eBay Best Offer Realized Prices

lahmejoon

Hi All,

I'm just curious if anyone has figured out an alternative to watchcount or using .ca or .uk for best offer prices realized. None of these seem to work anymore. I try to sort realized prices to see where they may fall, relative to others, but I'm really missing watchcount.

PaulMaul

Flipper tools doesn’t work any more either. They must all be failing due to something on ebay’s end.

erikthredd

@lahmejoon said:
Hi All,

I'm just curious if anyone has figured out an alternative to watchcount or using .ca or .uk for best offer prices realized. None of these seem to work anymore. I try to sort realized prices to see where they may fall, relative to others, but I'm really missing watchcount.

Just add the auction number to the end if this and you should get the Best Offer price for whatever auction you're looking up:
cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemVersion&item=

frankhardy

For the life of me, I don't understand Ebay's reasoning for not giving users the ability to see the best offer.

mrmopar

I can almost guarantee that it has something to do with the intent of selling that information in the future. Look at worthpoint, people pay for subscriptions to be able to see what items sold for in the past. Information is power and worth money to some.

It pisses me off because I have been tracking Garvey sales prices on low serial numbered cards for nearly 2 decades. Now I just get the ballpark range for so many. It is also irritating how many people are using BIN/BO for cards. True auctions seem to be dying as a method of selling. They don't know it obviously, but many sellers who have accepted offers within minutes or hours of posting have left a lot of money on the table in cases where I would have been a potential buyer, had they waited for more offers or just auctioned the same item off.

grote15

Eric beat me to it.

lahmejoon

@erikthredd said:

@lahmejoon said:
Hi All,

I'm just curious if anyone has figured out an alternative to watchcount or using .ca or .uk for best offer prices realized. None of these seem to work anymore. I try to sort realized prices to see where they may fall, relative to others, but I'm really missing watchcount.

Just add the auction number to the end if this and you should get the Best Offer price for whatever auction you're looking up:
cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemVersion&item=

Thank you so much! This worked like a charm!

ndleo

Here is what I heard. Ebay made a change in their api and it is messed up the data feed to watchcount. This was supposedly not intended and ebay is trying to fix it......slowly.

erikthredd

@lahmejoon said:

@erikthredd said:

@lahmejoon said:
Hi All,

I'm just curious if anyone has figured out an alternative to watchcount or using .ca or .uk for best offer prices realized. None of these seem to work anymore. I try to sort realized prices to see where they may fall, relative to others, but I'm really missing watchcount.

Just add the auction number to the end if this and you should get the Best Offer price for whatever auction you're looking up:
cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemVersion&item=

Thank you so much! This worked like a charm!

I found that on BlowOut so any thanks should be pointed there.