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Comment by Halicon on February 19, 2011 at 6:13am

Frank, please for future postings, separate your sentences a bit more. Otherwise it becomes a so-called "wall of text" which is quite hard to read

Comment by JAMES IVY on February 18, 2011 at 11:41pm

Thanks for the info sir!

Comment by Frank Evans on October 25, 2009 at 7:12pm

Scott,

On my ride back I began to think of all, I mean - hundreds of possibilities for short and long term, pecific and general topics that could be helpful, insightful, and maybe revealing about some oversight of eBay. My negative experiance gettistemng started and even having Buzz Parker call me complementing me on my storefront and how good it was, became my motivation to data mine in simple ways "fun facts I wanted to know" For instance the gross case listings, how many listings are search engine tricks and not Case knives (since they busted me for it once), at the time Paul Pratt and Moe where dumping 20% of a sample of the first 300 sorted listing at various times into the nightly offerings... It was those type things I was just curious to know. Regardless of my being able to find a copy of my Excel sheet which was fluid from week to week but had some fundamentals I wanted to verify. Fluid is the real oportunity here... I don't need to pull Toenale data for you for a year to find out some interesting facts, but just doit in the same mining format - say monthly for the first 500 in the case subsection and totals in GEC.... whatever just as long as any techniques or brand are disclosed when the next update comes around for a ceartain curiosity of yours, mine, a reader... eBay is a monopoly and is manipulating the Case subcategory now to maintain the look of supperiority..... They could use some integress scrutany. Then as I said market samples of styles, brands, specific knives could make a decent point of interest. Some could be two or three paragraphs then others a chart or two but nothing like a Market Report like you published all at one time... in a year some topics could be compiled to trend even starting now. I'd need your oversight and mentoring to get off the ground and chose some manageable mining topics but I'm willing to try