What’s Hot On Trade Me 23 January 2008

A pleasant change in the Top Ten Hottest Products On Trade Me this week - only one bike/car makes the list. As for the the other nine slots? See for yourself (we’ve included the headline with each listing so you can see how they tried to attract bidders):
10. New TaylorMade R7 CGBMax 3-SW Graph FreeShiping $1
For [...]

Top Searches From December 2007

What was everyone looking for on Trade Me in the lead-up to Christmas (and in the post-Christmas crush)?
All kinds of everything, but the Top 15 most-searched-for items in Trade Me for December 2007 were:
15 Harley
14 $1 reserve (new)
13 Kayak
12 Trampolines
11 Puppies
10 Louis Vuitton (new) 
9 Wedding
8 PSP
7 Transformers
6 PS3
5 Billabong
4 Unwanted (new)
3 Tents
2 Playboy clothing
1 iPod 

What’s Hot On Trade Me - 16 January 2008

Two-wheeled contrivances are in again.  We’ve come a long way since Pierre Lallement whipped up a velocipede (also known as a boneshaker) in France in 1763.
These days you can choose from utility bicycles, mountain bicycles, racing bicycles, touring bicycles, cruiser bicycles, BMX bicycles, tandems, recumbents, lowriders, tall bikes, fixed gear and folding models. And those [...]

List #6: 2007’s Most Popular Out-Of-Print Books

According to Anirvan Chatterjee, founder of book search engine BookFinder.com, “From 98 to 99 percent of all books ever published are now out-of-print, so they don’t show up in traditional bestseller lists. Without big marketing budgets behind them, these books have been getting buzz the old-fashioned way: reader word of mouth.”
BookFinder.com to the rescue, with [...]

Top Of The Shops, December 2007

The numbers are in and we have a winner!
According to those fine folk at Nielsen//NetRatings and their NZ Market Intelligence research, these were the top 10 websites in the Shopping category for December 2007:

At Number 10, nzpost.co.nz/goshopping, which attracted 9,409 unique browsers across the month, looking for postage and packaging details.
Number 9, mags4gifts.co.nz, Fairfax Magazines’ subscriptions-as-Christmas-gifts [...]

List #5: Google’s 2007 What’s Hot, What’s Not

If you happen to operate a rather popular search engine — the sort of place where kazillions of people stop by every day, say — you could get a pretty good feeling for what’s hot (and what’s not) by noting what people are looking for and tracking how that changes from day to day and [...]

List #4: The Top Movies Of 2007

The lists go on — our continuing mission, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go, yadda yadda, and also to provide guidance for Trade Me buyers and sellers in 2008. This time round, our topic is movies. Lights, cameras, action, quiet on the set, send the striking writers out of the room, it’s [...]