<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>mikiem</author><text>I can confirm that this is a thing... a bigger thing than one might think. I run an IaaS cloud provider and I know off the top of my head several customers of ours who each maintain a fleet of VMs to do this for a variety of products. Eg: Limited edition shoes, show tickets, etc. Some of our customers who do this keep the VMs running and some fire them up only when needed. Some use custom software and scripts and some use purchased software designed specifically for the sites and products they want to beat others to.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Clearly thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of gamers were sitting on the product page hammering the F5 key and some random selection thereof got their wish.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I highly doubt that. My guess is that third party resellers used bots to purchase them all.&lt;p&gt;Why wouldn&amp;#x27;t tc come to the same conclusion?&lt;p&gt;Edit. yep here&amp;#x27;s one on eBay for $500+:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;m.ebay.com&amp;#x2F;itm&amp;#x2F;New-Nintendo-NES-Classic-Edition-Console-30-classic-Games-included-In-Hand-&amp;#x2F;282251775042?hash=item41b7844c42%3Ag%3AdQgAAOSwB09YJQNg&amp;amp;_trkparms=pageci%253A0eaa36dd-a868-11e6-b61e-74dbd18070b6%257Cparentrq%253A55c26f941580a5eb36147d47fffca634%257Ciid%253A1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;m.ebay.com&amp;#x2F;itm&amp;#x2F;New-Nintendo-NES-Classic-Edition-Conso...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon sells out of the NES Classic Edition in less than a minute</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/11/nintendowned-amazon-sells-out-of-nes-classic-editions-in-null-seconds/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>a_bonobo</author><text>In Australia, the NES Classic Edition came out on Thursday - the physical copies at Target etc. too were sold out in minutes, too. Some of the Facebook comments said that their local shop only got a few boxes which were gone mmediately: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.facebook.com&amp;#x2F;NintendoAUNZ&amp;#x2F;videos&amp;#x2F;714922218664914&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.facebook.com&amp;#x2F;NintendoAUNZ&amp;#x2F;videos&amp;#x2F;714922218664914...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;As usual, Nintendo doesn&amp;#x27;t get their customers and is completely unprepared.</text><parent_chain><item><author>AndrewKemendo</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Clearly thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of gamers were sitting on the product page hammering the F5 key and some random selection thereof got their wish.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I highly doubt that. My guess is that third party resellers used bots to purchase them all.&lt;p&gt;Why wouldn&amp;#x27;t tc come to the same conclusion?&lt;p&gt;Edit. yep here&amp;#x27;s one on eBay for $500+:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;m.ebay.com&amp;#x2F;itm&amp;#x2F;New-Nintendo-NES-Classic-Edition-Console-30-classic-Games-included-In-Hand-&amp;#x2F;282251775042?hash=item41b7844c42%3Ag%3AdQgAAOSwB09YJQNg&amp;amp;_trkparms=pageci%253A0eaa36dd-a868-11e6-b61e-74dbd18070b6%257Cparentrq%253A55c26f941580a5eb36147d47fffca634%257Ciid%253A1&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;m.ebay.com&amp;#x2F;itm&amp;#x2F;New-Nintendo-NES-Classic-Edition-Conso...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Amazon sells out of the NES Classic Edition in less than a minute</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/11/nintendowned-amazon-sells-out-of-nes-classic-editions-in-null-seconds/</url></story>