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

[Pionner]

Ariakon said:

Pionner said:
My understanding is that no other item has sold more in one hour, or multiple hours, that the 1X, still. That's why it's able to stay in its position.

 

The odd thing was that the ps4 gift card actually went up to no.1 after the SNES classic was taken down yesterday and now slipped back into no.2, even though the x hasn't had any stock since Sunday. Who knows what weird algorithm they use. 

Yeah weird. The NES obvious sold more than the 1X so that's why it went straight to number 1. But now the 1X is back up with no stock? Unless the gift card is now selling less than the 1X the reason why it dropped to 2nd? But that still wouldn't make sense if it's based on hourly sales and the gift card sold more than 1X to get number 1 yet fell to 2 below an item not selling anything an hour? Did Amazon randomly get more stock in?

lol i give up.