Last night I was messing around with my Trademe parser, and almost by accident managed to create something useful. By parsing data on past auctions using the ‘advanced’ search, I was able to compute the average closing price for a particular type of item (dependent on how useful the name is, of course). This is quite neat, as I can now filter on items below the average price – ie: items that are cheaper than average. Combined with a bit of CSS, this was quite easy to turn into a simple firstin.co.nz / 1day.co.nz clone, that automatically shows ‘good’ (defined as at least 10% below the average price) buy-now deals in various Trademe categories.
Because I know that people don’t read the text in these posts and instead only look at the images I embed, here’s an image of what the site looks like at the time of writing:
Click on the picture or here to go to the actual site. Despite the name up the top, it’s not hosted on a standalone domain yet. That site actually turned out to be unavailable, so I’m attempting to think of a better name. Suggestions welcome 
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