American sales - WOW

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jkimball said:

DOATS1 said:
i don't get the logic in stockpiling. i mean, one way or another, the units are going to get sold. stocking them up for a later date won't increase sales, you're just selling something you could have sold months ago in the same fashion. i'm sorry but there is high enough demand for the wii to avoid stock piling.

They are not sotck piling any Wii's and they never have. Besides being quite possibly the dumbest move a company can make, where exactly would they put these things? A warehouse in Japan with a 1million Wii's siitting in it?

It is most likely just a shipping quirk - there's a bunch of Wii's on a trans pacific freighter somewhere. Over a longer time frame than a week it will even out.

You do realize nearly every company in the world stockpiles products for the holiday season, and yes, they do store them in warehouses. Really really big ones. You'd be surprised.

Though this weeks low sales are not due to stockpiling, because every week they probably keep 25-50k or so, and so we'd never see those one way or the other. What's most likely happening is what you said... the freighters take a while to get here, so next week they'll be a boost.