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eBay Video listing results; small blog with weekly Top Ten
Topic Started: May 1 2011, 02:02 AM (658 Views)
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(Partly) inspired by this thread at the pre-cert.co.uk’s ‘Australian Collector’s Corner’ I started a little blog project about 3 weeks ago to showcase and archive (as screenshots) the highest selling video-tapes on the different eBay-platforms every week. I'm satisfied with how it's going so far, therefore it's time to make it public and share the link: http://videoprices.wordpress.com/
I’m known to start online projects and then abandon them shortly after, because I think they’re not worth the time I have to invest. To keep this thing going any feedback would be greatly appreciated. This blog could especially use some expert analysis of the weekly results, since I hardly know anything about tape-collecting. Please leave a comment and let me know what you think.
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Most keen collectors keep at least half an eye on the Ebay sites, looking for rare titles to buy & also compare prices etc. This is a pretty time consuming project for sure, but certainly one that is highly informative & interesting for many people I'm sure, so thank you for sharing.
It really is quite facinating seeing a title vary so much in what it sells for. With your statistics it may well provide extra insight as to hot & cold selling spells. Times of the year, times of the day & how item listed. There are many ways to sell on Ebay & experience counts for a lot as quite often wording makes a huge difference in how a movie sells. With this study it may well just give the seller in particular a better opportunity to acquire more for their item.
Thanks again.
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Nice idea B) . What we need is VHS data base like http://www.popsike.com or/and http://www.collectorsfrenzy.com .
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May 1 2011, 06:26 AM
Nice idea  B) . What we need is VHS data base like http://www.popsike.com or/and http://www.collectorsfrenzy.com .

Very nice sites, but they don't include some information I'd deem necessary to understand how a certain price was reached, such as all the pictures included in the listing, infos on the seller or the complete list of bids placed etc.
If I had the skills necessary to write a script like that, the project would be much better/bigger ;) (but then again I'd probably build an entirely different video database first)

Here's what I posted on the blog today:
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This project has been running for 13 weeks now (¼ year). I will try to keep it up for another 13 weeks, but if there isn't any more interest in it, I'll most likely stop it then.

Simple reason: it takes me ~15 min. to look up all the results myself, whereas I have yet to manage to schedule all posts for a week in less then 2.5 hours. Now that might be fine if I knew that there was some interest, however there has been absolutely no discussion of the results either on the blog itself (still without any comment) or elsewhere (that I know of) and of the barely 10 views it gets per day (the numbers are actually dropping) about 80% seem to be either bots or people looking for something else entirely.

btw: there will be a new #1 for the Top25 this week, and I even think it's entirely possible that everything went kosher with the deal.
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