Stever89 on 12 April 2008
| ioi said: Another aspect to this is that we can track every game, piece of hardware or peripheral bought on amazon via VG Chartz - if the sample size becomes large enough then we are essentially starting to collect our own "vgchartz" weekly sales data (vgchartz becomes a retailer of sorts - or at least a subset of Amazon) which, if representitive, could give us a good estimate for Amazon sales as a chain or even online sales as a sector - which will only increase the accuracy of our data further and give us more information to work with. Of course this is a long way off and we'd need to grow a lot more as a site and be pushing far more users and sales through to really get a representitive sample, but there is potential. Just one of many great advantages to doing things in this way... |
Wow that would be amazing. If anything, it would be interesting to see what people bought in a certain month (especially Nov/Dec), whether or not it was large enough to be a representative sample. Just for kicks basically.
@TheSource, I use Amazon.com for just about everything. Books especially, since they are SOO much cheaper than just about everywhere (plus free shipping and no taxes). Games are usually the same price, but without taxes (and with free shipping of course), the price can be 2 or 3 bucks cheaper, so it can add up. The prices really are competitive. So I'll make sure I start using this for everything I do buy.
