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The point is it doesn't matter how many units they sell to Best Buy, what matters is how many units they sell to consumers.

This happens all the time, we hear about X millions of units "shipped" only to find out months later that a small fraction of those actually made it into consumers hands.

Given the incredible popularity of the GS2 among the Android community, I'd say it's not unreasonable to think the GS3 will sell well.

No one is saying it won't sell well. They're saying that reporting carrier orders as "sales pre-orders" lacks an important detail. Thus, some are calling bullshit on the headline.

There might well be a term that says they can return unsold stock.

>>I'm pretty certain the carriers do their homework before placing orders.

The Android manufacturers cited deliveries to stores as sales for the first generation of pads too. That didn't exactly work out...