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:"Our smallest loss ever!"

[abigor]

Pointless to respond to an AC, but Amazon has been continuously profitable since 2003.

Re:Begs the question - not so much

[Itninja]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begs_the_question Just sayin'

Re:Amazon's real skill: hooking the media...

[Chyeld]

Not only did everything I ordered from Amazon get there on time. But when the things my folks ordered for me got returned as undeliverable because the moron of a substitute postman covering their route didn't feel like getting out of his toy car during a rain storm and didn't think to just hold them at the post office; Amazon not only reshipped a new order with a 24 hour turn around and bumped it up to 1st day delivery via UPS, all for free. (Man that's a run on sentence from hell.)

Re:"Our smallest loss ever!"

[MightyYar]

Let me help you there, chucky:
2007: 476 million
2006: 190 million
2005: 359 million
2004: 588 million
2003: 35 million
2002: -149 million

Really, is this shocking information? That Amazon is profitable?

Re:it's in the sales tax

[TheRaven64]

You do, I trust, declare the sales tax and pay it yourself, as you are legally required to do? If not, you've just admitted tax evasion on a public forum...