Each week, with data provided by Medved's Auction Counts, AuctionBytes will look back at the previous week's sell-through rate for eBay's top-level categories. Medved's compiles statistics on eBay auctions, monitoring eBay.com pages 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, at 1.5 hour intervals for their auction counts and sell-through statistics.
Sell-through statistics are calculated for every category by taking a sample of the "going, going, gone" items. Medved's also tracks the percentage of eBay auctions which receive bids. This data can be found in graph form at http://www.medved.net/cgi-bin/cal.exe?SIND
eBay Average Sell-Through for Week Ending February 1, 2004
Data collection for auction counts
(http://www.medved.net/cgi-bin/cal.exe?EIND) was started Wednesday, September 1, 1999. Sell-through data collection was started on December 28, 2003. eBay's counts do include some international listings, but not all. The counts are only taken from the US site, but eBay includes some international listings in those counts.
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