A new amazon.com sales site? - Blu-ray Forum

Damon Payne · 02-09-2007, 08:16 PM

As I've mentioned, I'm a software developer and happen to be in the amazon.com developer program. If you check out
http://www.klipschcorner.com/ShopAmazon.aspx you can see a basic amazon search/display that I did on KlipschCorner. I'm wondering if it'd be worth it to do my own Amazon sales rankings site, to see if my numbers match up with theirs, or provide different statistics etc?

dialog_gvf · 02-09-2007, 09:04 PM

It may be.

The HD Gamer DB one is run by a notorious HD DVD fanboi (HomerJay) who could yank down things at any time because it isn't telling people the story he wants told.

And all along people worried that thedvdwars.com was biased.

What would be most useful is perspective on the ranking numbers. We simply don't know what they really mean. And how they are affected (up and down).

Damon Payne · 02-09-2007, 09:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dialog_gvf

It may be.

The HD Gamer DB one is run by a notorious HD DVD fanboi (HomerJay) who could yank down things at any time because it isn't telling people the story he wants told.

And all along people worried that thedvdwars.com was biased.

What would be most useful is perspective on the ranking numbers. We simply don't know what they really mean. And how they are affected (up and down).

I'll have to check, but the most useful # I can think of is NUMBER of units sold, and I don't think the API provides that.

phloyd · 02-09-2007, 10:11 PM

I am sure that we could come up with a better representation of the stats as well.

It is difficult, for example, to compare and get stats on the BDs or HD DVDs alone - the 'game' site always shows the rank of both ranks (ie, #1 is BD, #2 is HD DVD, #3 is BD (though it is BD #2!) and so on.

With a big long list it is useful to see which we are up to. DVDWars is decent but not as varied or quick to update.

Damon Payne · 02-10-2007, 05:01 PM

I doubt the update could be done much faster than 15 minutes. One of the stipulations amazon gives you is that you cannot send them requests for data more than 1 time per second: given the number of requests it must take to aggregate all that data, one would have to be very creative to update much more often.

phloyd · 02-10-2007, 05:08 PM

Update rate is not really all that important IMHO...

The presentation of the data is the key part

Damon Payne · 02-10-2007, 05:37 PM

I may start looking into it tonight, depending on what Netflix brings me in the mail this afternoon.

dialog_gvf · 02-10-2007, 05:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by phloyd

Update rate is not really all that important IMHO...

The presentation of the data is the key part

Agreed. The data as presented by HD Gamer DB is actually very good for what it keeps. He only goes back two weeks though.

Obviously old data can't be obtained, but keeping the data to show long term trends would be cool. Thedvdwars.com has data since inception, but it is very poorly presented.

Also, weekly, monthly, YTD, and overall averages for top 10 to all titles.

Gary

phloyd · 02-14-2007, 01:20 AM

Another potentially useful statistic would be average price for titles released on both formats - ie average price for Warner, Paramount and the various independents that give us a choice of format.

That would demonstrate the real price comparison, since the same companies are represented on both sides of the coin.

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02-09-2007, 08:16 PM	#1
Damon Payne Active Member Member since:Oct 2006 Location:Wisconsin	A new amazon.com sales site? As I've mentioned, I'm a software developer and happen to be in the amazon.com developer program. If you check out http://www.klipschcorner.com/ShopAmazon.aspx you can see a basic amazon search/display that I did on KlipschCorner. I'm wondering if it'd be worth it to do my own Amazon sales rankings site, to see if my numbers match up with theirs, or provide different statistics etc?

02-09-2007, 09:04 PM	#2
dialog_gvf Moderator Member since:Nov 2006 Location:Toronto Blu-ray collection:320	It may be. The HD Gamer DB one is run by a notorious HD DVD fanboi (HomerJay) who could yank down things at any time because it isn't telling people the story he wants told. And all along people worried that thedvdwars.com was biased. What would be most useful is perspective on the ranking numbers. We simply don't know what they really mean. And how they are affected (up and down).

02-09-2007, 10:11 PM	#4
phloyd Blu-ray Guru Member since:Dec 2003 Location:California Trading Score:5	I am sure that we could come up with a better representation of the stats as well. It is difficult, for example, to compare and get stats on the BDs or HD DVDs alone - the 'game' site always shows the rank of both ranks (ie, #1 is BD, #2 is HD DVD, #3 is BD (though it is BD #2!) and so on. With a big long list it is useful to see which we are up to. DVDWars is decent but not as varied or quick to update.

02-10-2007, 05:01 PM	#5
Damon Payne Active Member Member since:Oct 2006 Location:Wisconsin	I doubt the update could be done much faster than 15 minutes. One of the stipulations amazon gives you is that you cannot send them requests for data more than 1 time per second: given the number of requests it must take to aggregate all that data, one would have to be very creative to update much more often.

02-10-2007, 05:08 PM	#6
phloyd Blu-ray Guru Member since:Dec 2003 Location:California Trading Score:5	Update rate is not really all that important IMHO... The presentation of the data is the key part

02-10-2007, 05:37 PM	#7
Damon Payne Active Member Member since:Oct 2006 Location:Wisconsin	I may start looking into it tonight, depending on what Netflix brings me in the mail this afternoon.

02-14-2007, 01:20 AM	#9
phloyd Blu-ray Guru Member since:Dec 2003 Location:California Trading Score:5	Another potentially useful statistic would be average price for titles released on both formats - ie average price for Warner, Paramount and the various independents that give us a choice of format. That would demonstrate the real price comparison, since the same companies are represented on both sides of the coin.

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