posted on May 8, 2004 05:35:08 PM new
i was wondering if there were any available statistics on what are the most popular items and what are the average closing prices given a given day, week, etc. figured this would be helpful information for sellers and that some site out there has this data cataloged. does anyone know where to find this type of information? does anyone know of any other helpful links for sellers who are doing research of this type?
posted on May 8, 2004 10:06:55 PM new
If you find it, let the rest of us know as well.
Ebay comes out with some Bull sh-- stats about what is popular, but when you read between the lines, you will realize that it is listing stats which in most cases is just that. Listing stats does not mean those are sales stats and in my experience in investigating ebays stats, they tend to lean to what will make them money and not the seller.
posted on May 8, 2004 11:19:57 PM new
That is exactly what I was talking about. A very bad source of info. That list is what is being listed. Not sold. Very much two different things.
posted on May 9, 2004 08:41:54 AM new
Any information posted for public consumption becomes immediately useless because you will have hundreds of cop-out sellers jumping on the bandwagon immediately flooding the catagory and thereby immediately diluting bid numbers and ending prices.
The only way to obtain this type of information in a useful form is to do your own research or to pay someone else to do it. (ebay now sells these type of stats).
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
posted on May 9, 2004 09:45:44 AM new
Auctionbytes reported some figures on collectibles. I remeber them reporting the prices falling for GI Joes and several other items, and a figure on overall prices.
