Quote Originally Posted by robertbartsch View Post
Can you please post directions on how to research E-bay auction prices? I've never been able to do this after many attempts.

Thx....
Basically I have an excel spreadsheet.

I search for Altec items that I want to either buy or watch the price of, then add them to my watched items, then once the item ends, put the item(read Altec model number), the price, condition and month/year of sale into the spreadsheet, plus I also add in the ending price at the time in Australian Dollars. You must note the end price on buy it now with best offer, not the listed price.

It is a completely manual system, I usually spend 10 mins or so once a week transferring data in from eBay. Some weeks there may be 4 or 5 entries, other weeks there can be 25, depending on what is on sale. I don't watch everything Altec, nowadays the more unusual stuff I record as you dont get many indications on price, but I will only record say a 515B or 604E pair once a month or so, as the price is fairly consistent (750-1000) and there is always at least two pairs up at once.

I have a specific set of grading terms, and usually note original or reconed, frame size for 515s/416 etc etc.
The trick is to settle on a convention for systems, I use horn/hf driver, or LF driver/horn/hf driver just to allow easy searching.