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

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SWORDF1SH said:

nemo37 said:

The problem with what you are asking, and btw this is not only limited to your post as I have seen others try to do the same, is that Amazon rankings by nature are ordinal data. Ordinal data gives us the order of how each SKU is doing but it does not give us distances.Thus, we cannot predict exact sales numbers based on it. Beyond that we also do not know how much the sales would be if we combine the various SKUs together, again because we lack exact unit numbers.

Well you see everything ranked in the top 100. Make an educated guess. You have 100 ranked items to gauge your estimates off. Plus if you see 2 or 3 bundles for 'Y' before a bundle for console 'X', then that should indicate that console 'Y' is selling at least 2 or 3 times more than that 1 bundle for console 'X'.

You don't really have to think to hard about it to get an idea. 

Doesnt work that way, look at my earlier post.