in new condition, and it's this one.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0019N889M/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new

The price ($740) matches this retailer's listing, so this is probably where they got it. But if we click through to the retailer's listing ... it's not even a new computer even though they've listed it under "new." . It's "like new pristine condition." OS upgraded.

The point isn't that it's a used computer, but that the inventory is a bizarre collection of old computers, VHS tapes, what someone on HT aptly described as looking like a yard sale. There's got to be a pattern that would explain how their software selected this particular set of items.

All coinstands listing link back to amazon (look at inspect element) I am sure that this is just a pool off some amazon affiliate automation. All pictures and everything are hosted from amazon. If you look around and find unique items you can correlate it back to amazon only. But the price is discounted on coinstand by a set %. This is just to scammy.

Could you see this a phase one, next phase full amazon mode, is that what you mean?