“In a press release issued on Tuesday, Amazon boasted that Cyber Monday 2012 was the ‘biggest day ever for Kindle sales worldwide.’ Sales were boosted in particular by a $129 price for the Kindle Fire,” AppleInsider reports.
“Amazon has repeatedly bragged about sales of the Kindle lineup, and even claimed in August that the Kindle Fire accounted for 22 percent of the U.S. tablet market,” AppleInsider reports. “But Amazon has failed to publicly state how many units it has sold of any device in its Kindle lineup, which includes e-ink readers and touchscreen tablets with color LCD displays.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Amazon on Kindle. Lots of talk, no substance. As usual.
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Go on amazon, give us the raw numbers, no more cliches
It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that revealed million of units sold swing.
1. show me the money (stats that is, or at least your freakin’ laser beam, huah, huahauhuahaha)
2. “best sales day ever” means jack. if Amazon sold 1 kindle on saturday, 2 on monday, 3-10 today?! if you sold 22% of Tabs’ worth, why not reveal those wonderful #s, are you lying?!
3. Kindle. exactly. for kinder. nada serious. flimsy plastics. flimsy inside.
Apple should do the same. If analists are so wrong now imagine without the sales numbers. It would be fun.
Apple does show its numbers. They just wait until the quarterly reports. But there are real numbers. And Real Big Numbers.
: The Real Deal.
In other words, they sold three more Kindles then the day previously.
=:~)
Headline should read “Amazon too embarrass to release numbers on Kindle”
Any other unsupported claims should not be reported.
Talk is cheap, shows us the numbers. Maybe the more important number is the profit margin. any company can sell a product at cost or a lost in large numbers. Till we see some real sales figure it is all Bull Shit.
Alot of lumps of coal on Christmas morning. Some kids are gonna be disappointed. Think twice parents!
They are making zip money, sell the Kindle at a loss, refuse to disclose how many Kindles they have sold or how much money they have generated in sales from user purchases on average from the Kindle’s sold. And yet their stock is selling at a crazy high. What is wrong with this picture? Prediction: Something is going to start unwinding with Amazon and when it does it will not be pretty.
Aren’t they a publicly traded company? Shouldn’t they be required to divulge to their investors? Are there any Amazon investors out there? Hello?
yeah, but we are all drunk.
Since they sell Kindles for less than they cost to make, shouldn’t headline read “Amazon reports biggest financial loss ever” or “Amazon leading craproid peddlers in race to the bottom”
I know 5 people who bought kindles over the shopping weekend.
That does not mean Amazon made a profit however! heh
Record sales… To be followed by record returns.
Kindle – The new lump of coal
I don’t know about that. I know three people who currently have Kindle Fires and none of them wanted to do a return.
My mom uses hers all the time. I am a bit stumped on the reason she bought it considering when she called me for advice I never mentioned a kindle fire or any other tablet. i told her to get an ipad. I’ll have to investigate how that went down when she visits over xmas.
I doubt amazon is making money on the device but for the money its not a bad little tablet from what I have seen. I have not used the new HD version, only the original fire tablet that is now marked down to $129
Amazon’s margins overall are currently around 2.4%. TAKE THAT Apple.
I think that if the unit kindle fire figures were ACTUALLY impressive numbers they (amazon) would trumpet those actual numbers.
The fact that they aren’t, speaks volumes.
$129?! They already lost money last quarter. Wow. Logic defies a lot of people.
I frankly don’t understand how financial analysts can turn on a company like Apple when record profits weren’t as “record” as the analysts thought they should be (and where Apple breaks out its numbers on various product lines), yet they don’t say jack about the duplicity of Amazon when Amazon trumpets such vague and unsubstantiated claims. No one outside fan forums is calling Amazon to show their numbers. As another poster above stated, why aren’t stockholders questioning what Amazon executives aren’t reporting? Why aren’t analysts jumping on this and previous claims without proof? How does Amazon manage to get away with this?
uh, cuz they’re big fat liars?
+1
Great post, Jeff.
“The two most searched-for products through most of Cyber Monday were the Kindle Fire and Ugg boots, says Experian Marketing Services, a company that helps retailers with digital marketing and analyzing consumer data. The five retail websites receiving the most “Cyber Monday” searches were CyberMonday.com, Target, Amazon, Walmart and MSN.Money, in that order, the Experian data show.”
When Ugg boots tops iPad/iPhone in search results, clearly Apple is Doomed.
As Cyrano Jones would say… Twice nothing is still nothing.
Billy Preston said, “nothing from nothing leaves nothing.”
John Lennon said “nothing is real.”
Marvin Gaye said “ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby.”
Botvinnik said, “I ain’t nothing but a hound dog.” 🙂
You’re in NYC yet you neglected this?
I am not in New York, I am one of The Brethren Of The Yankees Universe.
Fine. But I bet you don’t live in Boston.
So who really cares if ‘Kindle’ had a good day or not? In reality they are and will continue to be ‘irrelevant’ in the true scheme of things, namely ‘Tablets’.
That’s funny since I also had my biggest Kindle sales day.
Amazon is playing a high stakes poker game with investment/
financial communities, sooner or later somebody gonna figure
out their card and call them.
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