Both "avarice" and "greed" refer to an excessive love, or obsession, with material wealth. Therefore, the answer would most likely discuss money, or people who greatly enjoy it. The passage states that two men were counting money, and that the narrator listened to the fall of the coins. This is a way of implying that the bazaar operates due to greed and avarice.
Yes I do think so, I think they changed their content due to the fact that the internet was becoming more popular and they wanted to try to become popular like the internet.
