Grok Bot to watch a scarce Amazon toy

Ben Pouladian described a Grok Bot that had spent weeks watching for an Amazon-exclusive NeeDoh priced at $19.99. Stock appeared in quantities of only one or two, so finding an available product page was not the same as completing an order.

His account includes three concrete attempts. At 11:32, the agent reached Buy Now but reported that the toy sold out before Place Order. At 13:02, the owner's Mac was offline, so the agent used its own computer and tried twice; checkout again became unavailable. At 15:05, the listing showed a quantity of zero and could not be ordered.

The agent reported no charge in those attempts and said it would continue watching. The workflow used the owner's Mac when available, with another computer as a fallback. The source does not establish that either environment reliably wins the stock race, and it does not report an eventual successful purchase.

This is a useful failure account for scarce-item shopping. A monitor needs to distinguish a product appearing in stock, entering checkout, placing an order and receiving confirmation. Pouladian's reports preserve those distinctions rather than calling every available listing a purchase. No original instruction for the stock-monitoring task is published, so the prompt below is a suggested version of the reported workflow.

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Suggested prompt (written by Agents In Use, not the author's)

Source: benpouladian.com · Ben Pouladian