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    ebay and auczilla stats —Dan Boger
   I was bored at work the other day, so I wrote a couple of little scripts, just to see what would happen. Ebay stats - I was wondering if I could make some sort of meter of the auctions on ebay, somewhat like the dow jones... Here's what I found: (...) (24 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
   
        Re: ebay and auczilla stats —David Blomberg
     I'm interested in this information. LEGO-VOL has the dollar sum of auctions that ended in the past seven days: $61431 x 52 weeks = nearly $3.2M / year. Wow. To me, that's a lot of money. But to TLC, I assume it is not- TLC had $1.3B 1999 total (...) (24 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.theory)
    
         Re: ebay and auczilla stats —Kevin Loch
      It's also interesting to note that people are spending 3M+ for LEGO on Ebay each year, and *not* spending it on Town Jr. sets that they might otherwise buy. KL (...) just (...) auctions (...) at (...) you (...) "blue-sets"? (...) much (...) (24 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.theory)
    
         Re: ebay and auczilla stats —Jennifer L. Boger
     (...) we've started to do that already, however, we only have about 2 months of data (not great for lego, i think 6mo would be best) and we're only counting US, FPO/APO and Canadian auctions (sorry, the rest mess up the prices) and complete sets (...) (24 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.market.auction)
    
         Re: ebay and auczilla stats —David Blomberg
      Well- the Dow Jones was named after Charles Dow and Edward Jones. I think you should name your tracking indices after yourself... or some famous celebrity in the world of Lego. The Boger and Boger Set Index, the Boger and Boger Brick Index or Piece (...) (24 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
     
          Re: ebay and auczilla stats —Shiri Dori
      (...) I disagree. It might not have a real meaning, but the first is definitely pronouncable: the Boger And Boger Set Index aka the BABSI. I have to suggest this: the Boger And Mrs. Boger Index, forming BAMBI... ;) -Shiri (24 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
     
          Re: ebay and auczilla stats —Jennifer L. Boger
       (...) I like instead of the DJIA maybe the D&JLA or something.. however, it still doesn't seem great, the only other thing i came up with was "brickworth" which would make us another "brick" site (no offence intended) or "studworth" which may get (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
      
           Re: ebay and auczilla stats —John Robert Blaze Kanehl
       (...) How about "The B.O.M.B:" B oger O n-line M arket B rief ****offered in the same loving spirit as BURP and CRAPP = ) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
     
          Re: ebay and auczilla stats —Stephen F. Roberts
      (...) ...Oh yea!!! Definitely the BAMBI :-) ...you can go back to ignoring me now... wubwub stephen f roberts wildlink.com lugnet #160 (24 years ago, 2-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
    
         Re: ebay and auczilla stats —Tom Stangl
     (...) That makes me feel better - the 3 I got on Ebay within the last 2 months cost me $275, $305, and $350, with one Mint and one MISB ;-) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) Bay Area DSMs (24 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.market.auction)
    
         Re: ebay and auczilla stats —Erik Olson
      (...) Where are all the criers-out against price guides now? If you search ebay today, you see 271, 305, 461 for hammer price on 4558. Remember the third class of lies. -Erik (needs a Metroliner bad, but not that bad.) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.market.auction)
    
         Re: ebay and auczilla stats —Jennifer L. Boger
     (...) were they from inside the us or canada? those should be in our list, but I don't see them (i think we started tracking info since the end of dec) just curious, not prodding :) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory, lugnet.market.auction)
   
        Re: ebay and auczilla stats —Todd Lehman
   (...) I'd really rather that you didn't. Especially individual peoples' private totals -- that's their business. Yes, someone could write a script to tally up how much each person is spending, but by nature it's not really public information. It (...) (24 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
   
        Re: ebay and auczilla stats —Bruce Schlickbernd
     (...) Absolutely - I already cringe when Todd includes on his bills ("Pay up, ya deadbeat") what I spent on previous auctions. :-) Bruce (24 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
    
         Re: ebay and auczilla stats —Steve Bliss
     (...) I only cringe when Kristin sees what I spent on previous auctions. Steve (24 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
    
         Re: ebay and auczilla stats —Bruce Schlickbernd
     (...) Shhhhhhhh! I was hoping people could read between the lines and figure out why I was cringing - don't say the "wife" word! :-) Bruce (24 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
   
        Re: ebay and auczilla stats —Will Middelaer
      (...) Actually, because of the way that you have designed Auczilla, it is, by definition, public information. Not to say that the terms of use might include, or be made to include, an agreement by users that they won't gather such information using (...) (24 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
    
         Re: ebay and auczilla stats —Todd Lehman
     (...) No, you're mistaken. It's not public information. Each individual bid is publicly available information, yes. But to tally up each person's bids from publicly available information and then post that _new_ information (which is not publicly (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
    
         Re: ebay and auczilla stats —Kevin Loch
      (...) I agree with that. Anonymizing the derivative data would solve that. It might even be a good idea to anonymize the bidding pages themselves. (24 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
     
          Re: ebay and auczilla stats —Todd Lehman
      (...) That would probably solve the individual bidder portion, yes. (...) No, then the personal updates via e-mail would also have to be anonymized, otherwise anyone who wanted to try to tally up people's amounts could just get it from a big e-mail (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction, lugnet.market.theory)
     
          Re: ebay and auczilla stats —Todd Lehman
      (...) One other thing, related: Many people browse the web listings -- or check in periodically -- from work or from a public place where they aren't able to get to their email, so in many cases, they need to be able to see their name, to know (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.theory)
    
         Re: ebay and auczilla stats —Mike Stanley
     (...) So if person A bids on 3 lots of the same piece, one right after the other, each for $1.00 each, the total of those 3 lots, $3.00, _isn't_ public information? Now granted, most people probably have bids spanning multiple pages, but I know (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
    
         Re: ebay and auczilla stats —Todd Lehman
     (...) That's an extreme case, but, no, I don't think their total in that case is public information. The fact that they're spending $1.00 each on those three lots is publicly available information, but if you add $1.00 + $1.00 + $1.00 and get $3.00, (...) (24 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
   
        Re: ebay and auczilla stats —Dan Boger
   (...) sure thing - that's why I asked in the first place. I could see it's possible you won't want this. :) Dan (24 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
 

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