Updated Swoopo Manual

Posted by Matthew on December 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

Today I released an updated version of the Swoopo Manual. This is now version 1.7.

Included in this update is an all-new data set of over 30,000 analyzed auctions. And more importantly, we slice and dice that data to reveal interesting trends about how the best Swoopo bidders bid…and how they win.

Also included in this update is an item by item savings breakdown. In the previous versions I grouped items together into categories (such as TVs or Cameras). But readers of Swoopers dot org requested item breakdowns instead…and I listened!

Finally, the biggest change:

We took our huge data set and created an hour-by-hour matrix for the entire week. This shows the best hours to bid for every single day of the week. We included this in an all-new Excel download which you can grab on the “Stats” page.

Thanks as always for reading…and keep kickin’ tail on Swoopo!

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Swoopo Auction Data: Old News?

Posted by Matthew on November 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

If you’re relying on reems of Excel data as the sole source of your Swoopo auction data, you’re making a big mistake. There are more important things than stale historical data from 30 days ago or 3 months ago. Yesterday I explained why Swoopo skills are better than Swoopo stats. Today I’d like to share why without real-time data…you’re still bidding blind.

Real Time is Real Important

Swoopo Excel sheets have a purpose: They let you see which auctions are usually better for bidding. They reveal, for example, that bids for bids are usually a losers game. This is helpful for new Swoopo bidders because you can stay away from bids for bids.

But oddly enough, I recommend you participate in bids for bids if you’d like to start small and “trade your way” up to a laptop or digital camera. That’s confusing, huh?

The reason I can confidently recommend this strategy is because I see it work for pros time and time again. The difference, of course, is that they aren’t relying on Excel sheets. They are also using advanced bidding techniques from the Swoopo Manual. They are also using…

Swoopo Analytics is Real-Time

There’s only been one other person in the “Swoopo industry” who’ve I’ve worked with on a regular basis. His name is Jason and he developed Swoopo Analytics. And what it does is provide real-time analysis on every Swoopo auction right on the same page. You’d hardly even notice you were using it if you weren’t winning all the time :)

Swoopo Analytics is much more powerful than Excel sheets because it reveals deep data about the most important Swoopo auction: the one you’re bidding on!

Swoopo Analytics gives you access to:

  • Who’s bidding in an auction
  • How many times every single bidder has won before
  • The win/loss history of every bidder on Swoopo
  • The average sales prices for that item in the past
  • Much, much more

I joined forces with Jason and Swoopo Analytics a couple months back and the program is now offered only to buyers of the Swoopo Manual. If you want to learn more, you can get access here:

Swoopo Strategy | Swoopo Manual + Swoopo Analytics

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Swoopo Stats & Swoopo Skills

Posted by Matthew on November 24, 2009 · 3 Comments 

In my last post, I explained why Swoopo data isn’t as useful as some gurus would lead you to believe. At least not giant Excel spreadsheets with rows and rows of unprocessed data. And I said there were two reasons for that:

  1. Knowing when isn’t knowing how
  2. Auction data that isn’t real time isn’t real useful

Today I’m going to explain the first of these two reason using a little parable.

The New Fishing Hole

Your neighbor knocks on the door at the crack of dawn one spring and tells you he found a great fishing hole on your local lake. It’s in a little cove on the east side, well shaded and has plenty of cracks and crevices that fish just love (at least the big fish you’re after).

Your neighbor has spent years on the lake finding the absolute best place to fish and thinks he’s found it this time. He also knows from years of practice that the best time to fish is 5am to 7am…right as the sun is coming up. That’s why he’s standing in your doorway so early on a weekend morning.

You haven’t fished in years. Your pole is rusty, your lures are rusty and worst of all…your technique is rusty. You haven’t practiced fishing other than playing Bass Hunter at the pub. But your neighbor’s done the hard work and found the fishing hole for you, so you’re confident you’ll land one and make the trip worthwhile.

Excited, you head out the door with your neighbor and you drive to the lake, hop in his fishing boat and troll out to the cove. You both cast your lines into the water and wait.

Soon, your neighbor and you both have a bite on your line. You get excited and jerk your pole immediately. Unfortunately, the fish hasn’t fully taken the bait yet…and it swims away. You curse to the sky and begin preparing your line for another cast.

Your neighbor, on the other hand, has done this thousands of times. He waits patiently after the bite and 30 seconds later, he’s confident the fish is on the line. He jerks the pole just hard enough to ensare the fish and begins reeling slowly and steadily. In  5 minutes flat, he’s holding a beauty of a big-mouthed bass triumphantly over his head as you snap a picture for the local paper.

The Moral?

Knowing the best time and place isn’t enough…you need to have skills. The Swoopo Manual was written with an emphasis on the actual techniques used by Swoopo pros to win big. Only after you’ve read and understood these techniques does the data do any good.

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