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Re: ebay and auczilla stats
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Wed, 1 Mar 2000 02:12:04 GMT
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(cjc@newsguy.)Spamcake(com)
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On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 00:06:34 GMT, "Todd Lehman" <lehman@javanet.com>
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> No, you're mistaken. It's not public information.
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> Each individual bid is publicly available information, yes.
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> But to tally up each person's bids from publicly available information and
> then post that _new_ information (which is not publicly available) is
> arguably an invasion of a bidder's privacy, and I'm sure a lot of people
> would complain or at best feel uncomfortable.
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 there were times when I only bid
on a certain type of piece...
> Again, how much each person is spending is _not_ public information. Each
> individual bid is, yes -- but not the totals.
Well, aside from the buyer issue, as I don't really care to know what
any individual is spending, but would rather like the stats on what
things are going _for_, would you mind if that data were gathered? I
assume you already have it since you've posted pretty informative tiny
bits of info about past AucZILLA auction results for individual pieces
or totals of a certain lot across several auctions, etc.
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| (...) 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, (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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| | Re: ebay and auczilla stats
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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 1-Mar-00, to lugnet.market.auction)
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