Hot sellers and the like...

[Gothicina]

So AGAIN... I will speak for myself AND for other eBid members who would agree - For the benefit of the ebid sellers, who are not afraid of competition and are not cry babies - I would like to see a link for sellers to be able to check and see which items are the ones making the greatest impact here on ebid ("hot selling items" AND "most watched items"). Then it will be up to us to pinpoint exactly which products are among the "hot selling items".

Bit like feebay pulse you mean?
It used to be full of manipulated figures & eBooks.

What you suggest would be geared to new, drop shipped or mass produced items, & leave the sellers of second hand or unique items out in the cold.

eBid is a level playing field, we don't have, & I for one certainly don't want, the sort of elitism prevalent on feebay.

[TonyBridger]

Maybe a better idea would be a list of the Top Searches then we could work out the things people are looking for but are not able to buy here.

A better idea than everyone all trying to undercut each other to sell the same Top Selling Item

[kengillam]

Or perhaps the searches that produced zero results, so sellers can fill the gaps

[moonwitch]

Or perhaps the searches that produced zero results, so sellers can fill the gaps

Now...I would love to see that option

[slickdealsrus]

I would disagree with the statement that "hot selling items on other sites are probally all the same and should apply on here" as stated by BAGHAG999.

For example upon checking top selling items on eBay and Amazon in the "Computers and Networking" and "Computers and Acessories" categories you will find that the top selling items are very different.
On eBay the 3 top selling items are:
1. laptop
2. laptop computer
3. dell laptop

and on Amazon the 3 top selling items are:
1. Ranking has gone up in the past 24 hours
Sales Rank in Computer & Accessories: 144 (previously unranked) Archos 9

Archos 9 PC Tablet (Black) by Archos


2. Ranking has gone up in the past 24 hours
Sales Rank in Computer & Accessories: 319 (previously unranked) Gateway SX280001
Gateway SX2800-01 Desktop Computer Intel Quad Core Vista 2Gb DDR3 640Gb DVDRW Keyboard/Mouse/Speakers included by Gateway


3. Ranking has gone up in the past 24 hours 859%
Sales Rank in Computer & Accessories: 327 (was 3,137) Sony VAIO
Sony VAIO VGN-NR460E/P 15.4-inch Laptop (1.86 GHz Intel Pentium Dual-Core T2390 Processor, 2 GB RAM, 200 GB Hard Drive, Vista Premium) Pink by Sony

Upon doing further researching on the eBay top 3 you will clearly find that that they are very different from shopping.com's top three.

Once AGAIN, I will stand firm in my position - there should be a "hot selling items" or "most watched" items link here on ebid and disagree with the statement that it would be "cluttering up the main pages" as indicated by
BAGHAG999.

[Naturelady]

They do have this. It is called Popular Auction! Just do the drop down on the main page site for whichever country you are visiting.

[slickdealsrus]

They do have this. It is called Popular Auction! Just do the drop down on the main page site for whichever country you are visiting.

Thanks so much for your help. It is sincerely appreciated.

[Idealproductsales]

It isnt that simple.. You have to remember eBid does not have the resources of Sleazebay or the big A

Calculating top sellers is not an easy feat, and top searches is also troublesome.. You have to look at it from a programming standpoint.

Calculating or compiling top selling products and top searches is server resource-intensive - (It's called Data Mining) - To keep the site stable and reliable for everyone, they would have to invest in a separate server cluster just for top selling products and searches- This all has to be stored to a database, and then calculated on a regular basis.

Likewise with a request I made something like a year ago (I wanted to get an API that we can connect to to create data mining robots , similar to hammertap ) - the resources and storage that would be required for these features would require they set up a server cluster dedicated to this , alone.. Now if they charged fees like FeeBay did, by now, they could surely afford it. I'm sure it is a feature that will become available *eventually* as the site grows further. However, at the present time, I do not believe it is feasible. As the API is built , and matures over time, I'd imagine they will add features to the API (I am betting it will be XML/SOAP request driven) , they will eventually make certain data available as to the auction listings, past and present .. Since they would not store detailed data on listings for much more than 90 days (I can't see how they could, considering how much data there IS..) , in order to come up with long term trends and top selling items, it would be necessary to have an API for other sites to fetch and store long term data trends.. I would imagine they would at first start with having a single server or small cluster dedicated to handling the API requests, which would be run on a "mirror" of the live website's database. then I'm sure enterprising individuals like myself could build data mining websites to fetch the available data (and they have to make sure that sensitive data is not accessible) ..

In any case, I am betting these are some features that are probably on the "to do" list , but a low priority item at the moment..

Unless of course, you'd rather start paying fees like FleaBay charges.... in which case, you'd do just as well to move back to FleabagBay...

I'd love to see a data mining API come out, as well as hot selling ITEMS (not top selling sellers.. - to be brutally honest, I'd say a majority of people don't really care anyhow.. Buyers come looking for bargains... not specific sellers.. except those buyers that come at invitation of a seller or already have them saved as a favorite seller.. )

Search stats would be great as well - including searches for items that dont return results - more data mining that would give hard working sellers a little bit of a boost..

As for the argument above showing that searches are different between the Big A and SneezeBay ... In a general sense, they ARE the same - all dealing with computers and laptops - I note that the A*z*n is very item specific , while the *bay items are *category* specific - that's pretty much just comparing apples and oranges - In any case, I'd be willing to bet you can use the top results from any one of those sites and get nearly the same results as to what category is selling well here...

I also agree that these results are somewhat biased.. I'd much rather have data mining capabilities to do my own research before having a top selling items list .. hot categories, now, that would be nice and probably quite simple to update on a once a day basis (what category generates most sales.. )

[slickdealsrus]

It isnt that simple.. You have to remember eBid does not have the resources of Sleazebay or the big A

Calculating top sellers is not an easy feat, and top searches is also troublesome.. You have to look at it from a programming standpoint.

Calculating or compiling top selling products and top searches is server resource-intensive - (It's called Data Mining) - To keep the site stable and reliable for everyone, they would have to invest in a separate server cluster just for top selling products and searches- This all has to be stored to a database, and then calculated on a regular basis.

Likewise with a request I made something like a year ago (I wanted to get an API that we can connect to to create data mining robots , similar to hammertap ) - the resources and storage that would be required for these features would require they set up a server cluster dedicated to this , alone.. Now if they charged fees like FeeBay did, by now, they could surely afford it. I'm sure it is a feature that will become available *eventually* as the site grows further. However, at the present time, I do not believe it is feasible. As the API is built , and matures over time, I'd imagine they will add features to the API (I am betting it will be XML/SOAP request driven) , they will eventually make certain data available as to the auction listings, past and present .. Since they would not store detailed data on listings for much more than 90 days (I can't see how they could, considering how much data there IS..) , in order to come up with long term trends and top selling items, it would be necessary to have an API for other sites to fetch and store long term data trends.. I would imagine they would at first start with having a single server or small cluster dedicated to handling the API requests, which would be run on a "mirror" of the live website's database. then I'm sure enterprising individuals like myself could build data mining websites to fetch the available data (and they have to make sure that sensitive data is not accessible) ..

In any case, I am betting these are some features that are probably on the "to do" list , but a low priority item at the moment..

Unless of course, you'd rather start paying fees like FleaBay charges.... in which case, you'd do just as well to move back to FleabagBay...

I'd love to see a data mining API come out, as well as hot selling ITEMS (not top selling sellers.. - to be brutally honest, I'd say a majority of people don't really care anyhow.. Buyers come looking for bargains... not specific sellers.. except those buyers that come at invitation of a seller or already have them saved as a favorite seller.. )

Search stats would be great as well - including searches for items that dont return results - more data mining that would give hard working sellers a little bit of a boost..

As for the argument above showing that searches are different between the Big A and SneezeBay ... In a general sense, they ARE the same - all dealing with computers and laptops - I note that the A*z*n is very item specific , while the *bay items are *category* specific - that's pretty much just comparing apples and oranges - In any case, I'd be willing to bet you can use the top results from any one of those sites and get nearly the same results as to what category is selling well here...

I also agree that these results are somewhat biased.. I'd much rather have data mining capabilities to do my own research before having a top selling items list .. hot categories, now, that would be nice and probably quite simple to update on a once a day basis (what category generates most sales.. )

Thanks for clarifying the issue in a very clear, mature and civilized manner. Kudos to you!

[terry5732]

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