Vgchartz taking advertising too far?

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billy07 said:

super_etecoon said:

billy07 said:

dtewi said:
My god, just suck it up and deal with it.

Ioi does the ads so he can pay the retailers provding him with sales info. Do you mind paying $14.95 a month to visit so the website can look cleaner?

The thing is, the sales numbers on this site are largely innaccurate so no one in their right mind would pay a dime for them. And I seriously doubt ioi pays retailers for sales info. As for the other guy mentioning advertising with the big guys, the diffiulty this site faces when doing that is that it still lacks credibility in the industry, Ioi first needs to work on making the numbers more accurate and once that happens sponsors would follow.

 

Ok...now that we understand your agenda...

I have no agenda. One cannot argue that the software numbers of VGchartz shows a large disparity to those of NPD.

If I had an agenda I wouldn't be writing paragraphs pointing out some flaws in the sites administration such as untargeted ads and amazons low commission rates.

 One also cannot argue that the numbers haven't been getting better, and that maybe if Ioi had someone else working on the site/more money to hire out work he would be able to spend more time getting retailers and making his sample set better.

 As it is, though, I find it hard to think of a time when Ioi's overall software trends didn't mesh with NPD/MC/et all to an acceptable degree.  The exact number may not be the same, but they tend to match pretty closely if you look at overall trends, and rarely (although it does happen) don't mesh up with company statements.  It's pretty good for his small sample set, and I have confidence that if he keeps working at it they will get much better.