Author Topic: Lovely sales pattern! (Read 7060 times)

derek · « **on:** July 31, 2017, 03:08 »

All through May and June my pattern was exactly the same. zero during all night! and waking up to 2 sales! Now during all July Its dead during night and morning and at exactly around 11 comes the sales and it dies at around 22.00. exactly the same during all July.

No big deal but it makes me wonder how they manage engineer this?

sharpshot · « **Reply #1 on:** July 31, 2017, 03:17 »

Perhaps they don't. People love to find patterns in randomness. With so many contributors, the sales stats are going to look strange for some people over a short period of time.

namussi · « **Reply #2 on:** July 31, 2017, 03:21 »

People are not very good at recognising randomness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_clumping

"Poisson clumping is used to explain marked increases or decreases in the frequency of an event, such as shark attacks, 'coincidences', birthdays, or heads or tails from coin tosses, and e-mail correspondence."

dpimborough · « **Reply #3 on:** July 31, 2017, 03:39 »

I prefer the old adage

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.

Artist · « **Reply #4 on:** July 31, 2017, 03:40 »

Quote from: namussi on July 31, 2017, 03:21

People are not very good at recognising randomness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_clumping

"Poisson clumping is used to explain marked increases or decreases in the frequency of an event, such as shark attacks, 'coincidences', birthdays, or heads or tails from coin tosses, and e-mail correspondence."

Interesting.

Brasilnut · « **Reply #5 on:** July 31, 2017, 03:53 »

Pauws99 · « **Reply #6 on:** July 31, 2017, 04:15 »

Quote from: derek on July 31, 2017, 03:08

All through May and June my pattern was exactly the same. zero during all night! and waking up to 2 sales! Now during all July Its dead during night and morning and at exactly around 11 comes the sales and it dies at around 22.00. exactly the same during all July.

No big deal but it makes me wonder how they manage engineer this?

Maybe related to where you get your sales....mine are mostly Europe no surprise I don't get many at 2:00 am

BaldricksTrousers · « **Reply #7 on:** July 31, 2017, 04:23 »

There's always the possibility that they are batch processing sales rather than posting them all one at a time. The data page already says: *Updated approximately every 15 minutes. So the process isn't immediate in any case.

Pauws99 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 31, 2017, 04:25 »

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on July 31, 2017, 04:23

There's always the possibility that they are batch processing sales rather than posting them all one at a time. The data page already says it updates hourly, doesn't it? So the process isn't immediate in any case.

yeah I think that I sometimes get a little run particularly late evenings sometimes which I doubt is a prime time to sell. I don't understand why SS would want to engineer people getting sales at particular times but thats an old discussion ;-).

Lana · « **Reply #9 on:** July 31, 2017, 06:45 »

I get most of my sales while I sleep, but that's because I sleep in Asia and most of my sales come from Americas

SpaceStockFootage · « **Reply #10 on:** July 31, 2017, 07:00 »

Quote from: Lana on July 31, 2017, 06:45

I get most of my sales while I sleep, but that's because I sleep in Asia and most of my sales come from Americas

We should go for drinks!

Lana · « **Reply #11 on:** July 31, 2017, 07:46 »

Quote from: SpaceStockFootage on July 31, 2017, 07:00

Quote from: Lana on July 31, 2017, 06:45
I get most of my sales while I sleep, but that's because I sleep in Asia and most of my sales come from Americas

We should go for drinks!

If I'm not mistaken you're in Cambodia, well i'm a couple of thousand km away

SpaceStockFootage · « **Reply #12 on:** July 31, 2017, 08:11 »

I get around. I get to Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Australia about twice a year.

derek · « **Reply #13 on:** July 31, 2017, 08:40 »

Right now 4 ELs have come in and if I am reading the map Ok they seem to have come from Japan or there abouts. Must be the same buyer judging by the picture choice.

Zero Talent · « **Reply #14 on:** July 31, 2017, 08:56 »

Quote from: derek on July 31, 2017, 03:08

All through May and June my pattern was exactly the same. zero during all night! and waking up to 2 sales! Now during all July Its dead during night and morning and at exactly around 11 comes the sales and it dies at around 22.00. exactly the same during all July.

No big deal but it makes me wonder how they manage engineer this?

There is not much happening on the Pacific Ocean, during working hours. I also heard that working hours on the Atlantic Ocean are pretty boring

UKstock · « **Reply #15 on:** July 31, 2017, 09:18 »

Get a room Spacestock and Lana!

SpaceStockFootage · « **Reply #16 on:** July 31, 2017, 09:38 »

I wish!

Bad Company · « **Reply #17 on:** July 31, 2017, 11:48 »

Quote from: SpaceStockFootage on July 31, 2017, 09:38

I wish!

Now we are a dating site

MSG= "Men Seeking Gals"

YadaYadaYada · « **Reply #18 on:** August 01, 2017, 10:00 »

Quote from: Brasilnut on July 31, 2017, 03:53

Yours looks like a pirate or a musketeer to me?

Yes, especially faces

Human mind is very good at finding patterns, where there is no pattern.

Microstockphoto · « **Reply #19 on:** August 02, 2017, 02:30 »

i see a pattern too, same every week, i see a number of downloads on the first 3 days mon-wed which are almost identical, then they drop by 40% on thu-fri and then i have 1 dl on sat and 1dl on sun, and the cycle repeats.

so for example (not actual) 20-21-19-13-11-1-1, every week. its probably random and coincedental but remarkable nontheless

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