Search yield
Where the sold-price searches pay off and where they are fat, so we can learn before changing anything. Read only: nothing on this page changes how we search. Days are Kansas City days. Only you can see this page.
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The words on this page
- Paid search: a sold-price search that used the plan. An earlier answer reused at no cost is counted apart.
- Likely sale: a sale graded a likely match, the same way the member pages grade it.
- Usable lot: a firm price, or 5 or more different likely sales from its searches.
- Fat: a paid search on a lot that never got a usable price. It bought nothing a member can use.
- Thin or firm: under 30 lots behind a group is thin (watch it); 30 or more is firm enough to talk about.
The window
What each paid search brought back
Day by day. A likely sale is what pricing needs; the rest still used the plan.
Retries
When a lot's first search comes back short, a wider search runs. What those retries bought.
The 80/20 test
For each way of grouping the searches: how few groups hold most of the fat, and what skipping the worst groups would have cost. In hindsight: a cut picked on this data does worse on new data.
Look closer
Candidates to study
Not decisions. Firm groups where 2 of 3 paid searches or more were fat, biggest first. A cut is only worth trying when the same group still looks this way on a later week.
Thin, keep an eye on
10 to 29 lots, 3 of 4 paid searches or more fat. Too few lots to judge yet.
Lots priced by a count
Open lots priced at N times one sale. That is right when the sales are single units (two batteries) and wrong when a sale was already the whole bundle (a 24 pack of crayons counted 24 times). Each lot shows the cheapest sales behind its price, so a bundle counted again stands out. Since Oct 11 the pricing counts a bundle once on its own; those lots are listed second, with the reason, so a wrong catch shows too.
Counted once by the count check