VCP or SMR?

[HRBAKER]

So if ebay will not play ball and allow the non-timed sales to be captured, what is the solution? Is some data better than no data?

[Abravefan11]

Even if Bobby could collect the fixed priced sales with no end time his data would still be just be a fraction of the number of sales for any given card in the market. I use his service and realize that it's not every sale of every card, but in most cases it is enough information to make the service of value to me.

[Bicem]

Originally Posted by HRBAKER

So if ebay will not play ball and allow the non-timed sales to be captured, what is the solution? Is some data better than no data?

yes.

[HRBAKER]

Originally Posted by Bicem

yes.

My thoughts exactly.

[three25hits]

Originally Posted by HRBAKER

So if ebay will not play ball and allow the non-timed sales to be captured, what is the solution? Is some data better than no data?

I say yes IF everyone understands it's partial.

But only with a clear, simple and complete understanding of what's included and what's missing.

People think they are getting VCP but are unknowingly getting VCPS...

[Jay Wolt]

Originally Posted by HRBAKER

So if ebay will not play ball and allow the non-timed sales to be captured, what is the solution? Is some data better than no data?

But why wouldn't eBay "Play ball"?
I can understand if they wanted no information changing hands, like some auction houses.
But they allow the release of data via auctions, so really why do they care
if some lots are sold via fixed prices?

[dstudeba]

I don't think eBay will not necessairly "play ball", but it is a general part of their user agreement. Now the information I have is dated, but when I looked into setting up an automated price retrieval service off of eBay completed items (mainly for my own information before VCP or CardPricer existed) I read their user agreement. From my recollection, eBay owned the data and you were not allowed to use that data or harvest it without using their API to avoid people writing programs to get the information for free. It sounds like the API needs some updating to get all of the information. I am sure this is not a problem for only baseball cards. If VCP were my company I would be on the phone with my account manager finding out when I can access this information through the API and if I couldn't figuring out a workaround so I could do it in a licensed manner.