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Originally Posted by datrop
Now, one just needs to guess reseller demand. Considering the price premium for a new in box Kindle, the Wii might be a good proxy. eBay shows about 60,000 Wiis sold (I'm low-balling their number of US-only Wiis of 61,556) for a two week period starting Nov 29; their search engine goes no further. For the month of Nov, there were 981,000 Wiis sold in the US. Of course, seasonality ruins any sort of linear approximation for a 2 week slice of that month of sales. However, it's reasonable to lower-bound things by assuming that those 60,000 Wiis came entirely from last month's sales of 981,000 => at least 6% of units go to the reseller market. |
Well, unless you have access to different search tools then exist on the eBay site or the eBay API you can only find the total number of live or completed listings not the total number of SOLD items. Sold item totals numbers are considered internally confidential and by eBay.
Just thought I would point this out.
Here is a site that has developed some tools to determine the numbers of sold items. It's sorta-kinda pretty cool. Here are the numbers for the Kindle over the past 30-days:
http://data.terapeak.com/?query=kind...te=2007-12-12&