Comments on: There Are Lies, Damn Lies And Then There Are Statistics http://davisfreeberg.com/2008/08/05/there-are-lies-damn-lies-and-then-there-are-statistics/ Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:12:30 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: David Tapia http://davisfreeberg.com/2008/08/05/there-are-lies-damn-lies-and-then-there-are-statistics/comment-page-1/#comment-171014 David Tapia Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:34:01 +0000 http://davisfreeberg.com/2008/08/05/there-are-lies-damn-lies-and-then-there-are-statistics/#comment-171014 In their earnings release, Netflix states that 176,000 subscribers (roughly 2.1%) of their total are free trial-membership subscribers. If you multiply your computed 3-month revenue number of $352 million by .979, you get a number that is much closer to the reported $337.6 million. Also, an article in the Tampa Bay Business Journal seems to confirm your estimate of about 2 million DVDs shipped per day. http://sanantonio.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2008/08/11/daily59.html In their earnings release, Netflix states that 176,000 subscribers (roughly 2.1%) of their total are free trial-membership subscribers. If you multiply your computed 3-month revenue number of $352 million by .979, you get a number that is much closer to the reported $337.6 million.

Also, an article in the Tampa Bay Business Journal seems to confirm your estimate of about 2 million DVDs shipped per day.

http://sanantonio.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2008/08/11/daily59.html

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