There is, unsurprisingly, a Black Mirror episode about this.

“★★☆☆☆ Not a meaningful encounter”

Only when the machine stops can we finally take it apart and fix all its problems. (I dont entirely know what this means I just wanted to say something profound-sounding)

Its a good way to combat scalpers and gives ordinary people at least a chance to buy it without spam refreshing a website only for bots to grab everything anyway.

I swear this was the plot of a Dan Brown novel.

I thought this was about the human species being cooked.

Ah, the olde “fuck me up for life” trifecta.