Comment by blackeyeblitzar

Rather than organically pricing their products, these bigger companies are setting prices to always match or undercut pricing elsewhere. This squeezes the advantage smaller players may have on pricing, and big players can afford to do so even at a loss. Another issue is that the bigger players may be essentially signaling their pricing to each other through their scraping, which can be a form of collusion and price fixing - this is what’s under scrutiny in the rental market where software is performing actions that would be anti-competitive for a human to do.