Re: DC Sales, October 2003

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marc-Oliver 
Frisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> Since I don't buy that in the slightest and think it would be pretty 
> much pointless in most cases to run the numbers as presented, I'll 
> shamelessly improvise and be the nightmare of any self-respecting 
> number-cruncher: I've taken the liberty of bumping 10% off any estimate 
> provided by icv2.com this month -- et voila, the numbers are right back 
> where they should reasonably be.

While you're absolutely correct about the 10% correction, I think it's 
worth stressing that historically ICV2 has always estimated low.  From 
what I gather, the higher figures they've produced this month are 
actually MORE likely to be correct.

They still fuck up the trends hopelessly, of course, so doing it your 
way results in much more useful trend data.

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