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Old timers know Ebay isn’t as cheap as it once was for many things. In some instances you can even pay more for items you could source cheaper (and newer online).

My idea is to build a handy tool to address this problem. Its a price comparison engine with a difference, called, Cheapr At Ebay? Basically it searches backwards at Ebay, looking for finished items or Buy It Now items. It searches for the finishing price on the completed items (finds an average), then searches other online comparison sites to see if stuff really is cheaper at ebay.

You can also opt to do it by category, so if you want to find a rare record, it will look at Ebay completed and current, Gemm, Opal, Amazon Sellers, Etc. To see if its worth bidding up for something or going to an alternative online supplier.

It will also allow you to compare Buy It Now auctions for new products with real world prices via searches like Kelkoo, Froogle or Price Runner. Given the affiliate opportunities this could provide, it could be a potentially lucrative scheme - using the Ebay API and some other search APIs under one hood to determine if the item you think you’ll get cheaper at Ebay really will be cheaper. If you turn this into a multimillion earning scheme, please remember where you got it

Contributed by David Lloyd

(this would make a nice Greasemonkey script, like BookBurro).

I would really like to have a large display screen, maybe just an LCD scrolling banner, that I could mount on my wall which shows the title, artist, and album of the music that I am listening to. I was thinking that it could hook up to an ipod dock or directly to a computer. Since I have more music than I can keep track of, it would be nice to know what is playing at a glance from across the room.

A related (and maybe cheaper to make) idea would be to have the same information scrolling very large across a computer screen as a screensaver linked with the music program. I haven’t seen one of these yet, and it does not seem like it would be that hard to make.

Someone please do this!

Contributed by Rebecca Maya Lessem

(any chance of a “been done” on the screensaver angle? I couldn’t find one)

In case you’ve been living under a stone, Greasemonkey is a great script interpreting Firefox plugin that enables dynamic redesign of web page content, often integrating content from several sites.

There are tons of user scripts for specific sites, and some for general sites.

But what I’d really like is a script about scripts. When I go to a site that is in the list of site specific user scripts, it’d be great if a little icon would tell me there are scripts I might like, that I can expand, to see the descriptions, and provides an “install” button for each.

Contributed by Rob Smith