How does something sell out online the second it goes up for sale?

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My boyfriend keeps trying to buy a PS5 digital off walmart online and he was ready on the page with credit card info all set and as soon as the restock time hit, it was instantly out of stock (for the second time). How is this even possible? There’s no way that many people can add to cart, enter payment, and checkout in a single second.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Bots

But also any good site will reserve your item for a certain amount of time when it gets placed in your shopping cart to prevent you from checking out and then being told there’s no stock. So even without bots the stock would go extremely fast.

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