market price
Web and SaaS
price research for ebay sellers and buyers
SHOW HN2013
87points
61comments
#275of 1,739 in 2013
Top 16%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
7 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 9 critical, out of 31 comments about the project. Thread score -0.10.
Execution: 1 for, 8 againstIdea: 2 for, 1 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful and clean tool with helpful charts
From 3 comments
This is a really nice little app. I mean I have only used ebay only a couple of times but this is really nice, and its something I kinda wish I had at the back of my mind when…
tharshan09 on HNDo not remove the charts. I love the charts. They are simple and obvious, the only feedback I would give is that I would think (not being a huge ebay person) the current charts…
hobs on HNSuggestion: You should be able to exclude certain data items from the calculation, then recalculate (check box for exclude next to the raw data item or something). I just did a…
GotAnyMegadeth on HN
Good idea for buyers and sellers
From 2 comments
Bug report: choosing US, UK or AUS from the country select dropdown causes the form to submit as if you'd typed in the country code as your search term. This is a really killer…
h2s on HNClever idea, it's always time consuming to explain to my father in law that he'd be better off buying something new in the shop or online.
jbrooksuk on HN
Objections
Outliers and unrelated items skew results
From 3 comments
Suggestion: You should be able to exclude certain data items from the calculation, then recalculate (check box for exclude next to the raw data item or something). I just did a…
GotAnyMegadeth on HNLooks awesome! Some outlier elimination would be great (on a search for a graphics card there was skew due to unrelated items)
nos4A2 on HNGood list. I would also suggested eliminating outlying items based on prices. It seems like when there are dozens of items named XXX, there will be several with "hard drive for…
jherrick on HN
Country selection does not switch currency or works incorrectly
From 3 comments
Bug report: choosing US, UK or AUS from the country select dropdown causes the form to submit as if you'd typed in the country code as your search term. This is a really killer…
h2s on HNLooks great and could be a very handy tool but I would of expected prices to show up in £ rather than $ when selecting UK.
makethetick on HNThis is great, very impressive. When searching for an item in the UK the price still shows in dollars.
joshcrowder on HN
Searches with special characters or season numbers break
From 4 comments
The search term "win&win riser" breaks it. Looks like you're not url-escaping the search term? EDIT - also it looks like you're submitting it to ebay badly, the results for…
regularfry on HNseems to break when i put in a specific season, ex: - "dexter season 6" returns only listings where season 1-6 are sold setting an average price at ~$140 - "simpsons season 9"…
therobot24 on HNI tried to search for a speedmaster 3510.50 and it cut off everything after the period. Regex issue?
xanmas on HNSmall bug, searching for "2012/13 Panini Elite Basketball Hobby Box" confuses your URL pattern, only searching for "2012"
ericcholis on HN
Requests
Filter results by condition
From 1 comment
Is there any way to search for a certain condition only? When I search for the iPhone for example, it returns a huge range of prices that include ones that were used and…
xur17 on HN
Price filter slider on results
From 2 comments
That's a good idea. I'm planning to build a pricing filter slider on the results page because it seems most people have a rough idea how much an item is worth. Your problem was…
locksley on HNHmmm, this is difficult to fix because it relies on Ebay's search engine. The only solution I could think of is to add a 'price filter slider' on the results page. This way, you…
locksley on HN
Fees-adjusted net sale price
From 1 comment
Great job, in addition to the comments already made I think it would be more useful if it said what you would make from a sale after ebay and paypal take their cut from the sale.
lilfeetpete on HN
Price history over time graph
From 1 comment
Nice site, but I would like a third graph which shows (e.g.) the average price (for the day) in the y-axis and days in x-axis, so you can estimate how the price has developed…
nawitus on HN
Questions
How the data is gathered
From 1 comment
This is a really nice little app. I mean I have only used ebay only a couple of times but this is really nice, and its something I kinda wish I had at the back of my mind when…
tharshan09 on HN
Whether it complies with eBay terms
From 2 comments
Just curious: this is not in line w/ebay's T&C, or is it? Quite impressive, anyways.
radiospiel on HNWhen I looked at doing the same thing a few years ago, I found it was explicitly ruled out in the conditions attached to the eBay API. There may be a way to get by under the…
fishpi on HN
Alternatives named
TerraPeak
From 1 comment
Are you familiar with TerraPeak? It is a company that provides access to all completed ebay sales. It is a SaaS product and sells for like $20-$50/month. I gather their annual…
jcampbell1 on HN
Priceonomics
From 1 comment
Why not try priceonomics they're pretty good for that. With that said nice app!
espadagroup on HN