This was my weekend project. I made it after being frustrated at not knowing what a fair price for an iphone 5 would be on eBay. I posted this a month ago but wasn't ready for HN traffic. Learnt about load testing the hard way and have optimized it since. So, here it is again.<p>Feel free delve into any questions.
The search term "win&win riser" breaks it. Looks like you're not url-escaping the search term?<p>EDIT - also it looks like you're submitting it to ebay badly, the results for "win&win" are same as for "win".
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 using ebay.<p>Can you give a little details on how it works? Is it scraped data? etc.<p>I know this is targeted at a person who wants to sell items on ebay, but I am a buyer and I find this still quite useful. Not sure how up to date the data is but the graphs are an amazing feature! Makes so much sense.
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.<p>This is a really killer piece of kit though. I'm very impressed. It's something I think many of us have idly imagined when struggling to determine a good starting price for a new eBay auction.
Very neat site. I think overtime, you should try to find more visually pleasing ways of presenting the data, but for now it's not a deal breaker.<p>I have a suggestion: Perhaps you could build some kind of e-mail alert system that lets me know when there's an e-bay "Buy Now" item available within a user specified price range. You could also let me know if there an item I want is still within a certain price range hours before the bid closes.<p>EDIT: Typos.
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 search for "fender aerodyne bass guitar" and the lowest price that came up was $249.99, though that turned out to be only the neck of a bass "2007 Fender Aerodyne JAZZ BASS NECK Tuners Bass Guitar Black Headstock".
Dude, put a contact link on your site so people can give feedback. Also, once someone does a search, you should pass the search query into the search box so they can make modifications without retyping the whole thing.
And you're on lifehacker : <a href="http://lifehacker.com/5986983/market-price-calculates-what-youll-get-for-an-item-on-ebay" rel="nofollow">http://lifehacker.com/5986983/market-price-calculates-what-y...</a><p>Congratulations!
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 refurbished.<p>Otherwise, it looks like a great site!
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 over the last few weeks.
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.
seems to break when i put in a specific season, ex:<p>- "dexter season 6" returns only listings where season 1-6 are sold setting an average price at ~$140
- "simpsons season 9" returns listings where multiple seasons including season 9 are sold setting the an average price at ~$150<p>In each case the 'raw data' had more than one season in it