Fun fact: Amazon has argued in litigation that it would take over 5,000 hours to collect sales information on a couple of thousand products. When they want to r

Fun fact: Amazon has argued in litigation that it would take over 5,000 hours to collect sales information on a couple of thousand products. When they want to restrict data from their own teams, they can easily. Anyone who's ever dealt with a database understands that this kind of query wouldn't take more than a couple of hours if you had access to the database. Amazon clearly built a system to limit the amount of access their legal team has, presumably to avoid having to give out significant amounts of data. If the retail team needed this data to improve their algorithms or something there's no question they'd have been able to get it without putting 5,000 man-hours into it. https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.427726/gov.uscourts.nysd.427726.927.0.pdf https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.427726... >As a result, I estimate that producing responsive information to Plaintiffs’ request for sales data for 5,376 ASINs from October 1, 2011 to the present will take between 5,376 and 8,064 hours of Amazon paralegal time. Assuming a 40 hour work week, based on these estimates it would take one paralegal working full time 2.5 to 3.8 years to collect just the sales data Plaintiffs are seeking from Amazon. I calculated this based on my estimate of 60-90 minutes per ASIN for 5,376 ASINs.