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identify7It seems to me that card availability (on eBay) is cyclical. By that I mean that I often seek a card for months without finding any examples, then three show up in a two week interval.
Recently a Board poster provided a database which contains e-card listings on eBay from early 2003 through the first quarter of 2004. An initial assessment of this listing is summarized below. No adjustment for re-listed cards nor frequency of appearance of individual cards has been made to the summary shown.
Based on an eBay sampling of e90-e107 cards listed for sale between early ’03 and ’04, comprizing almost 3000 offerings, the most common e-card is the e90-1, by a wide margin. Many sets represent less than five percent of the total e-cards available. Including:
e99 + e100 – the rarest
e90-2, e104 & e107 – each less than 1% of the total e-cards
e90-3, e105 & e106 – just over 1% during the tabulated period
e94, e97 & e103 – infrequently seen
e98 + e102
e96 + e101 – comprising about 6% each of the total e-cards
e93 – 7.1%
e91 – 8.1%
e95 – 9.7%
e92 – 12.3% - less than half the population of the e90-1
Of course this small sampling can result in skewed values, plus it was conducted almost a year and a half ago. Therefore, what existed then may not reflect current card availability. But I offer this for your comment.