I finally set up a stats page, which I have been meaning to do for a while. It shows the distribution of the cost of items bought by the bot and a word cloud of the item descriptions.

I know the images are a bit small, I am going to try and upload bigger versions and put together some more data on the types of items that the bot is buying.

From the cost graph you can see that a good 80% of the items bought are under $1 but that at the far end prices go up considerably. A few of these were caused by a mistake I made, quickly fixed, that allowed some items to slip by with nonzero shipping costs. But most were bought after a few days of not buying anything… the bot had enough of a budget to buy something nice!

The word cloud gives you an idea of what the bot is buying. Some words are not surprising, as every item has free shipping “free” and “shipping” come up quite a bit. Postcards and beads are also common as they are low cost and sold in volume on eBay. “mm” is also used in many craft items and jewelry that the bot buys quite a bit of.

Let me know what you would like to see on the stats page and I will try to pull it together. Email alexander@bobcatinabox.com