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Offline Bill_the_Bear

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Re: Spec and Options Popularity
« Reply #80 on: 15 May 2013, 15:30 »
Found another GTD and my first GTI.  Seems like I'm getting somewhere.

How much is 50 euros in our British pounds then? :nerd:

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Re: Spec and Options Popularity
« Reply #81 on: 15 May 2013, 16:07 »
Found another GTD and my first GTI.  Seems like I'm getting somewhere.

How much is 50 euros in our British pounds then? :nerd:

Good work!  It looks to me like the order total was near 60 euros, so that'll be around 51 of our squids.  Rather a lot just to know something that you cannot change the outcome of, but hey, if you have use beyond it, might be worth it.  Maybe folk on here would be willing to donate?! ;)
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Re: Spec and Options Popularity
« Reply #82 on: 15 May 2013, 16:11 »
How much is 50 euros in our British pounds then? :nerd:

Against today's Ex rate of 1.1774 that will be £42.47
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Re: Spec and Options Popularity
« Reply #83 on: 15 May 2013, 16:14 »
Well at present I can see no way of getting the BW information from the website automatically.

So, for £50 ish I can set up a system that will find all the UK GTI and GTD order numbers and bung them in a list.  I could then check them all manually once a week or something, assuming we're talking about at most a few hundreds, and make a note when each one gets a confirmed build week.

I dunno, £50 plus that many orders to check... I can think of better things to do with the time and money, yet this wait is unbearable. :grin:

In other news I modified my script to pull the info regardless of what kind of car it finds, so at least I now know which are VWs most popular models in the UK (Its the Up!, Passat and Golf if anyone is interested).
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Re: Spec and Options Popularity
« Reply #84 on: 15 May 2013, 16:24 »
Well at present I can see no way of getting the BW information from the website automatically.

So, for £50 ish I can set up a system that will find all the UK GTI and GTD order numbers and bung them in a list.  I could then check them all manually once a week or something, assuming we're talking about at most a few hundreds, and make a note when each one gets a confirmed build week.

I dunno, £50 plus that many orders to check... I can think of better things to do with the time and money, yet this wait is unbearable. :grin:

In other news I modified my script to pull the info regardless of what kind of car it finds, so at least I now know which are VWs most popular models in the UK (Its the Up!, Passat and Golf if anyone is interested).

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Re: Spec and Options Popularity
« Reply #85 on: 15 May 2013, 16:32 »
I can see the fun in doing what you have, for the interest of it and to pass the time while you wait!  Blimey, I've messed around with spreadsheets and macros for hours, but I personally don't see £50 worth of value here.  Certainly not when it gives you nothing more than what your dealer can give you with a weekly phone call.
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Re: Spec and Options Popularity
« Reply #86 on: 15 May 2013, 16:43 »
I can see the fun in doing what you have, for the interest of it and to pass the time while you wait!  Blimey, I've messed around with spreadsheets and macros for hours, but I personally don't see £50 worth of value here.  Certainly not when it gives you nothing more than what your dealer can give you with a weekly phone call.

Oh no, it gives you much more than that.  You can compare the everyone's order numbers to their BW (when it is confirmed 4 weeks prior to the build) and also to some basic options including GTI/GTD, doors, colour, transmission, performance pack and dealer (i.e. what place in the dealers allocation it occupies).

This allows some predictions to be made along the lines of which options are causing longer lead times, when orders are likely to be processed based on the order number and dealer allocation, if cars are being built in batches, GTI first? etc etc.... Might even be able to predict which dealers have yet to use their allocations and therefore could let people jump the queue.

Could also tell you other (non GTI specific) things.  For example, Deep Black Pearlescent is a highly popular colour choice across the total VW range (and a thousand other facts like this).

I'm not convinced its worth the effort still.
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Re: Spec and Options Popularity
« Reply #87 on: 15 May 2013, 16:51 »
It's all really interesting stuff, but unless you are going to actually do something with the information that you have beyond your own curiosity (i.e. take requests from people) I'm still not convinced either!
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Re: Spec and Options Popularity
« Reply #88 on: 15 May 2013, 17:02 »
Deep Black Pearl is by far the most popular colour ordered in May.





Warrington has placed a lot of orders in May.


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Re: Spec and Options Popularity
« Reply #89 on: 15 May 2013, 17:10 »
That is excellent Bear. Although why is my dealer not on the chart?!
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