How "grinch bots" are driving up the prices of hot holiday toys

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Saw this on CBS This Morning, yesterday! This think about those Cabbage Patch Doll, Tickle Me Elmo if the bots were on back then?

DECEMBER 9, 2017, 7:46 AM| Competition for the season's hottest toy may not be another parent, but a piece of computer code. So-called "cyber bots" are scooping up some of the season's most coveted items so that unscrupulous sellers can then unload them at a much higher price. Atlantic senior editor Derek Thompson joins "CBS This Morning: Saturday" to discuss how these software bots work and why it's "extremely difficult" to combat them.
 
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