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i see amazon "sales rank" increase misquoted as a "sales" increase all the time.

Look, Oblivion for the PS3 is up 32,000% today!!! (from #321 to #1)

To be fair, measuring sales rank movements as a percentage is an awfully stupid way to do it. Why don't they just say "Up 73 places"?