Just recently watched a YouTube video that referenced a tweet (
) that a Jimmy G. sports card was sold, but at a best offer price. Apparently in searching sold listings, it only shows being sold at the list price, without the strike-through indicating a best offer was accepted. eBay even responded.
Now I just did a quick search of “pokemon psa” sold listings, and I still see the strike-through for BO sales.
Anyone else hear of this? Just wondering if it was a fluke, only for certain items, something new that is still be implemented. Seems like it could have major repercussions, especially with collectibles.
“Hi! We don’t show those prices because each seller has different limits on what they’re willing to accept. Those offers wouldn’t reflect the average across all similar products. We don’t want to skew market value based on seller’s acceptance of lower costs. ~Laura”
That does SKEW the market value. This could be interesting for sold listings in the future…
Although it is a small annoyance, you can very easily find out the accepted offer price by viewing the page source.
Make sure you’re on the actual item page2. Right click —> View Page Source3. Ctrl + F to open your finder, paste this into your finder → "taxExclusivePrice"4. You’re done, the amount shown is the accepted best offer price.
Pretty sure their response pages still shows this information, at least their APIs exposes all this information and you can typically get at it directly if you have the item number.
You can replace the item= with whatever item number and it will show the ended listing with the actual bought price.
afaik terapeak uses the eBay APIs to get to this data and that still works (im also using it myself and it’s still functional)
not really user friendly but the data is there.
this has been happening for a while. also, if a seller has a lot with multiple quantities and one item sells for $100 for example, then the seller adjusts the rest of the lot to $150, ebay would show the sold item to be $150…