Discrepancy Between Store Listings and Active Listings in Hub

[Joe]

So I was checking my store and noticed on the Search bar “Search all 6047 items”, however, I currently have 6177 active listings.  Anybody have a clue why the discrepancy?  Does yours match?  Thanks

[Sharyn]

Mine match. I have 1480 items. If I go to my storefront page, it says “Search all 1480 items”.

Although, here is something else I hadn’t noticed before:

103 Followers
100% Positive feedback
4.7K Items sold

I’ve sold 4,700 items? Wow!

I assume I have 103 followers because of my posting in Steve’s video post each week.

[craig rex]

Could it be multi-quantity or variation listings? I remember seeing a small discrepancy between the two totals in the past when I had listings with more than one quantity of the item. I discontinued those types of listings at some point because there were occasional errors with the quantity being adjusted, maybe when the listing renewed or sold out? I don’t really remember.

I realized when checking these numbers that wow, I have sold a lot of items (17K), and also that it’s no longer possible to see who your followers are. Probably because of privacy reasons, same as why bidder IDs are masked. I used to waste some time looking at my followers (especially when the number went up or down) or other sellers followers, so for me personally it’s good that info is hidden.

[Jay]

I used to waste some time looking at my followers (especially when the number went up or down) or other sellers followers, so for me personally it’s good that info is hidden.

It was great when you could see a buyer’s purchase history. Remember when eBay showed the exact price people paid for items? Now, when someone makes an offer, it’s just the full price with a mark through.

[craig rex]

It was great when you could see a buyer’s purchase history.

There used to be so much “hidden info” available which was useful from a scavenging perspective, either finding good sellers to follow where you could get huge steals as a buyer, or seeing which items specific buyers were targeting to get a better idea what inventory to look for or what would sell. Now it seems a lot more like searching for a needle in haystack…on eBay at least. I suppose that sort of info is now more widely available if you scour YouTube and podcasts and blogs for eBay reselling content.

Remember when eBay showed the exact price people paid for items? Now, when someone makes an offer, it’s just the full price with a mark through.

If you use Terapeak for your searches, you can see the exact price someone paid even with a best offer on a fixed price listing. It used to only be available to store subscribers at or above a certain level (maybe basic?) but I think it’s free for all users now. There is a 24 hour lag, so items that sell today don’t show up until you run the search tomorrow. Terapeak also provides a full year of sales info which usually turns up some kind of data point for all but the rarest of rare items.

[So Cal Joe]

You actually used to be able to see what another Ebayer was bidding on. If someone was buying the same type of items as you, you could look at their bidding history to find good deals and outbid them if you chose.

This was way back, when hardly any information was hidden and most listings were auctions.

Also, when searching sold listings, it went back years, not just 90 days.

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