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07/15/2019 at 10:32 pm #64978
I know for a fact a lot of times sold listings do not show the actual price an item sold for. This is misleading and makes pricing a bit of a crap shoot. I’ve seen the discrepancy many times. The most recent example is an item I just sold. The “sold” listing claims it sold for $36. I actually accepted an offer for $29. It doesn’t say “best offer accepted”. It merely claims that it sold for $36.
Given how often I find this to be the case on my own items, I can only imagine how many times I’ve been deceived by the fake numbers that I find when researching sold listings in order to price new listings (or when trying to decide whether or not to buy something for resale).
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07/15/2019 at 11:09 pm #64980
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Ebay suppresses sold prices to control price declines in the marketplace. They know sellers check sold listings for pricing.
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07/15/2019 at 11:43 pm #64984
Hi again Steve. I agree this is annoying. Someone on this list awhile back pointed be to this site, where if you enter in the ebay listing number or url you can get the actual price.
https://www.flippertools.com/tools/ebayOfferHistory/ebay-best-offer-actual-price.htm
I use this all the time for pricing help!
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07/15/2019 at 11:54 pm #64985
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Ebay suppresses sold prices for best offer. The site you point to, ebaywatchcount & others do not display prices of listings sold with best offer. They haven’t for a while now.
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07/16/2019 at 1:15 am #64987
I just checked this with one of my recent sales and you are correct. I also checked one in April and it didn’t work.
How long has this been going on? I used it for a few sales a few weeks back and it seemed to work.
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07/16/2019 at 1:21 am #64988
Replying to self. I found an ebay item 113763315963 from June 7, 2019. If you search for that item on eBay it says price sold $150 (it said best offer accepted on the search results when I found it). Then I go to the page I linked and I get a price of $115. Why is this one shown and others not? Very confused.
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07/16/2019 at 12:48 am #64986
I second Steves Stuff’s request. It’s just getting ridiculous at this point that they still show the incorrect selling price.
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07/16/2019 at 8:33 am #64992
Didn’t eBays stop showing the actual sale price a couple years ago? I never heard any reasoning why.
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07/16/2019 at 9:17 am #64994
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07/16/2019 at 11:24 am #65013
I understand why they might want to suppress the actual sale price for best offers. It dawned on me after starting this topic and I realized that exposing that info could lead to prices artificially plummeting as result of a desperate seller who accepts a ridiculous lowball offer.
I think what annoys me the most is that eBay says that it “sold for”, rather than just leaving it at “best offer accepted”. It’s like they’re actively lying.
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07/16/2019 at 1:45 pm #65016
The easiest way to extrapolate an actual sales price is by going from low to high or high to low in sold results, if it is possible to do so. There will be some items mixed in that sold for the actual price they are listed for. You just have to sort of estimate at that point what an item actually sold for.
I do agree that it’s annoying and wish they would show actual results as well. I also find it annoying that if an item sells with a private offer to buyer, it will still show it as the item selling for its full asking price. So, even if an item appears to have sold for full asking price, it can sometimes not actually sell for its full asking price, so you have to keep that additional layer of possible sold prices in mind while estimating the actual sale price of an item. Just ridiculous.
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07/16/2019 at 6:01 pm #65038
almasty, this is a great point and I have used this method as well. At least you can get a range of what it sold for, which helps a bit.
And of course if you have an eBay store subscription, you can use https://sell.terapeak.com/ to get actual prices from the last year. So happy they started this, it has really helped pricing some obscure and high priced items recently.
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07/16/2019 at 2:54 pm #65022
In my experience, when you send an offer on an item that was not listed with “best offer” on it, the sold price will show the original listed price.
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07/16/2019 at 4:37 pm #65031
Flipper Tools fixed the problem on their site and now it works again. It was down for a while, and they were very transparent about it on the site and in their Facebook group.
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07/16/2019 at 8:33 pm #65047
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Thanks for the update, but I tried it with several best offer item numbers & it still doesn’t work. What are they saying in their facebook group & website?
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07/16/2019 at 9:50 pm #65048
eBay exposes the best offer history of items via
GetBestOffersin their Trading API. I did some testing and was able to see all the offers sent on a specific item. The sold price was found just by looking for which offer has a status of “Accepted.”I don’t know why Flipper Tools is so hit and miss, but it’s possible the API is omitting certain offers from calls performed by clients not involved in either the buying/selling of an item. However, eBay’s API docs explicitly state that all offers are public knowledge after a listing ends.
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07/16/2019 at 10:02 pm #65049
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Thanks indy. Not publishing best offer sale prices was an ebay policy change 3-4 years ago iirc. multi sided marketplaces like ebay believe this sales data to be proprietary now, and like you say in your post, do not want it visible to 3rd parties to the transaction. Are the calls capped?
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07/16/2019 at 11:16 pm #65050
Yeah. The call limit varies based on API (Trading vs. Shopping, etc.) Something like Flipper Tools should just be using the Trading API, which caps out at 1.5mil/24 hours if they’ve went through the “Compatible Application Check,” otherwise it’s just 5k.
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