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binary solo on 18 November 2014
CosmicSex said:
iTechHeads said:
foodfather said:
Thankfully this is proof that these amazon lists are just based on hits, not actually purchases.

Hits? As in page views? LOL No they're not.

It's called Best-SELLERS for a reason. 


You completely missunderstood what he said.

Those aren't sales because if they are fraud, they will be refunded and never shipped.  A hit is a Buy Now Click, not an actual shipment.  

Ff said "site hits" which is very misleading, because the only way you really get a "site hit" is by clicking add to cart. The way you scam another retailer is by showing your cart with a $99 PS4 in it  and say "Youz gots to price matchez", so yeah the sale never goes through and amazon is never even called on to refund money. Amazon should not record it as a sale, but for the most part when something gets added to cart it goes through to be a sale. So 99.9% of the time adding to cart being counted as a sale is OK.

The blip is so short term and temporary that it won't affect the monthy or even the weekly best seller list. 



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MoHasanie on 18 November 2014

Wow, I'm surprised Walmart staff are stupid enough to match those prices.



    

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iTechHeads on 18 November 2014
foodfather said:
Ok, for the people that dont believe amazon charts are not 100% based on sales, wait a couple of days, I guarantee you will not hear anything on the news about ''mass amounts of gamers buy fake PS4 listings''.

Sully1331 answered his own question. Everybody and their cats knows not to buy from new & suspicious listings on amazon.

There will be no refunds because nobody brought them, its just based on site hits. Guaranteed.

No you're wrong. People DID buy these products, will they get them? That's a different story. Will they get a refund? Who knows.

I have no idea why you think these ranking are based on "hits". They're not. So keep hitting F5 on the Xbox One all you want. It won't change its ranking until you make a purchase.



rioskenny1 on 18 November 2014

i can't believe how greedy humans can be :|



FIT_Gamer on 18 November 2014
MoHasanie said:
Wow, I'm surprised Walmart staff are stupid enough to match those prices.

Me too considering you have to have  Ph.D. to get hired at wal-mart ;)



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RJ_Sizzle on 18 November 2014
MoHasanie said:
Wow, I'm surprised Walmart staff are stupid enough to match those prices.

Do you breathe? You do? Congrats, you just met half the qualifications of working at Walmart.



FIT_Gamer on 18 November 2014

Yep this won't last long. http://www.cnbc.com/id/102197050



Jaywood2010 on 18 November 2014

3 more fake accounts made -_- Amazon is seriously going to have to do something about it. People are something else that is for sure




       

Tachikoma on 18 November 2014

walmart are gonna pull price matching for amazon as a result if this, bet on it.



jlmurph2 on 18 November 2014
JayWood2010 said:
3 more fake accounts made -_- Amazon is seriously going to have to do something about it. People are something else that is for sure


Yeah at this rate there is no waiting a couple hours for things to calm down. Amazon needs to block new sellers.