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Forums - Sales - PS3 sales spiked 3750% upon restock at amazon

It ranked number 6 (40gb model)while 80 is still out of stock.

the 3750% could be compared to the last week sine they were almost sold out,any ways here is the link:

http://news.punchjump.com/article.php?id=5643

 

 

that 's nice to hear.maybe blu ray victory???



 

 

 

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Oh, the good old Amazon "increase" percentages. It doesn't mean sales increased by 3750%, it's just the ranking number which was lowered by that amount.

The original statement doesn't even make any sense - if something was out of stock (therefore selling zero units), increasing 3750% would mean it would still be selling zero units afterwards.



My Mario Kart Wii friend code: 2707-1866-0957

^ tech. yes. But you make 0 -1 so basically they sold an extra 3,750 units.



http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=19127#end

Heres some more conversation about this,.



PooperScooper said:
^ tech. yes. But you make 0 -1 so basically they sold an extra 3,750 units.

That's not how it works. Amazon calculates it like this:

Imagine an item was at ranking #3000, and then improves to #150. They'll show a percentage increase of 1900%, since:

(3000-150)/150 = 1900%

You can see some examples here, and confirm by yourself that it works the way I said:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/movers-and-shakers/books

 



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Babyseals ...
No more, please ...



Satan said:

"You are for ever angry, all you care about is intelligence, but I repeat again that I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant's wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God's shrine."

Might I add that it's a pretty stupid way of calculating the percentages...

 



My Mario Kart Wii friend code: 2707-1866-0957

OH MY GOSH! AMAZON CAN'T FIND PS3'S TO SELL, IT MUST BE SUPPLY CONSTRAINED! IF IT WASN'T IT'D OUTSELL THE WII, OH MY GOSH!

Just kidding, that's how a Wii or 360 fanboy would respond.



Dang, where's Dolla Dolla when we need him?!



Dammit madskillz, now I want pasta with red sauce...

@OT; it don't take a whole lot to improve upon 1-2 or maybe 3-4 units, so however staggering percentages may look, the real numbers may be underwhelming once they surface.