In Amazon's hourly top-100 electronics sellers last night...

Post #293,457 by CRConrad 9/23/07 5:57:12 AM Reply	In Amazon's hourly top-100 electronics sellers last night... ...the white one was at eighth place, not too far off the 80-GB black iPod Classic that rose from seventh to sixth in the time it took for me to go through all four pages of the list and return to the first one. OK, re-checking... that iPod still at six, silver 4-GB "Nano with Video" now at ten, white 30-GB Zune down to 13. Lots more iPods, no other Zunes (i.e, most definitely no brown ones! :-) , among the top 100. Still, AFAICS, a top-25 place on Amazon's sales stats must mean it isn't as totally dead as you all are implying. [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Ah, the Germans: Masters of Convoluted Simplification. — [link\|http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=1603\|Jehovah]
Post #293,464 by pwhysall 9/23/07 9:44:38 AM Reply	Not even in the top 100 on .co.uk ...in fact, they don't even sell them directly. Just through that weird Amazon Marketplace thing. Peter [link\|http://www.no2id.net/\|Don't Let The Terrorists Win] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home] Use P2P for legitimate purposes! [link\|http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?pwhysall\|A better terminal emulator] [image\|http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h262/pwhysall/Misc/saveus.png\|0\|Darwinia\|\|]
Post #293,465 by Another Scott 9/23/07 10:04:17 AM Reply	I don't think those rankings mean much. The white one is #10 in Electronics at the moment. #1 is a HDMI cable. The first 3 books on the Zune listed as most relevant have sales ranks of: #58,213, #234,572, and #56,506. Comparable iPod books are ranked #25,759, #29,811, and #15,610. While it's true that book sales aren't a direct measure of a product's popularity, there's certainly a relationship to the market size and interest. It's understandable, from a marketing standpoint, why Amazon doesn't list overall sales ranks for products the way they do for books, but it invites manipulation. Cheers, Scott.

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