Estimating rarity or number of units in circulation by frequency on eBay

[quarkx]

Rudei wrote:
Perhaps you should give it a go? :-)

Membership of sites may give an indication of active users but as for pieces of hardware, I guess that would very much depend on the actual hardware itself.

eg. A1200s - very common
    Blizzard 030s - quite common
    A1000s - very rare
    VideoToasters - rocking horse pooh
    Walker prototype - urban myth :-)

Rude!

In Canada is is quite A Different story, almost opposite.
A1200 -Rare
A500- very common
A500+ Good luck
A600 even rarer than a A1200
A2000 Very common
A1000 almost as common as A500 but slowing down in recent months.
Video toasters- common,
A3000 almost rare, but they do pop up from time to time
A4000 more common than the 3's

I think that IF seller's in the US, would even admit Canada is here, we would have much more at our disposal, but I would guess only about 1 in 10 US sellers will ship to Canada or at lease specify they will on Ebay.

[quarkx]

KThunder wrote:
@quarkx
"You do know that Canada is a separate country,right?"

Oh, boy, that is VERY debatable- which I really don't want to open that topic. My point is there is so many seller from the US (about 40 to 60%) that have no idea how to make their Auction appear on (for example )e-bay .ca. Most are willing to ship to Canada, but they have to be asked.
Now there also is a small number that will ship worldwide, but State in the auction "I WILL NOT SHIP ELECTRONICS TO CANADA"
I fill out customs forms and ship worldwide on a weekly basis, custom forms take less than 2 minutes to fill out, but a lot of seller state it is not worth the hassel.