Last year, two brothers bought a stockpile of Hatchimals—the it-toy of 2016—to force families to pay large markups to get the toy. It was like an analog version of the Grinch-bot scandal.

— -- Some of this holiday season’s hottest toys are out of stock but being resold online for thousands of dollars above list price because of so-called Grinch bots. The same cyberscalping ...

WASHINGTON (CBS)-- There's a warning for holiday shoppers as online bots are snatching up this season's hottest toys. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says these so-called "Grinch bots" are ...

Now it’s the robot that stole Christmas. Retailers must do more to stop Grinch-like scammers armed with cyber bots from snapping up the hottest holiday toys and reselling them at crazy high ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – The Grinch is stealing Christmas – and he’s gone high tech. Cyber scalpers are making it harder than ever to get your hands on the season’s hot toys. Dubbed “grinch ...

Fingerlings, those colorful chirping monkeys (and sloths and unicorns) that wrap around your finger, have become one of the most desired toys on holiday shopping lists. Unfortunately, the $15 ...

Connecticut U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and several fellow Democrats want to crack down on technology being used to buy popular holiday toys in order to resell them at inflated prices.

Take, for example, one of this year’s hottest toys, Fingerlings, a series of automated finger puppets. Fingerlings have a suggested retail price of $14.99, but scalpers on eBay and elsewhere ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and several fellow Democrats want to crack down on technology being used to buy popular holiday toys in order to resell them at ...