Value Guide

The value guide package contains a partial record of an eBay listing excluding, listing promotions, unsuccessful listings, pre-sale data such as quantity available for example, bid history, listing description, demographics and shipping information. Some listing promotions which are currently on eBay are also not currently available in eBay's Market Data such as adding a border to your listing.

Description
Example Data

Pos	Column	Column Type	Description
1	Item_id	DECIMAL 18,0	The unique ebay item id for the transaction
2	Item_title	VARCHAR 255	Listing Title as entered by the seller.
3	Item_subtitle	VARCHAR 255	Listing Subtitle as entered by the seller.
4	Auct_end_date	TIMESTAMP	The end date and time of the auction in the following format "DD-MON-YY HH24:MI:SS"
5	Auct_durtn_days	DECIMAL 18,0	The duration of the auction (end date - start date). Can be different from the value set by the seller in some cases, like BIN.
6	Auct_type_code	DECIMAL 18,0	The auction type code: 1= Chinese (listings w/qty = 1) 2= Dutch (listing w/qty >1) 5= Live Auctions 7= Store Fixed Price 8= Personal offer 9= Pure Fixed Price
7	Lstg_curncy_id	DECIMAL 9,0	Currency Id
8	Leaf_categ_id	DECIMAL 12,0	Ebay category id associated with the item. See lookup file : Categories .
9	Leaf_Categ_id2	DECIMAL 12,0	Secondary category id associated with the item (if any) . See lookup file : Categories .
10	Curnt_price_usd	DECIMAL 15,2	The price at which the bidder or buyer is entitled to purchase the item. (If the reserve price is met)( in USD).
11	Qty_sold	DECIMAL 9,0	Quantity of items sold for a listing. This will always be 1 for Chinese Auctions
12	Bidcount	DECIMAL 9,0	Number of bids the item received
13	Success_yn	VARCHAR 1	Flag to indicate if Auction was successful (Y/N)

Example Row:

Delimiter: Each field is delimited by character 127, the delete character. Hold alt then type 0,1,2,7 in sequence will type the delete character or use "x7F" in most programming languages.
Example File Name: 20060513_site0_meta1_valueguide.data.gz for meta 1 on eBay.com ending on May 13, 2006.