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Old 16th September 2005, 12:42 AM
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I'm pretty sure Oricon counts the sales as in bought by CUSTOMERS, because just as K said they sometimes announce the shipment number and then the actual sales number is totally different.

And I remember someone on board claiming that Oricon only surveys the largest 50% of distributors in Japan, which makes sense, so if Yesasia is relatively smaller then the sales they make wouldn't count. Some one should ask Yesasia about this...
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