Art, thanks for all you work in tracking these prices. It is very valuable when you are in the market for something to have some solid data to go by. Is it possible to add one column to the end of each monthly chart? If you could add the average price of your total data for each lighthouse to the monthly chart it would be useful without downloading the updated spreadsheet each month. Thanks again.
PS I was lucky enough to win that $127.50 Cape Neddick and it came broken in the mail!
Jim
Johnson

Hey JJ, ...Broken in the mail? That's sad...

I've been very lucky with pieces that have come through the mail. The only thing I ever received that broke was the Anchor Bay Purse Seiner, Tori Dawn. It is my belief this happend because of poor packing procedures. Needless to say, the seller graciously gave me a credit on my Mastercard when I shipped the remains back to South Carolina. Nothing ventured...nothing gained...

Bob

Oh no JJ... I'm so sorry to hear that, and such a great deal on Cape Neddick too. I do hope it was properly insured. Insurance or not though, it's going to be hard to come across another deal like that. I'll keep a lookout for you!

Tim - Keeping the flame lit...

Great find on a great piece, JJ. I'm so sorry about the breakage.

The average really doesn't change that much from month to month on most pieces, so I'm not sure it would be worth the extra effort to calculate and add that extra column every month. However, there are months when significant anomolies occur, so I'll grant that using the current month's average isn't always the best guage. Since this is not the first time that this has been suggested, I am considering doing something about it, but I probably won't do it monthly.

My current thought is to do a year-end summary once the December data are in. Then I will add the last year's average for each piece to all future charts for comparison. That will be a static column, month-to-month. I may update it annually, semi-annually or maybe even quarterly (if I feel ambitious or if significant market changes are apparent), but not monthly.

Again, my intent here never was to set prices on individual pieces so much as to take the pulse of the market overall.

Thanks for the suggestion.

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This is a Q about the ebay ticker sheet I don't know if this is Art's or somebody else's but what does "Fog signal factor & argand factor mean
Thanks
Larry

That's not the Market Ticker spreadsheet, Larry. That one is Tim's baby. I'll defer to him for explanation.

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Direct from Tim's spreadsheet:

c) The Fog Signal Value Factor applies to Retired Pieces and equals 'Days on Market at Retirement minus Days Since Retirement'.
d) The Argand Wick Factor applies to Retired Pieces and factors in their Edition Size. It equals The Fog Signal Value Factor divided by Edition Size times 1000.

Jim
Johnson

Thanks for the imfo I'm still learning although I think I am a truly "WACKO" for I want to get more & more of these great pieces I have a lot to learn. for I started in April or I should say the wife started it by getting 99 xmass piece for my birthday I now have 35 and at least 5 more to get by end of year

Sorry for the delay in posting these data. I know you've all been checking here daily to see if I've updated yet (tic). Heck, with Christmas right around the corner, I know that no one has anything else to do.

It's a poor excuse, I know, but I've been bedridden with the flu for the last week and a half. Feeling well enought this morning to drag my carcass to the PC, I made this my first priority.

NOV, 2000 Successful eBay Auctions on Selected HL Models
Model	Piece Name	Search Name	# auctions	avg price	avg # bids	low	high
HL103	West Quoddy Head	Quoddy	3	$136.67	11.3	$112.50	$150.00
HL108	Burrows Island	Burrows	0
HL113	Ft. Niagara	(Orv)	3	$113.33	10.3	$100.00	$137.50
HL115	St. George's Reef	(Orv)	1	$53.46	13.0	$53.46	$53.46
HL116	Castle Hill	(Orv)	3	$77.56	4.7	$57.68	$95.00
HL117	Boston Harbor	Boston	2	$150.84	5.0	$125.00	$176.67
HL118	Old Mackinac	Mackinac	2	$109.53	8.5	$91.00	$128.05
HL122	Buffalo	(Orv)	0
HL124	Split Rock	Split Rock	5	$78.40	11.4	$45.99	$100.00
HL126	Nauset Beach	Nauset	2	$160.00	1.0	$160.00	$160.00
HL128	SE Block Island	(Orv)	1	$400.00	11.0	$400.00	$400.00
HL135	Ocracoke Island	Ocracoke	4	$365.02	17.3	$355.00	$390.09
HL138	St. Augustine	Augustine	0
HL139	Barnegat	Barnegat	2	$335.00	6.5	$325.00	$345.00
HL140	Diamond Head	Diamond Head	1	$102.50	7.0	$102.50	$102.50
HL141	Cape Neddick	Neddick	2	$155.75	4.0	$155.50	$155.99
HL142	Holland	Holland	3	$168.51	8.3	$150.00	$200.50
HL143	Montauk Point	Montauk	4	$135.06	8.3	$112.50	$152.50
HL145	Assateague Mold 2	Assateague	4	$138.50	8.0	$85.00	$227.50
HL151	Jupiter Inlet	(Orv)	1	$205.01	9.0	$205.01	$205.01
HL156	Point Arena	Arena	3	$90.67	4.7	$72.02	$100.00
HL158	Currituck	Currituck	6	$104.92	10.0	$78.00	$132.50
HL163	Cape Canaveral	(Orv)	5	$100.98	12.8	$80.00	$145.00
HL168	Cape May	Cape May	3	$72.68	14.0	$64.01	$79.99
HL175	Cape Lookout	Lookout	4	$73.00	3.5	$49.99	$91.00
HL177	Alcatraz Island	(Orv)	5	$76.80	2.8	$66.00	$91.00
HL181	Thomas Point	Thomas	2	$125.76	6.0	$114.00	$137.51
HL189, HL190	Morris Island, Then & Now Set	Morris	7	$97.64	3.7	$85.00	$105.00
HL194	Sanibel Island	Sanibel	5	$106.60	1.8	$79.00	$125.00
HL196	Cape Henry	Henry	6	$64.34	4.3	$56.01	$76.00
HL209	Cape Florida	Cape Florida	1	$56.00	3.0	$56.00	$56.00
HL225	Hillsboro Inlet	Hillsboro	4	$107.50	8.3	$75.01	$175.00
HL501	Point Fermin	Fermin	2	$82.50	6.0	$76.00	$89.00
HL502	Stonington Harbor	(Orv)	2	$143.25	12.0	$119.00	$167.50
HL503	Spyglass Set	(Orv)	2	$32.75	1.5	$20.50	$45.00
HL602	Sunken Rock	Sunken Rock	6	$38.00	4.2	$30.00	$51.00
HL603	Edgartown	Edgartown	2	$60.00	9.0	$41.00	$79.00
HL700	Big Bay Point	Big Bay	6	$218.84	11.0	$199.01	$240.50
HL701	Colchester Reef	Colchester	8	$57.50	1.1	$45.00	$75.00
HL704	White Shoal	White Shoal	3	$64.17	2.3	$50.00	$71.51

Last Updated on 11/30/00
By Art Seaman & Orv, © 2000

Merry Christmas,

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