It WOULD be a great historical database if they kept more than 30-60
days of data available! Somewhere they have a data warehouse full of
great stuff but it's not available. Of course the pictures wouldn't be
available for the past auctions but descriptions and prices realized
would be a great resource. BIG database though ...what are they up to
these days
124 million auctions or so???
Craig
Sellam Ismail wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Eric Dittman wrote:
The frequent downtimes are a pain, but the
biggest pain is that almost
all the sellers use eBay because everyone uses eBay. Because of that,
if you are looking for some odd part and nobody you can ask has the
part, eBay is about your only option.
I'll be the first to admit that I am a hypocrite, but I would actually
hate to see the online auction service market get fractured. The one good
thing that you can rely on with eBay is that you pretty much know if
you're after something obscure, you have a good chance of finding it on
eBay.
eBay is similar to a big historical database.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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