Retailer Bot Protection for the Protection of the Common Consumer
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I buy Air Jordans, they are something I have to save up for months to get a pair.
Nike and all online retailers release at 8AM on Saturdays. The problem is, at 8:00:02 AM programs have been developed that instantly add ALL of the shoes available to the bot users shopping carts and do not give the average enthusiastic and very loyal buyer a chance.
The bot users buy these shoes to sell them at an 80%-150% markup. And although all the shoes at Footlocker, Footaction, Nike, Jimmy Jazz, Eastbay, and Champs are happy to sell all their shoes in seconds, it is not in line with the mission statements or ethics of the companies involved. And this really boils down to ethics.
Nike sometimes has light bot protection, but the others not at all. And captchas are not difficult to implement. By not implementing them you are saying it is OK to betray our loyal customers.
We are going to boycott EASTBAY, FOOTACTION, FOOTLOCKER, CHAMPS, JIMMY JAZZ until this simple fix is implemented and you show us you are loyal to the die hard fans and not the bot users who double the price for us.
This boycott does not only apply to shoes that are limited to one per customer, this applies to all shoes, clothing, everything you sell. You can go with the simple fix or you can see if you've pissed of your loyal customers by making them pay double on the secondary market.
And who doesn't use Captchas to throw off bots.
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