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Elmo asked

Continuing drop in sales

Hello, anyone else seeing a continuing drop in sales over the last 4-5 months? We dropped by over 80% since November 2014. Before that, we had constant sales since starting the app. If this will go on, we can remove the app from the store because it doesn't generate any sales. I thought Amazon is better in revenue for a long time. But it seems something is going wrong here. I know that sales can differ from month to month but not this continuing drop. The most interesting part is that our app is in the same sales rank than before the drop. Also, we are in the top 10-20 on some categories. This position also didn't change since the drop. So why is there a drop in sales? I would be happy if someone from Amazon would answer to this! Thanks!
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Tyreal answered
I am wondering the same thing. For a while I was getting between 100 and 150 downloads a day. Revenue was starting to come in and I was making more money on Amazon than Google and Apple combined, as meager as it was. And then one day my downloads dropped to 80. The next day 40. Then 15. 8 and finally right down to 0. I have no idea what happened. I didn't touch my store listing or release a broken update. It was like someone just artificially reduced my ranking to the bottom of the charts. And now I'm stuck there, getting either 0 or 1 download a day.
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Amadeus answered
There was a day I got 0 download for a game that gets about 7000 per day on Google Play. It was getting about 70-100 in the past which was reasonable, and now... I suppose the decline in Kindle Fire sales can be blamed for that?
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