Amazon.com Reporting This Holiday Season Their "Best Ever"

In a refreshing break from all the doom and gloom, Amazon.com is calling this holiday season their best ever. Reporting a 44 percent rise in the number of items sold, they are refusing to provide actual dollar amounts, so it is still a very subjective measurement. "Amazon customers ordered more than 6.3 million items on Dec. 15, compared with roughly 5.4 million on its peak day last year, the company said. It shipped more than 5.6 million products on its best day, a 44 percent rise over 2007, when it shipped about 3.9 million on its busiest day. The company did not provide dollar figures and wouldn't say whether the average value of orders had changed, and the jumps it reported Friday are in line with increases Amazon has seen since it started releasing the figures in 2002."

Comments

Re:I call BS

[Itninja]

...lipstick on a pig.

Just another attack by the liberal elite. Why do you hate America?

But NPR told me....

[gandhi_2]

The media has been rooting for a recession since Clinton left office.

NPR especially, going so far as to tell me how this is basically the great depression. Yet, everywhere I go I see people driving SUV's to the various outlets to buy crap they don't need.

Amazon represents the second-best reason for a free market economy: efficiency. They can bring you goods and services cheaper than their competitors, you win, they win, competitor looses.

Oh...and I drink YOUR milkshake.

Re:Begs the question - not so much

[maxume]

"usage does" is still way better style than "it's use".

Re:Begs the question - not so much

[MightyYar]

Re-read your own post. Something about glass houses comes to mind :)

of course

[Trepidity]

and when I mail items overseas or receive them from overseas, I never mark them as "gift" if they were actually purchases

Re:Begs the question - not so much

[MightyYar]

Bloody colonials.

Be nice to us, or we'll start our own language standard. We'll start switching "s" around with "z" and pretty soon you'll have to start calling our version "American English".

By the way, the same thing seems to be happening on your side of the pond.

Re:"Our smallest loss ever!"

[MightyYar]

Listen Chucky, I made that all up. I'll type real slow so you can understand: I... called... you.. Chucky... because... you... are... an... idiot.