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Post by mpanayiotakis on Jun 20, 2008 16:26:04 GMT 2
Yeah, the problem of re-sales is an important one for our statistics and can't be easily eliminated I'm afraid unless someone can check if a buyer sells a similar item later on and remove those auctions from our numbers. Games with duplicate serials that come from the same seller should be removed as well because some transactions might not have been completed in the end and seller might have tried to resell them again and again. After removing those auctions we will have a more clear view on the rarity but it's a lot of hard work.
I understand what you're saying Andy, the same item might have appeared 20 times in Ebay and if we count all of its 20 appearances then it seems that it might not be so rare which isn't really true!!
Michael
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Post by Br3nd4N on Jun 27, 2008 6:47:17 GMT 2
I think as long as we use the "all things being equal" approach, the data should be fairly accurate.
-B
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Post by conkers on Jul 5, 2008 1:16:08 GMT 2
Pat, what software do you use for tracking and copying these auctions to your database... or do you do it manually ?
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Post by Gawaleus on Jul 11, 2008 7:12:07 GMT 2
Pat, what software do you use for tracking and copying these auctions to your database... or do you do it manually ? Sorry for the late reply, I wasn't around here for a few days. I use the software BayWotch to fetch all the auction data. It for sure is a great program :-) Once I have the data, I must sort them out and do all the categorizing (game model number, game edition etc.). After that I export the data from bayWotch into a CSV file. Last step is to copy and paste the data from the .csv file into an exel file which creates the SQL statement by runing many macros. Patrick
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