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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
Amazon's bestselling product are true, as is the claim that they sold more K3s in 73 days than they did in 2009.
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Given that the K3 only came out this year, that's not too hard.
But I get what you were shooting at.
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So it sounds like they are doing very well. Anecdotally, too, as I know three people who got Kindles for Xmas.
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heh. You obviously haven't worked in marketing I take it? Because all you have to do is be 1 number over a previous figure, and with a little twisted wording, you can make it sound like you just sold the entire farm for a kings ransome! Take this for example. If they sold 1000 Kindles last year, and they sold 1001 in a 73 day period this year, that makes it legal to say they sold more. But if you were to actually get your hands on real Kindle sales numbers, I bet you would find that they didn't actually sell all that many overall. Also, consider another little bit of marketing spin:
"The best selling Amazon
product ever!"
That one little phrase right there can be twisted so many directions that it's not even funny. First off, the way it's written you automatically assume that they're referring to everything sold on Amazon. But in reality they're very likely saying that of all the product actually produced by Amazon, it's the best selling. Now while the latter is true, a lot of insinuation is made to make you think that it's the best selling product among all the items on Amazon, even though they never said that, and likely won't admit it. So yeah, marketing is all about making the molehill you're selling look like a mountain.
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Originally Posted by carld
I don't think the actual numbers matter at all, and all the complaints are just people taking jabs at Amazon because they don't like the company for one reason or another.
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That's true of everyone who complains about anything. They only complain if they have a beef against someone, and as leebase so elegantly pointed out. And if you're curious, my beef with Amazon is that they run their company in a very dishonest manner. It's not protectionist or paranoid. It's just outright greedy and dishonest. Having dealt with them behind the scenes, I've seen much of the backstabbing and other nonsense that happens with them. But if you haven't experienced that yet, give it time and you'll eventually run into the dark side of Amazon.
Personally, if it wasn't for the huge number of people who go through them, I'd prefer to have absolutely nothing to do with them. I despise dishonest companies. But sadly, I'm stuck dealing with a lot of them simply because people won't do their homework and vote with their dollars. But that's a whole other story.