Amazon's consumer electronics business surpassed music in 2000 to become its second largest business, and had been open for 17 months.
Resolved true The record shows it happened or was so.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
The second judge would not resolve this claim; the verdict shown is the first judge's.
Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.
What would count as true or false
TRUE: Amazon records or contemporaneous reporting show two things. First, consumer electronics sales exceeded music sales in 2000, making electronics Amazon's second-largest category. Second, the electronics store launched about 17 months before the end of 2000, around July 1999 (16 to 18 months counts). MOSTLY TRUE: the ranking held, but the store's age is off by a few months. MOSTLY FALSE: electronics passed music only partly, such as in some quarters or on a different measure, or the passing happened after 2000. FALSE: music remained larger than electronics in 2000, or electronics was not the second-largest category.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (2)
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E1 amzn0214 - MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Prudential Securities (Prudential Volpe Technology Group), analyst Mark J. Rowen · 15 February 2001
“In August 2000, AMZN announced that this store was its second-largest revenue generator (after books), ahead of its more mature music and video stores.”
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E2 amzn0214 - MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Prudential Securities (Prudential Volpe Technology Group), analyst Mark J. Rowen · 15 February 2001
“Amazon also opened its consumer electronics store in July 1999.”
Reasoning
A Prudential Securities analyst report from February 2001 says Amazon announced in August 2000 that its consumer electronics store was its second-largest revenue generator after books, ahead of its music and video stores (E1). That puts electronics ahead of music during 2000. The same report says the electronics store opened in July 1999 (E2), about 17 months before the end of 2000, which fits the criteria's window of 16 to 18 months.
Cite this claim
Jeff Bezos, “Amazon's consumer electronics business surpassed music in 2000 to become its second largest business, and had been open for 17 months.” (said 2 April 2001). Verdict: resolved true. Reliability API, claim c_15ced4a6389d, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_15ced4a6389d
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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