Rival pricing bots listed a fly biology textbook for $24 million

On April 19, 2011, someone intervened manually. Profnath’s price dropped to $106.23. Bordeebook’s listing recalculated to $134.97, which is $106.23 multiplied by 1.270589, confirming the algorithm was still running perfectly. The loop hadn’t registered anything unusual. It had simply been interrupted from the outside.