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

[thismeintiel]

Nuvendil said:

thismeintiel said:

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.

Well, no, the reason it jumped - as was pointed out in the posts above yours - is because the Neon bundle became available and was sold out in like 10 minutes. 

That's a different SKU.  I'm talking about the normal Switch SKU.  It stayed in the Top 5 for the longest time, even though it was sold out.  Then, it very slowly started trending down.  But, on the way down, there were times it would jump up a few spots, then go back down.  Like I said, that's the first time I have noticed a sold out item behave that way.  Usually it's only a few hours before it starts to quickly start dropping down the charts, until it is completely gone within a day or so.

I think Amazon may have either changed their algorithm to count those wanting to be emailed when the product is available as "sales" or it's always been the algorithm and other products just dropped much quicker because not as many people signed up to be emailed, since the product was available elsewhere.