The reasoning behind why nobody would (rationally) but the bottle is similar to the "Pop Quiz" or "Surprise Hanging" paradox, except the latter paradox is much harder to resolve.
I also recall reading a somewhat cheesy short story in the 1970s wherein the current holder of the bottle imp is sought out by a very doomed man, a man who has committed a heinous crime, and seeks out similar supernatural things to take upon himself. The very doomed man has found an utterly worthless coin of some laughably inefficient micro-nation, and purchases the bottle imp. I believe there's a scene where the very doomed man is washing his hands in blood.
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