OT: eBay Trick: Best Offer Completed Items -- How To See The Selling Price
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For those who don't know, you can still see the Best Offer prices on ended eBay BINs by doing this:
Just grab the eBay item# and paste it into the home page of Watchcount and they'll show you the actual Sold price of those Best Offer items. Pretty neat.
Broken: Before learning about watchcount, I used to change the .com to .ca in the eBay address, that trick that I think everyone knows by now, but that doesn't seem to work anymore. Looks like ".fr" and ".ie" recently died too. Hopefully the Watchcount site will continue to function.
BTW, they also have an eBay wildcard search tool there as well. If you're an old fart like myself, you've been using the asterisk character for years now, for things like 191* to pull up year ranges. Sucks that eBay sliced out that capability last year, but watchcount's tool does a decent job of picking up the slack, although it's got its quirks.
Just thought I'd mention that... Hope this helps some folks.
Just grab the eBay item# and paste it into the home page of Watchcount and they'll show you the actual Sold price of those Best Offer items. Pretty neat.
Broken: Before learning about watchcount, I used to change the .com to .ca in the eBay address, that trick that I think everyone knows by now, but that doesn't seem to work anymore. Looks like ".fr" and ".ie" recently died too. Hopefully the Watchcount site will continue to function.
BTW, they also have an eBay wildcard search tool there as well. If you're an old fart like myself, you've been using the asterisk character for years now, for things like 191* to pull up year ranges. Sucks that eBay sliced out that capability last year, but watchcount's tool does a decent job of picking up the slack, although it's got its quirks.
Just thought I'd mention that... Hope this helps some folks.
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Thanks for the tip
I don't research closed auctions, let alone Best Offers received, like I should, but I'm another old eBay fogey who's missed his asterisk wildcard search capabilities a time or two.
<< <i>Thanks for the tip - does it have an older archive than ebay too?? >>
I haven't come across that on watchcount.com -- ended items from eBay's deep dark past. Terapeak (subscription service) I hear is good for that sorta thing. eBay sellers are known for subscribing to it to help them price their inventory.
(tydye: Very clever tip BTW, thanks. I hadn't seen that behavior til you pointed it out.)
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I'm sorta curious what people think – is eBay actively trying to withhold best offer prices, or are they just being lame/slow and haven't worked it into their latest site redesigns and page templates? Have they ever made an announcement of some kind about it?
I think sites like Watchcount get their info from the eBay API, so if eBay really wanted to hide that info, they would presumably pull it from the API too. But maybe this is just a case of corporationitis: left-hand & right-hand not always communicating, etc...
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I'm sorta curious what people think – is eBay actively trying to withhold best offer prices, or are they just being lame/slow and haven't worked it into their latest site redesigns and page templates? >>
I think it's the second thing. I just sold a coin through a Best Offer, and when I went into Turbo Lister and synched my inventory, it didn't capture the actual sale price, rather it showed the sale as being for full price. I can't imagine eBay is hiding the final hammer price from the seller on purpose, so it looks more like sloppy design to me.
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This is an excellent site. Thank you for posting it!
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I'm sorta curious what people think – is eBay actively trying to withhold best offer prices, or are they just being lame/slow and haven't worked it into their latest site redesigns and page templates? >>
I think it's the second thing. I just sold a coin through a Best Offer, and when I went into Turbo Lister and synched my inventory, it didn't capture the actual sale price, rather it showed the sale as being for full price. I can't imagine eBay is hiding the final hammer price from the seller on purpose, so it looks more like sloppy design to me.
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Doesn't turbo lister only remember the listing as originally submitted for listing?
One reason for hiding best offer accepted is to protect a seller who is accepting offers and has more than one quantity
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In this example (click the "History" link), you can see how the seller lowered his/her expectations of a good selling price over the course of a day or so.
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One question: Will this site give you the 'declined offers' on a running item?
It sure would be helpful to see what others have offered and been declined on an item while the auction is still live.
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One question: Will this site give you the 'declined offers' on a running item?
It sure would be helpful to see what others have offered and been declined on an item while the auction is still live.
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i ran one of my own listings through that site and all the offer page showed was declined with no price visible.
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and it comes up as active at $2599 when it was listed well under 2k and best offer accepted. Perhaps the
buyer offered more than the asking BIN price? lol
bob
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i ran one of my own listings through that site and all the offer page showed was declined with no price visible.
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Yeah, I saw that too: for live Best Offer items, just a history of Declines (and their dates/times), but no prices -- until the item finally sells, then prices appear.
Still, even without prices, some helpful info can sometimes be gleaned. Like, tons of Declines might suggest the seller is holding out for very close to his asking price.
As for that Morgan, I'm seeing that $2,599 figure as well – which is exactly the same price that eBay itself is reporting for the item, but with a line through it. (Seems accurate to me, as the displayed alleged asking prices match.)
The Watchcount BO links show it actually sold for $1,449.