Amazon U.S. January bestsellers and general Amazon-based discussion

[thismeintiel]

GribbleGrunger said:

thismeintiel said:

I think what some hypothesized is correct.  Amazon is counting those who sign up for emails as "buys."  There is no other reason that the Switch stayed so high in the Top 100 when it had been sold out for days.  And it even went up and down for awhile, too.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe any other product has ever done that. 

Don't get me wrong, though, if that's true it's still good news for the Switch and Nintendo, but it just throws off the charts.

Yes, I agreed with that until I read the description. Amazon didn't even know if they were going to get any more stock so it's unlikely they'd accept more sign ups until they're certain they were getting more.

I mean to receive emails when pre-orders are available, again.  At least, that's the only thing I can come up with that makes any sense.  Even if it was just Amazon promoting it, it doesn't make sense for them to have it all over the charts like that.  There had to be some factor making it move around like that.  And email sign ups are the only thing I can think of.