Gixen.com use of information

[godzilla]

Couldn't Gixen use the information to bid on good deals we find?

[Cupid]

Yes, I suppose Mario could. I've seen absolutely no evidence that he does though.

Personally even if I had access to the same information as Mario about our bidding habits, I'd be very sceptical about using any specifics without quite a lot of further research. Specific bids are even worse than using single eBay auctions as a guide to value.

The overall trend information, I would think would be quite reliable and useful to some (but not myself).
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Mark

[juangrande]

Perhaps a more lucrative idea for Mario would be to collect bidding data on individuals so he could blackmail them. (disclaimer: this is just a random comment by a random poster intended as a random joke. Mario would never even think of doing such a thing; besides, my bidding data is so boring he would quickly lose interest. )
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John

If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
--- Yogi Berra

[Cupid]

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Mark

[Gixen]

[nochkin]

Doing a search on completed items you won makes more sense for me. This way you can see what good deals were really good.

[nochkin]

I meant completed items you won.

[mario]

I remember I found it fun to collect some statistics very early on (e.g. mean price for which item is won is $17 as from what I can recall), but never found an ethical way to take advantage of all this information. If someone has a good (and ethical) idea, please come forward with it.

[nochkin]