“Why doesn't Bestbuy have CAPTCHA everytime a customer put their orders to cart? It would make bots useless and make scalpers go down the drain.”
Answer This Question
1-1 of 1 Answer
Simple answer, if it sells out, it sells for more. Money is money to online retailers. Sad truth, but they would actually have to invest money into better cyber security. They won't unless it hurts them, or user data gets stolen (also hurting their brand). Even then CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA barely stays ahead of bots. The real solution is to make the Human Challenge/interaction more difficult, and the Bot Challenge more expensive by imbedding hidden Honeypot elements (HTML code) not visible to Human users. That Bots fall victim to. Like fakeout clickable elements (links) that only the bot is scrapping for.. Ooooorr.. just supply more product, so people don't feel incentivized to resell for double. Best case for all of us, just DON'T BUY FROM EBAY resellers, that DON'T have item on hand. The consumers shouldn't have to do the leg work of problem solving an ever extrapolating issue. And so as the market continues to consolidate retailers, speak with your money, say it with your chest, cause money talks.. and for that reason I guess I'll just have to pass. I'm sorry for everyone out there that just wants to enjoy something they love, I hope you get lucky. All we ever do this for is love.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.