I got a batch of extra sales today, but then I had a new release, so I attribute the sales to that.

I wonder if anyone else has noticed a sudden splurge of sales today - I haven't had very good sales this month on Amazon, though for various reasons I haven't bothered to do anything about it - but today my sales graph has gone nuts, relatively speaking. When this happens I usually imagine they've suddenly 'found a backlog of sales that somehow missed being recorded before, so I wondered if it was some general tidy-up.

Simon, I'm curious, when you are setting up the ad do you change the default and custom bid on the original ad set up page and still have to do this?

I always change custom bid (if you mean the drop-down above the spot where you select the targets) and when I add all the targets they're all set to my price. Therefore I never have to go through this procedure when first setting up an ad.

I rarely change the default bid.

Made some changes, set it down to $5 a day just in case, and set it going again.

Thanks for the help.

The select all seems to have done all of them the first time, regardless of what was being viewed.

By targets do you mean keywords? I have 993 of those.

Yes - I used 'targets' because you might have been using asins, categories, etc.