People have had bots to buy chips on
eBay, Craigslist etc for ages - why do you think it's so damn hard to score on sites like
eBay? I know nothing about such things but if your job is in analytics I imagine it would be trivial to build a bot to do pretty much anything.
This is part of the reason why I don't have a set of Paulsons. I'm very happy to buy chips from Jim but I'm not happy to buy chips (at a markup) from someone who bought chips from Jim who was either faster than me or built a bot to beat me to it.
That's also why I like the golden ticket that Jim has done - really nice way to give some people the chance to get chips that they can't normally purely because the demand exceeds the supply so you need fast fingers.