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There types of sites are very popular in Finland, there have been like 10 services coming after the first one. And it's very good business, even for a such little market as Finland.

It's pretty easy to create bots for these type of sites. Couple of my friends created bot and got something like 30k from the process. Of course the sites try to limit the usage of bots.



How does the bot AI work? Look for a lull in the bid rates? It seems like it would be hard to know when other people aren't also sitting there waiting to pounce on the auction.


And there is constant controversy about whether these are auctions or raffles.




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