| poklane said: I really wonder how Amazon's hourly rankings work. The XB1X has been unavailable for about 22 hours now due to selling out, yet it's still #1 in the hourly rankings. How does that work? If my memory serves me right this also happened with other consoles and hardware devices, it confuses the fuck out of me. |
Say the #1 selling product was selling at a rate of 50 units per hour. Then, all of a sudden, Amazon receives 2000 preorders for an upcoming product before it sold out in less than an hour. That springs the upcoming product to #1. Even though Amazon no longer accepts preorders, the sales rate will still be higher than 50 units per hour until 40 hours have past. And then, we also have take into the account the sales rate fluctuations from other products.
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