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Subject: [OM] Re: A discovery!
From: "Jez Cunningham" <jez.cunningham@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:24:39 +0100
And a guy in Germany who didn't publish his data but was always quick and
helpful with email questions... I forget his name
Jez


On 1/25/07, om2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <om2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Yep, that took me a while.  It was very useful for about 3 years until the
> digital cameras really tanked the sales of many items.  I used to pull the
> data into Excel every 3 weeks or so (which was the roll-off time then) and
> spend an hour wading through the data to eliminate auctions that didn't
> meet reserve, were mis-identified, broken lenses, or were obviously
> inflated.
>
> There have been two others who have done more comprehensive work that I
> know of:
>
> Garry Reese did the same thing as I did for a year or so, but graded each
> of the items for quality.  I thought that it was a lot of work, and he
> even
> tried to charge for it; but nobody was hungry enough for the data to pay
> for it...mine may have been good enough.  I offered to blend the data and
> host it for both of us, but he wasn't interested.  The quality of the data
> was much better than mine.
>
> There was also a guy in Norway who did a site about 3 years ago with lots
> of data.  He had the process more automated, but the system only ran for 6
> months?  He disappeared soon thereafter.
>
> That's all I know.
>
> Skip
>
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Ali Shah alizookoman@xxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:52:59 -0800 (PST)
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] A discovery!
>
> >From the other Olympus forum:
>
> "Take a look at this if you do not know it:
>
> http://www.skipwill iams.com/ olympus/zuiko_
> ebay_history. htm
>
> Over 6 years old.
> Would there be any interest in a group project putting
> together a newer version? It is a lot of work for
> anyone, guess Skip had a lot of time. I was thinking
> some of us could do one or two lenses and someone
> could enter the data into Excel and someone post it
> (maybe on Skip's site?). He did it for 15 months!
>
> As an example he shows the 600mm lens for about $1300
> (11 sales). One just sold for about $500 on ebay.
> While the 90mm macro has gone up in value.
>
> I would do 5 lenses.
>
> But anyway I think it a good resource to see the value
> of the different versions."
>
>


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