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<blockquote data-quote="Porridge" data-source="post: 8329806" data-attributes="member: 7020143">A brief follow-up: In theory, it's not completely hopeless to make such comparisons. One can use Amazon sales estimators for both categories, and then use those to work out what the &quot;toys &amp; games&quot; rank would correspond to if the product were put back into the &quot;books&quot; category. But the Amazon sales estimators I've found are frustratingly inconsistent.For example, the PF2 Core books is currently #9,932 in &quot;toys &amp; games&quot;. According to this <a href="https://amzscout.net/sales-estimator/" target="_blank">this site that's</a> about 641 sales/month. According to the same site 641 sales/month in the &quot;books&quot; category corresponds to a ranking of #680.By contrast, according <a href="https://www.sellerapp.com/amazon-sales-estimator.html" target="_blank">to this site</a>, a ranking of #9,932 in &quot;toys &amp; games&quot; corresponds to about 35-38 sales/day. According to the same site 35-38 sales/day in the &quot;books&quot; category corresponds to a ranking of #15(!), which would be substantially better than the 5e PHB(!!!).The latter number is crazy. And even the first number seems too high. (A rank of #680 would put current PF2 sales on a par with what they were in mid August 2019, a couple weeks after PF2 had been released.)Now, it's plausible that PF2 sales (like 5e sales) have picked up now that the pandemic is easing up and the number of face-to-face games is increasing. But it's hard to get a tangible feel for how much sales have picked up when the means of comparing different categories are so crude.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Porridge, post: 8329806, member: 7020143"] A brief follow-up: In theory, it's not completely hopeless to make such comparisons. One can use Amazon sales estimators for both categories, and then use those to work out what the "toys & games" rank would correspond to if the product were put back into the "books" category. But the Amazon sales estimators I've found are frustratingly inconsistent. For example, the PF2 Core books is currently #9,932 in "toys & games". According to this [URL='https://amzscout.net/sales-estimator/']this site that's[/URL] about 641 sales/month. According to the same site 641 sales/month in the "books" category corresponds to a ranking of #680. By contrast, according [URL='https://www.sellerapp.com/amazon-sales-estimator.html']to this site[/URL], a ranking of #9,932 in "toys & games" corresponds to about 35-38 sales/day. According to the same site 35-38 sales/day in the "books" category corresponds to a ranking of #15(!), which would be substantially better than the 5e PHB(!!!). The latter number is crazy. And even the first number seems too high. (A rank of #680 would put current PF2 sales on a par with what they were in mid August 2019, a couple weeks after PF2 had been released.) Now, it's plausible that PF2 sales (like 5e sales) have picked up now that the pandemic is easing up and the number of face-to-face games is increasing. But it's hard to get a tangible feel for how much sales have picked up when the means of comparing different categories are so crude. [/QUOTE]

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