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The $25,000 PDF at Amazon
Edit: Forgot to say, very same PDF is for free on IDC website http://www.idc.com/MarketScape/download/IDC_MarketScape_Virtual_Tape_Library.pdf
- stephengillie 14y agoThis is how smart criminals launder money?
- antr 14y agoit may very well be. the smart ones do thousand of small, "insignificant" transactions.
- blacksmith_tb 14y agoI've wondered if that isn't the case, actually, on some non-digital products. You'll see a bunch of sellers offering an item around Amazon's own price, and then someone else selling it for $999.00. Those could just be tests, I suppose...
- hfs 14y agoHere's a pretty interesting read on automated price adjustments by third party sellers: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358 http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
- mikecane 14y agoAnd it's just 20 pages long! Damn. Never saw us charging like that when I worked for one of their subsidiaries.
- notatoad 14y agoI've never been so terrified of a "buy with one-click" button in my life.
- joell 14y agoBe scared. http://www.amazon.com/American-Microsemiconductor-120293-0001REVK/dp/B005DBD5D0/ref=pd_sim_sbs_bt_2 http://www.amazon.com/American-Microsemiconductor-120293-000...
- pavel_lishin 14y agoGoogling around has led me to http://120293-0001revkmicrosemiconductor.blogspot.com/ http://120293-0001revkmicrosemiconductor.blogspot.com/, which greatly puzzles me.
- sadga 14y agoAmazon affiliate advertising bot.
- aqme28 14y agoGuessing it's an affiliate marketing scheme. Some guy made a bot that generates blogspot blogs that refer to various Amazon products. When you click on any of those Amazon links they'll use his affiliate id.
- gee_totes 14y agoActually it's not an affiliate bot. Whatever a microsemiconductor is, it costs 10 million dollars: http://store.americanmicrosemiconductor.com/120293-0001revk.html http://store.americanmicrosemiconductor.com/120293-0001revk.... I also enjoy the negative 9 million dollar discount you get. Does anyone know what a microsemiconductor does?
- kgermino 14y agoThey make up for it with the $10 shipping.
- gruenewa 14y agoI have added it to my Amazon Whish List ...
- tptacek 14y agoSubtext, for those of you who don't know how analyst firms work: Vendors subscribe to these things, or buy reports for their field, in order to get access to analysts. Access to analysts ensures that they themselves will appear in these reports.
- makmanalp 14y agoWhat is an analyst? Just any kind of analyst, in the traditional sense of the word? How do you get access to people when you subscribe to a publication? Why would they want to be in those reports? I'm confused!
- tptacek 14y agoAnalysts are the people who write about subsets of the technology market for market research firms. They travel to vendors and to large companies who buy from vendors and attempt to assess the whole market; then they write these reports, which are ostensibly intended to help enterprise purchasers pick the right products (and thus easily justify 5-figure price tags).
- makmanalp 14y agoI understand now. Thanks!
- iuguy 14y agoI think you're failing to distinguish between companies like Gartner, who are more along the lines of what you describe (i.e. mass-market research) and other companies (like mpclark's) that have a small audience and need a lot of work to produce these reports.
- tptacek 14y agoI have no idea who 'mpclark is or what his research firm does; we're commenting about a very large enterprise analyst firm here.
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- chmod775 14y agoYou will get a $5 Amazon MP3 Credit if you buy a textbook >$25. So I guess it's worth it.
- powerslave12r 14y agoSo what can I sell this copy for? http://www.idc.com/MarketScape/download/IDC_MarketScape_Virtual_Tape_Library.pdf http://www.idc.com/MarketScape/download/IDC_MarketScape_Virt...
- tawm 14y agoI accidentally downloaded the PDF. What do owe you?
- powerslave12r 14y agoSince I already read it once, I'll give you a 50% discount.
- brianhempel 14y agoIndeed, the $25,000 PDF is also available as one of the free samples on IDC's website. "Download Samples Now" on this page: http://www.idc.com/MarketScape/index.jsp http://www.idc.com/MarketScape/index.jsp
- timjahn 14y agoThe reviews at the bottom are priceless.
- majorapps 14y agoSo you can review a product thats available on Amazon without actually having purchased it? Surely thats a flaw?
- mcpherrinm 14y agoThis was a design decision made long ago at Amazon. The reasoning is quite simple: If you buy a product somewhere else, or want to write a review based on the description, you should be able to share the information you want. Not to mention you get some pretty funny fake reviews on products like the three wolf moon shirt.
- sadga 14y agoThey have "Verified Purchaser" badges to help you interpret a review.
- motoford 14y agoHere is what I get in my "Customers who viewed this also viewed" list: 120293-0001REVK: $10mil (various electronic components?) Zenith Men's Extreme Tourbillion watch: 90k 6-in-1 keychain multitool: $9.95 Dating for Dummies: $14.95 Giant inflatable human hamster ball: $1,699.99 Tactical Bleeding Zombie Target: $94.59 I assume you guys are responsible for these?
- motoford 14y agoI just noticed those jerks at American Semiconductor are charging ten dollars shipping for the $10,000,000.00 part. What a rip!
- madmax108 14y agoHaha... that's a dealbreaker right? Give me free shipping and I'll buy it before you can say 'semiconductor'! :P EDIT: Review of the microsemiconductor: "Sure, the price looks okay for a microsemiconductor. However, for only 6.3 million dollars more, I was able to purchase a macro whole conductor, Sir Simon Rattle of the Berlin Philharmonic." ROFL
- alpb 14y agoForgot to say, I believe the very same PDF is available at http://www.idc.com/MarketScape/download/IDC_MarketScape_Virtual_Tape_Library.pdf http://www.idc.com/MarketScape/download/IDC_MarketScape_Virt...
- Xcelerate 14y agoThat "Buy now with 1 click" button makes me nervous.
- salem 14y agoWhat's the big deal, I remember a CD of Janes books used to cost $10,000, and that was in the 90's without widely available broadband.