54% Buy Rate

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...730-_-06042011

This drive is very nice, but it is 500 bucks. The thing that caught
my eye was, in the review column on the right it says...........

54% Buy Rate
After viewing this page, 54% of customers who made a purchase before
leaving bought this item.

I don't believe that.

Metspitzer wrote:

54% Buy Rate
After viewing this page, 54% of customers who made a purchase before
leaving bought this item.

I don't believe that.

Um, and just why did YOU go looking at Newegg's product page? Most
likely it was because either you wanted to find that drive because you
wanted to buy it and you already trust Newegg from prior purchases or
you're perusing around to find a price range for the product - so, yeah,
about half a chance that you're there to buy.

While Newegg doesn't have rock bottom pricing, they're at the low end,
they have established a trusted online vendor presence, and return
buyers like their support. As an online vendor, they're overall pretty
good. So there's a good chance that you're looking for something that
you already decided to buy. If you're one of those looking for
specialty hardware then there's even a greater chance that you're there
to buy if they are within the price range you will accept a price. With
a more select and smaller populace searching for a particular hardware
device, and also them belonging to a group that is willing to sacrifice
more of their money for bleeding or front edge technology, it's pretty
easy for a minor fluctuation in behavior to exhibit a large percentage
change. A "membership" of 1 person can easily claim their enrollment
has doubled after just 1 new enlistment.

Go do a guided search at Newegg that involves a hell of a lot more
users, like for a hard disk. Go look at the hard disk product category,
keep picking the groups with the highest numbers: highest number of hard
disk types, highest number in capacity, highest number in manufacturer,
and so on (i.e., go find the hard disk size, type, maker, etc that is
marketing to the most users). You'll see the buy rate go down. More
users where looking around at pricing and wandering around changing
their search criteria to match up their wants with their wallet. You
have a larger populace looking at that product, and for a common product
where they are price shopping and more likely to look at other products
trying to shave off the price.

Folks looking at SSDs have already decided to overpay for storage hoping
to trade more of their money for performance. They're motivated buyers.
Folks looking at hard disks are more likely to shop around.

So who are we going to believe? You who distrust a statistic that you
didn't generate? Or the vendor who has the statistics that are easily
captured by their site and store scripts?

On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 23:19:03 -0400, Metspitzer
wrote:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...730-_-06042011

This drive is very nice, but it is 500 bucks. The thing that caught
my eye was, in the review column on the right it says...........

54% Buy Rate
After viewing this page, 54% of customers who made a purchase before
leaving bought this item.

I don't believe that.

Well, I guess I do believe it.... But it got me to wondering (since I
already have one of their 120 GB drives), is there any advantage or
disadvantage to running 2 120 GB drives in RAID 0, vs one of these
monsters? I would think the 2 120's would be faster (can anyone
confirm this?) and would be about $100 cheaper.

"Metspitzer" wrote in message
...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...730-_-06042011

This drive is very nice, but it is 500 bucks. The thing that caught
my eye was, in the review column on the right it says...........

54% Buy Rate
After viewing this page, 54% of customers who made a purchase before
leaving bought this item.

I don't believe that.


I just checked today, Wed 8 June 2011 and now it claims 11% buy rate

Shaun