Skip,
I echo the groups sentiments on how valuable and useful this data has been
for me. The number of replies to this message should be your answer if you
were ever wondering if it was worth the effort!
Thanks!
Mike V. <><
----- Original Message -----
From: "Skip Williams" <skipwilliamsom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 4:57 PM
Subject: [OM] Updated Zuiko Lens Data
> Well, at last I've updated my page on the Zuiko Lens Ebay auctions at
>
> http://www.skipwilliams.com/olympus/olympus_top.htm
>
> The auction data now contains 2965 auctions, up from about 1300 before.
>
> You can read the disclaimers on the page, but basically I'm not going to
> apologize for the incompleteness of the data. Don't use it for
> comprehensive trend analysis. The data isn't good enough for that. It
> doesn't contain condition, black/silvernose, MC/SC, NIB, etc. So its
caveat
> emptor on its use.
>
> As I slogged through the data, I ignored a lot of the auctions over the
past
> year because I didn't really want (for example) another 100 auctions for
> 28/3.5's or 50/1.8's. It takes quite a bit of time to go through the
> auction data and clean it up, deleting auctions that aren't for one lens
> alone verifying that the auction descriptions are correct, etc..
>
> But I think it's served it's purpose for many of us, and the updated
market
> data should help in the future.
>
> The graphs are a bit different, and better I think.
>
> Also, I could use a few more data points on the big white lenses and the
> rarer stuff like the 1000/11, 24 Shift, or 8mm/2.8. If anyone has private
> sale data or auctions that I missed, please email me with details and I'll
> incorporate it into another, terse update.
>
> I'll probably keep track of some of those big and rare lenses going
forward,
> and some of the rarer Pen F lenses, but otherwise there won't be anymore
> wholesale updates.
>
> Skip
>
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