I want to start telling all these companies to leave me the f*** alone. I bought their product and I didn’t complain I didn’t return it. Isn’t that good enough for them??

  • Wrufieotnak@feddit.org
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    10 hours ago

    Interesting idea, never thought about it. But I don’t think the sellers would like to put that information out into the public. Many things, for example also tax related, doesn’t incentives sellers to openly report such information. Except if it is a publicly traded company, than they must report it in their reports.

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      10 hours ago

      Yeah, there’s some value to sales information.

      considers

      Amazon does provide some information.

      goes to Amazon, picks a random product

      https://www.amazon.com/HANPOSH-Military-Stopwatch-Waterproof-Chronograph/dp/B0CGX3SBJF

      3K+ bought in past month

      That’s a bit limited, but camelcamelcamel already scrapes Amazon for price history, and so even if they aren’t already grabbing sales volume history, my guess is that Amazon exposing this is probably already functionally exposing a fair bit of information about sales history.

      checks camelcamelcamel

      https://camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0CGX3SBJF

      Nothing about sales volume, so if they are scraping that as well, they aren’t currently exposing it to users. But I imagine that they could. It may be that competitors or various manufacturers in the industry already look at this to get some idea of what consumer demand is like.

      And just the quantity of reviews will expose some data about sales volume. I mean, if an item has 15k reviews, then they’re going to have sold more than 1000 units.