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posted on July 3, 2002 10:16:36 PM new
7/4
214 items listed average ( range 93- 511 )
17 average FB rating ( range 0 - 44 )
11 months on BV ( range 4-18 )
2 members with a Premium Membership
5 members USA based ( 1 Austria )
42 featured sellers and only 9 have had a paid membership
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posted on July 4, 2002 10:23:22 PM new
7/5
510 items listed average ( range 63- 2011 )
48 average FB rating ( range 13 - 112 )
11 months on BV ( range 4-18 )
2 members with a Premium Membership
6 members USA based
48 featured sellers and 11 have had a paid membership
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posted on July 5, 2002 10:53:16 PM new
7/6
668 items listed average ( range 52- 1505 )
74 average FB rating ( range 18 - 127 )
16 months on BV ( range 4-18 )
3 members with a Premium Membership
4 members USA based ( 1 blank - 1 Germany )
54 featured sellers and 14 have had a paid membership
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posted on July 6, 2002 10:38:38 PM new
7/7
180 items listed average ( range 53- 621 )
42 average FB rating ( range 0 - 140 )
12 months on BV ( range 4-18 )
2 members with a Premium Membership
5 members USA based ( 1 united Kingdom )
60 featured sellers and 16 have had a paid membership
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caffeitalia
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posted on July 6, 2002 10:41:11 PM new
Again,
Give us some stats that actually mean something like in what is listed, sales and if any, for how much.
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posted on July 8, 2002 07:54:35 AM new
7/8
1,556 items listed average ( range 112 - 5,255 )
69 average FB rating ( range 0 - 181 )
16 months on BV ( range 11 - 18 )
1 member with a Premium Membership
3 members USA based ( 1 Canada & 2 blank )
66 featured sellers and 17 have had a paid membership ( 26% pay something more than $5/yr)
caffeitalia, I feel your pain. I'm trying to figure out a way to see the prices of recently closed auctions on BV. The search engine is a real hindrance with it's lack of a description search. I'm open for suggestions. Since the title search accepts 75 characters it has a quasi-description search quality. How about certain title search words and a closed item search of them? Such as book. I did that and a look at all 2,000 entries shows a huge amount of successfully closed auctions. Of course many were low value auctions because the word book is used to describe book value in sportscards but there were a lot of other items in the $3 - $6 range. After that one search I’d say that there are thousand and maybe tens of thousands of successful closed auctions on BV each month but the average closing price is only about $2.50 on average or less. A question to ask may be “how do the site owners make a profit on tens of thousands of successful auctions per month that only average $2.50?” A listing fee is totally out of the question. That leaves a small FVF possibility or continues with the present revenue model as choices. To avoid the certain ‘what happened to the no fees promise’ clamor if a small FVF were instituted Bryan could say that Ed sold the site to him and it was Ed’s pledge and not his and the only other choice would be to cease operations. Either way it looks like BV will have a tough job making money on items that average only $2.50 apiece.
Here's a weird auction I found:
http://www.bidville.com/listings/details/index_asp.asp?i=5303408
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posted on July 9, 2002 08:44:26 AM new
7/9
712 items listed average ( range 130 - 2,555 )
41 average FB rating ( range 10 - 123 )
17 months on BV ( range 15 - 18 )
1 member with a Premium Membership
4 members USA based ( 1 Canada & 1 blank )
72 featured sellers and 18 have had a paid membership
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posted on July 9, 2002 11:36:53 PM new
7/10
1803 items listed average ( range 164 - 4,325 )
76 average FB rating ( range 15 - 173 )
16 months on BV ( range 9 - 18 )
3 member with a Premium Membership
5 members USA based ( 1 blank )
78 featured sellers and 21 have had a paid membership
some observational notes:
There seems to be a lot of international sellers and especially Canadian. Perhaps as high as 8%. I have never seen an international seller with a premium membership. I can see why the Canadians are at BV ( and other 3rd tier sites ) as Yahoo-Canada is not a busy site ( Perhaps Yahoo should shutter that foreign site s well ).
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posted on July 11, 2002 06:53:59 AM new
7/11
2226 items listed average ( range 189 - 4,695 )
81 average FB rating ( range 21 - 156 )
17 months on BV ( range 12 - 18 )
1 member with a Premium Membership
4 members USA based ( 1 Sweden & 1 blank )
84 featured sellers and 22 have had a paid membership
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posted on July 11, 2002 10:18:37 PM new
7/12
661 items listed average ( range 58 - 3,391 )
62 average FB rating ( range 1 - 194 )
13months on BV ( range 2 - 18 )
1 member with a Premium Membership
5 members USA based ( 1 Canada )
90 featured sellers and 23 have had a paid membership
Note: the lone paid membership featured seller is a Canadian, the first foreign seller with a paid membership that I've encountered.
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posted on July 12, 2002 10:03:30 PM new
7/13
3,292 items listed average ( range 58 - 15,283 )
89 average FB rating ( range 15 - 192 )
18 months on BV ( range 2 - 18 )
2 members with a Premium Membership
5 members USA based ( 1 blank )
96 featured sellers and 25 have had a paid membership
ruafroggy has an incredible 15,283 BV auctions! ( may be all hockey cards )
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posted on July 13, 2002 07:58:29 AM new
Bids,
I do believe you have a prejudice showing in your stats. why note the US members seperate and all other countries noted in parentheses?
Are you trying to say that the ratio of US to non US sellers makes for a negative against BV? (I think you must, because I doubt you would do anything for a positive reason.)
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posted on July 13, 2002 12:13:56 PM new
I think you think too much Hap  Since I was going to make a featured seller's index anyway, I was curious about the large number of Canadian sellers I encountered when I tried to determine the precentage of BV sellers that had premium memberships earlier this year. That was when I said there was only 10% with memberships and 'BV Seller' or whoever the disgruntled BVer was said it was 50%.
It is very odd that the random BV sellers that BV selects daily average only 25% paying for a premium membership. The only criteria for being a featured BV sellers is to be verified and have a minimum of 50 auctions. Does that 50 auctions requirement mean a much lower rate than all verified sellers in general? Now I doubt about the 50% figure of all BV sellers that have a premium membership. I now think that figure is no more than 35%.
About the non-USA sellers, that is pure curiosity on my part. The same ratio of USA to non-USA sellers is probably present at the other third tier sites ( actually all sites except eBay should now be called secondary sites as Yahoo is down to near the 250,000 listing mark ). I do think the foreign sellers may indirectly hurt BV because all but one out of at least 40 foreign sellers that I have encountered in my searches do not have a premium membership and those membership fees are a prime source of BV income. If the percentage of foreign sellers is as high as 5& to 8% then that is a drag on BV's subscription revenue and the USA sellers may be subsidizing those foreign sellers.
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posted on July 13, 2002 09:55:08 PM new
7/14
293 items listed average ( range 72 - 634 )
43 average FB rating ( range 0 - 123 )
14 months on BV ( range 4 - 18 )
3 members with a Premium Membership
5 members USA based ( 1 Canada )
102 featured sellers and 28 have had a paid membership
Of the first 102 featured sellers in the index 14 have left the location box empty. That leaves 88 sellers that stated their location, of that 5 were Canadain and 5 were other nation sellers ( Argentina, Austria, Germany, Sweden, and The United Kingdom )
10 out of 88 were non USA sellers.
[ edited by bidsbids on Jul 13, 2002 10:01 PM ]
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posted on July 15, 2002 12:27:13 AM new
7/15
1427 items listed average ( range 98 - 5124 )
61 average FB rating ( range 3 - 210 )
14 months on BV ( range 2 - 18 )
2 members with a Premium Membership
5 members USA based ( 1 Canada )
108 featured sellers and 30 have had a paid membership
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posted on July 15, 2002 09:46:07 PM new
7/16
1004 items listed average ( range 190 - 2315 )
53 average FB rating ( range 21 - 93 )
18 months on BV ( range 17 - 18 )
1 member with a Premium Membership
4 members USA based ( 1 blank & 1 Canada )
114 featured sellers and 31 have had a paid membership
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posted on July 16, 2002 11:55:27 PM new
7/17
605 items listed average ( range 82 - 1506 )
50 average FB rating ( range 5 - 126 )
17 months on BV ( range 16 - 19 )
2 members with a Premium Membership
5 members USA based ( 1 blank )
120 featured sellers and 33 have had a paid membership
note: One of the featured sellers has a "
Member Since - December 9, 2000" which makes her one of the very first BV sellers. This member also pays BV $120/year for a membership.
According to this net article:
http://www.auctionbytes.com/pages/abn/y01/m07/i12/s01
NoBidding, Inc. opened AuXpal. com on December 6, 2000
AuxPal/BV was 3 days old when she joined.
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posted on July 17, 2002 10:09:39 PM new
7/18
262 items listed average ( range 95 - 679 )
64 average FB rating ( range 10 - 165 )
18 months on BV ( range 16 - 19 )
3 members with a Premium Membership
5 members USA based ( 1 blank )
126 featured sellers and 36 have had a paid membership
note: One of the featured sellers has a "
Member Since - December 6, 2000" which makes this seller one of the very first BV sellers.
According to this net article:
http://www.auctionbytes.com/pages/abn/y01/m07/i12/s01
NoBidding, Inc. opened AuXpal. com on December 6, 2000
AuxPal/BV was doing it's first day of business when the seller joined.
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posted on July 18, 2002 11:29:39 PM new
7/19
433 items listed average ( range 79 - 960 )
59 average FB rating ( range 11 - 159 )
18 months on BV ( range 16 - 18 )
1 member with a Premium Membership
5 members USA based ( 1 blank )
132 featured sellers and 37 have had a paid membership
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posted on July 19, 2002 09:50:20 PM new
7/20
1287 items listed average ( range 63 - 5965 )
35 average FB rating ( range 0 - 102 )
12 months on BV ( range 3 - 18 )
1 member with a Premium Membership
6 members USA based
138 featured sellers and 38 have had a paid membership
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posted on July 20, 2002 09:59:10 PM new
7/21
332 items listed average ( range 82 - 1250 )
69 average FB rating ( range 1 - 131 )
15 months on BV ( range 2 - 18 )
3 members with a Premium Membership
5 members USA based ( 1 blank )
144 featured sellers and 41 have had a paid membership
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posted on July 21, 2002 09:49:48 PM new
7/22
829 items listed average ( range 87 - 2267 )
45 average FB rating ( range 20 - 95 )
16 months on BV ( range 14 - 18 )
3 members with a Premium Membership
5 members USA based ( 1 Canada )
150 featured sellers and 44 have had a paid membership
Note: The Canadian member had a paid membership
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posted on July 22, 2002 10:04:21 PM new
7/23
566 items listed average ( range 75 - 2134 )
31 average FB rating ( range 3 - 69 )
15 months on BV ( range 8 - 18 )
2 members with a Premium Membership
5 members USA based ( 1 Canada )
156 featured sellers and 46 have had a paid membership
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posted on July 23, 2002 10:26:59 PM new
7/24
1106 items listed average ( range 214 - 2662 )
72 average FB rating ( range 10 - 216 )
16 months on BV ( range 12 - 18 )
1 member with a Premium Membership
5 members USA based ( 1 Canada )
162 featured sellers and 47 have had a paid membership
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posted on July 24, 2002 10:08:20 PM new
7/25
628 items listed average ( range 61 - 2866 )
39 average FB rating ( range 6 - 114 )
16 months on BV ( range 12 - 18 )
2 members with a Premium Membership
5 members USA based ( 1 Canada )
168 featured sellers and 49 have had a paid membership
Note: The Canadian seller has this:
Location - In Lovely Mosa Township
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posted on July 25, 2002 10:58:16 PM new
7/26
522 items listed average ( range 70 - 1888 )
57 average FB rating ( range 13 - 113 )
16 months on BV ( range 11 - 18 )
1 member with a Premium Membership
5 members USA based ( 1 Canada )
174 featured sellers and 50 have had a paid membership
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posted on July 27, 2002 09:30:17 AM new
7/27
1,336 items listed average ( range 57 - 4,140 )
60 average FB rating ( range 1 - 133 )
15 months on BV ( range 6 - 18 )
1 member with a Premium Membership
6 members USA based
180 featured sellers and 51 have had a paid membership ( 28.33% )
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posted on July 27, 2002 11:46:57 PM new
7/28
1,776 items listed average ( range 115 - 5,347 )
95 average FB rating ( range 3 - 361 )
16 months on BV ( range 6 - 18 )
2 members with a Premium Membership
5 members USA based ( 1 Australia )
186 featured sellers and 53 have had a paid membership
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posted on July 29, 2002 12:14:06 AM new
7/29
669 items listed average ( range 65 - 1,924 )
38 average FB rating ( range 14 - 62 )
17 months on BV ( range 12 - 18 )
3 members with a Premium Membership
6 members USA based
192 featured sellers and 56 have had a paid membership
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posted on July 29, 2002 11:13:01 PM new
7/30
445 items listed average ( range 99 - 1,848 )
53 average FB rating ( range 4 - 277 )
15 months on BV ( range 7 - 18 )
2 members with a Premium Membership
5 members USA based ( 1 Canada )
198 featured sellers and 58 have had a paid membership
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