Amazon stealing buy box for books that they don't have and never will.

[papy]

@HobbesIsMyTiger

but I haven been complaining about this for 2 years.

Came here to mention your struggle.

Amazon holds the BB on out of stock items. FOR YEARS.

Amazon routinely keeps the BB when they run out of stock of an item. Usually they do this on listings they intend to restock. Of course they also keep the price ridiculously low, even when they are out of stock, so everyone else trying to sell at a normal price gets high-botted. However, there are some items where Amazon has been out of stock for over 3 years and they have kept the BB. Of course, this means they are still keeping the BB at a price that was too low 3 years ago, and now is just p…