Testing New Online Offerings Bot

[ronbo]

I didn't see this one in your list. I keep looking for a ST-302...

Guild Studio 301-ST electric guitar c 1968 - Sunburst original vintage USA double cut starfire | Reverb

Worldwide Shipping!Original vintage 1968 Guild “Studio” 301-ST in gorgeous playing condition! 100% OG Rarity, something of a bastard Gibson Barney kessel/ starfire thinline, with single p90 style guild pickup, and harp tailpiece. The 301-ST is fully hollow, featherweight, full scale, and plays ...

reverb.com

 

[GAD]

I didn't see this one in your list. I keep looking for a ST-302...

Guild Studio 301-ST electric guitar c 1968 - Sunburst original vintage USA double cut starfire | Reverb

Worldwide Shipping!Original vintage 1968 Guild “Studio” 301-ST in gorgeous playing condition! 100% OG Rarity, something of a bastard Gibson Barney kessel/ starfire thinline, with single p90 style guild pickup, and harp tailpiece. The 301-ST is fully hollow, featherweight, full scale, and plays ...

reverb.com

The list is a snapshot in time of the 20 most current Reverb posts at the time the script ran. It is not an all encompassing list, nor does it include anything since the script was run.

That ad was posted a month ago. It’s also from Bonfires, so beware buying from him.

 

[krysh]

Love it!
I‘d prefer: model, year, condition, price, with links in a list

 

[GAD]

Here is an alternate list format using "Model" and "Year" instead of the title:


Latest 20 items with make = 'Guild' on Reverb as of 2024-05-30 at 13:37 Eastern Time

Polara Kim Thayil		Black	Excellent	$799​	Offer
Starfire III	1963	red	Very Good	$5,000​
GUI-OM-120-NAT			Brand New	$720.89​
GUI-BT-258E-NAT			Brand New	$675.75​
D55 NAMM prototype Brazilian	2003	Nitro	Excellent	$5,350​	Offer
F512	2012	Natural	Excellent	$2,750​	Offer
D5 BK	95-97	Black	Good	$1,995​	Offer
HB1	2019	Distressed covers	Good	$76.50​	Offer
Starfire Bass	1967		Good	$1,799​	Offer
Mini Humbucker	1960's	Chrome	Good	$249.95​	Offer
Newark St. Collection S-200 T-Bird	2016 - 2021	Antique Burst	Mint	$1,069.24​	Offer
M-20 CONCERT ACOUSTIC		Mahogany	Very Good	$1,299.99​	Offer
M240E Concert		Natural Satin	B-Stock	$419.99​	Offer
M240E		Vintage Sunburst	B-Stock	$499​	Offer
D240E		Natural Satin	B-Stock	$419.99​	Offer
BT-258E Deluxe 8-String Baritone Jumbo		Natural	B-Stock	$649.99​	Offer
D-20		Natural	Mint	$1,599.99​
CO1	2006		Excellent	$975​	Offer
F212	1963		Good	$3,224.10​	Offer
D-240E LH			Brand New	$439​

Here we get into the common problem of people putting sometimes odd stuff into fields. I like the "Title" used in the previous example better because it's more readable, but it's too damn wordy, especially on mobile. This is more concise, but some sellers put in the actual price-list part number which isn't super helpful.

 

[GAD]

Looking at the link a couple of posts up, the standard link unfurling could be useful... Something like this (done manually by me):

https://reverb.com/item/82540502

F512

2012

Natural

Excellent

$2,750

Offer

 

[GAD]

Sometimes the forum software annoys me...

https://reverb.com/item/82540502-guild-f512-2012-natural-12-string-rosewood-jumbo

Looks like Reverb is preventing the unfurling for reasons unknown. It's always something. That makes unfurling unreliable and therefore not useful for automation.

 

[GAD]

BTW I wanted to add shipping costs, but that's complicated. Here's the JSON section for shipping from one of the ads:

               'shipping': {'free_expedited_shipping': False,
                            'initial_offer_rate': {'carrier_calculated': False,
                                                   'destination_postal_code_needed': False,
                                                   'rate': {'display': {'amount': '114.56',
                                                                        'amount_cents': 11456,
                                                                        'currency': 'USD',
                                                                        'display': '$114.56',
                                                                        'symbol': '$'},
                                                            'original': {'amount': '150.00',
                                                                         'amount_cents': 15000,
                                                                         'currency': 'CAD',
                                                                         'display': 'C$150',
                                                                         'symbol': '$'}},
                                                   'region_code': 'CA',
                                                   'regional': False},
                            'local': False,
                            'rates': [{'carrier_calculated': False,
                                       'destination_postal_code_needed': False,
                                       'rate': {'amount': '114.56',
                                                'amount_cents': 11456,
                                                'currency': 'USD',
                                                'display': '$114.56',
                                                'symbol': '$'},
                                       'region_code': 'CA',
                                       'regional': False},
                                      {'carrier_calculated': False,
                                       'destination_postal_code_needed': False,
                                       'rate': {'amount': '190.94',
                                                'amount_cents': 19094,
                                                'currency': 'USD',
                                                'display': '$190.94',
                                                'symbol': '$'},
                                       'region_code': 'US',
                                       'regional': False}]},

In this case there is shipping for US and Canada, but if a seller puts in various shipping costs for various shipping services they all show up and make assuming which one is accurate problematic.

 

[GAD]

If you haven't seen, I've added a temporary forum called Online Offerings - Test Bed where the GAD-Bot user will be posting Reverb discoveries every hour. It will not be posting the summary listing at this time.

Already you can see some of the problems with having a bot doing this, such as with this example:



The seller decided to load every guitar he could see in the price list so that it would hit all those searches. A human would easily edit that to something Guild Flat-Top Guitars Price List. This bugs me a lot because long thread titles are annoying, but if I limit it to a set number of characters then you get goofy stuff like "1979 Guild Artist Award with D" or some other weird cutoff.

I've been running tests for days and aside from the title length I think it looks pretty good. Comments welcome!

This is still a sort of beta-test so any and all posts may disappear or be deleted in that forum. I may make them all closed by default while testing.

 

[krysh]

I‘d prefer one post every 6 hours with a list. Shipping can anybody search for himself. A post for every new item crashes the use of the „whats new“ tab:

 

[GGJaguar]

the GAD-Bot

The GAD-Bot avatar is great.

 

[fronobulax]

Now that I see it maybe one post per listing is excessive. But a summary with multiple listings has to, IMO, be closed to replies and discussion because to many people don't clarify which guitar they are talking about when they reply. I'll wait and see.

 

[GAD]

I've changed the title of this thread because people have no idea what's going on.

I've removed the test-bed forum from What's New.

 

[davismanLV]

If I wanted to save server space I'd shut down the humor forums.

As I've said before, you should go in there and dump all the stuff from YEARS GONE BY and just leave a minimum amount of recent stuff. So many repeats and such and they're so UNGODY large, who's going to go back and sort through all that old stuff? Not me, for sure, or anyone I'd bet. Save a small recent portion and get rid of all those images!! Not sure how that would affect details like post count and such, but I assume that a static history thing and could be managed. General Humor, Guitar Humor, Signs of the Times and such could be reduced by a huge amount and who cares? Not me for sure. Just my thoughts.

 

[GAD]

As I've said before, you should go in there and dump all the stuff from YEARS GONE BY and just leave a minimum amount of recent stuff. So many repeats and such and they're so UNGODY large, who's going to go back and sort through all that old stuff? Not me, for sure, or anyone I'd bet. Save a small recent portion and get rid of all those images!! Not sure how that would affect details like post count and such, by I assume that a static history thing and could be managed. General Humor, Guitar Humor, Signs of the Times and such could be reduced by a huge amount and who cares? Not me for sure. Just my thoughts.

The system is not designed to do this so I would have to automate it, and really there is no need for it. Image size is maxed by the system and if you send it something too large it will resize it.

40% of attachment disk space is consumed by five users and I’m one of them. My snarky quip about the humor thread aside, the vast number of photos on this site are guitar related.

 

[GAD]

I've turned off the bot.

 

[GGJaguar]

I've turned off the bot.

Test complete, now to analyze the data...

 

[HeyMikey]

What do we want from this bot?

Ideally I think most people want to know “Did something get listed that I need to look at and potentially act quickly on?”
1) Is it a rare or hard to find model?
2) Is the asking price a great or good deal?

Otherwise most of the listings are not urgent. So, do we really need a dump of all Reverb listings including abundant new models? Should it be filtered to show only used items, or exclude the current decade range?

 

[fronobulax]

So, do we really need a dump of all Reverb listings including abundant new models? Should it be filtered to show only used items, or exclude the current decade range?

Good point. As long as we are experimenting, don't post/link to anything offered as New. The cases where the bot perpetuates an error by the seller can be ignored to give someone the thrill of finding something that is New Old Stock from another decade or just a real error by a seller.

 

[casey2048]

I love that this is possible. I also like the human touch of curation on the online offerings page by folks with an eye for what's unusual / particularly nice / worth mentioning. Personally I tend to only post things that pique my particular interest and I assume others do the same. I'd love to be able to continue to dip into the curated offerings but also access the bot listings separately as needed.

 

[Boneman]

With Harp Tail posting things all the time, I don’t know if you even need a bot GAD, he’s got us all covered, lol