Originally Posted by sharpshooter90  Trying to find out by plotting serial #'s and dates is near impossible. Most manufacturers do not start at # 1 and progress from there. Usually they pick a larger number like # 125 and then add the year- 12506. Then they simply change the year as things go along, so if # 125 was sold in December, then the next machine out in 07 would be 12607. This makes it difficult to tell if they sold 125 units in 06 and 126 units in 07 etc. If you really want to know exactly how many machines they have sold, go to www.alibaba.com- this is a web site that is tied into the US customs and you can look up exactly how many machines they have imported in any year, from whom, the cost etc. Just as a teaser you will be shocked at the volume in 2008 compared to 2006. |
Please don’t take this the wrong way but you sound
like you’ve done this type of thing before, so why not just post the #’s