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04-09-2010, 02:14 PM
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With some good software development (parsing auction results web pages, e.g. Google) you could scrape the data that way couldn't you? Would there be any legal problems in doing this?
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04-09-2010, 02:27 PM
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Someone correct me if I am wrong, but there is a fee associated with having your auction house results included in VCP. These auction companies PAY for the right to have their results published, i.e. it is a business expense. If the auction house decides it is not a good business decision to participate, why hold it against them?
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04-09-2010, 05:29 PM
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We charge the auction houses no fee to be included. For them or any auction house to have their results posted should cost basically nothing except a few minutes for a person to program an xml feed.
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04-09-2010, 05:56 PM
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Auction houses do all that work to realize sometimes-record prices selling ball cards, and they don't want to publicize and have a record of their accomplishments for collectors to see?
Golly, that doesn't seem to make sense. Last edited by Rob D.; 04-09-2010 at 05:56 PM.
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04-09-2010, 05:57 PM
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As previously noted, the stated rationale makes absolutely no sense. It seems clear the motive is to avoid comparison of their sales prices with other sales prices.
But that confuses me, because I thought each auction WANTS to show high sales prices to attract consignors? 
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04-09-2010, 05:57 PM
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04-09-2010, 06:35 PM
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Rob- like your Crazy Joe Davola avatar.
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