Re: Amazon Sales Rank
Dave Cross [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>Data Munging with Perl *>by David Cross *> *>Amazon.com Sales Rank: 760 *> *>Blimey, how did that happen? Yesterday it was 87,867! http://cpan.valueclick.com/authors/id/TOMC/scripts/ contains 'amarank' which is a script you can use to feed the obsession :) It's old but it should still work. e.
Re: Amazon Sales Rank
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 02:23:20PM +, James Powell wrote: > WHSmith's www.bookshop.co.uk is good for this as they are incapable > of storing orders so have to send each book when they get it (so you > can end up with deliveries on subsequent days). I weas reading a Boxman obituary earlier (http://europe.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,14363,00.html?mail) and one of the things that it said was the Boxman's (hugely expensive IBM) system wasn't capable of *billing* you until everything had shipped, although they would quite happily ship the individual items one by one ;) Quite a scary story actually... Tony -- - Tony Bowden | Belfast, NI | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.tmtm.com | www.blackstar.co.uk all history is too small for even me; for me and you,exceedingly too small -
Re: Amazon Sales Rank
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:56:24PM +, Paul Mison wrote: > > Didn't the case of 'A Fist In the Bush' prove that Amazon's "Sales" > > rankings are actually down to how many people look at things? > > Wasn't that more to do with the "people who like like also like *this*" > rankings that the actual sales ranks, which they claim are actually > based on sales, and not even on who's paid them most? > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201615711/ref=sim_books/107-8558793- 5982946 gives Lincoln Steins rank as 11. What does this mean then, it's hardly going to be the 11th most popular book on Amazon, maybe it's the 11th most popular Perl book. How would you feel being number 760 in that list Dave :-) /Robert
Re: Amazon Sales Rank
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:42:24PM +, Roger Burton West wrote: > On or about Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:39:08PM +, Michael Stevens typed: > > >Now if they'd just actually send me the copy I ordered... > >(I think they said 3-5 weeks) > > Ditto. It's one of the 9 things remaining before they ship my latest > order. > > Roger WHSmith's www.bookshop.co.uk is good for this as they are incapable of storing orders so have to send each book when they get it (so you can end up with deliveries on subsequent days). They're also pretty competitive with Amazon. jp
Re: Amazon Sales Rank
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:56:24PM +, Paul Mison wrote: > Didn't the case of 'A Fist In the Bush' prove that Amazon's "Sales" > rankings are actually down to how many people look at things? Wasn't that more to do with the "people who like like also like *this*" rankings that the actual sales ranks, which they claim are actually based on sales, and not even on who's paid them most? Tony -- - Tony Bowden | Belfast, NI | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.tmtm.com | www.blackstar.co.uk don't you know how hard it is to hit the ground and mean it -
Re: Amazon Sales Rank
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 08:52:02AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: > > Now if they'd just actually send me the copy I ordered... > > (I think they said 3-5 weeks) > Did you order it from amazon.co.uk? amazon.com have it stock and are > sending it out now. It'll be another couple of weeks before it hits > the amazon.co.uk warehouse. Yeah - amazon.co.uk. It's part of a larger order and I'm probably going to just wait until it all ships... Michael
Re: Amazon Sales Rank
* at 01/02 08:35 -0500 Dave Cross said:
> Data Munging with Perl
> by David Cross
>
> Amazon.com Sales Rank: 760
>
> Blimey, how did that happen? Yesterday it was 87,867!
a day in the life of a famous perl author:
goto: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1930110006/
while (1){
look at sales rank
sleep 300
hit refresh
}
struan
RE: Amazon Sales Rank
At Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:40:08 - , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I thought you were boycotting/not paying any attention to amazon ? Boycotting, yes. No paying any attention to, no - that would be stupid. Much as I hate it, I must accept that the majority of my sales will come thru Amazon. That's just The Way Of The World. Dave...
Re: Amazon Sales Rank
At Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:39:08 +, Michael Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 08:35:10AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: > > Data Munging with Perl > > by David Cross > > Amazon.com Sales Rank: 760 > > Blimey, how did that happen? Yesterday it was 87,867! > > Now if they'd just actually send me the copy I ordered... > > (I think they said 3-5 weeks) Did you order it from amazon.co.uk? amazon.com have it stock and are sending it out now. It'll be another couple of weeks before it hits the amazon.co.uk warehouse. Dave...
Re: Amazon Sales Rank
At Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:44:25 +, Struan Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * at 01/02 08:35 -0500 Dave Cross said:
> > Data Munging with Perl
> > by David Cross
> >
> > Amazon.com Sales Rank: 760
> >
> > Blimey, how did that happen? Yesterday it was 87,867!
>
> a day in the life of a famous perl author:
>
> goto: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1930110006/
>
> while (1){
> look at sales rank
>
> sleep 300
>
> hit refresh
> }
This is so true.
Actually, the only difference between Perl authors and any other
authors is that we write scripts to do this an send us sms messages
whenever the sales rank changes[1]
Dave...
[1] Or, at least, we think very seriously about it :)
Re: Amazon Sales Rank
On 01/02/2001 at 13:44 +, Struan Donald wrote:
>* at 01/02 08:35 -0500 Dave Cross said:
>> Data Munging with Perl
>> by David Cross
>>
>> Amazon.com Sales Rank: 760
>>
>> Blimey, how did that happen? Yesterday it was 87,867!
>
>a day in the life of a famous perl author:
>
>goto: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1930110006/
>
>while (1){
> look at sales rank
Didn't the case of 'A Fist In the Bush' prove that Amazon's "Sales"
rankings are actually down to how many people look at things?
hoping *this* email has the right From: headers;
--
:: paul
:: they don't come at you with guns
:: they come at you with smiles
RE: Amazon Sales Rank
Title: RE: Amazon Sales Rank I've noticed a few (quiet) complaints about it on the list, so I thought I'd apologise, even though it's not my fault and (barring getting an external email address, which is going to happen soon) theres nothing I can do about it. -Original Message- From: Michael Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 February 2001 13:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Amazon Sales Rank On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:40:08PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I thought you were boycotting/not paying any attention to amazon ? > PS I apologise for the html mails, the client here is set up to send out > plain text, and my internal mails come out as plain text, but some stupid > idiot has our smtp server / exchange server set up to convert ALL outgoing > mails to html :( This one came with both text and html components, so it wouldn't have been noticeable unless you mentioned it :) Michael
RE: Amazon Sales Rank
Title: RE: Amazon Sales Rank I thought you were boycotting/not paying any attention to amazon ? PS I apologise for the html mails, the client here is set up to send out plain text, and my internal mails come out as plain text, but some stupid idiot has our smtp server / exchange server set up to convert ALL outgoing mails to html :( -Original Message- From: Dave Cross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 February 2001 13:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Amazon Sales Rank Data Munging with Perl by David Cross Amazon.com Sales Rank: 760 Blimey, how did that happen? Yesterday it was 87,867! Dave...
Re: Amazon Sales Rank
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:40:08PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I thought you were boycotting/not paying any attention to amazon ? > PS I apologise for the html mails, the client here is set up to send out > plain text, and my internal mails come out as plain text, but some stupid > idiot has our smtp server / exchange server set up to convert ALL outgoing > mails to html :( This one came with both text and html components, so it wouldn't have been noticeable unless you mentioned it :) Michael
Re: Amazon Sales Rank
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 08:35:10AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote: > Data Munging with Perl > by David Cross > Amazon.com Sales Rank: 760 > Blimey, how did that happen? Yesterday it was 87,867! Now if they'd just actually send me the copy I ordered... (I think they said 3-5 weeks) Michael
Re: Amazon Sales Rank
On or about Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:39:08PM +, Michael Stevens typed: >Now if they'd just actually send me the copy I ordered... >(I think they said 3-5 weeks) Ditto. It's one of the 9 things remaining before they ship my latest order. Roger
