Ebay final prices

[sparty07]

Why does Ebay hide best offer pricing? They actively try to prevent people from finding the final true selling price, when the auction data is and always has been public. I have used watchcount.com as my primary source over time and it appears that Ebay is now blocking them again (I get a server error when clicking the true price button). I just don't understand the aggression towards Best Offer Accepted price history.

[Drewk86a]

Years ago you could find the final sale price by viewing the closed listing and making a few clicks. My guess is they stopped it for financial reasons, as you said. If a BIN card listed for $50 sells for a best offer accepted price of $25, then $25 becomes the new benchmark for that card. Most people looking at future BIN listings would probably not go higher than $25.

Hiding the "best offer accepted" price could cause people to make higher offers than they would if they had seen the "best offer accepted" amount.

[ac4760]

Used to be you could go to completed sales and after sorting them high to low or vice versa, you could see where it fell ( from a best offer) and at least get a good estimate of the final price. Now it just falls at the original asking price with a B.O. accepted notation.

[camsue]

Use to be able to view that info

[leaflandwest]

Why does Ebay hide best offer pricing? They actively try to prevent people from finding the final true selling price, when the auction data is and always has been public. I have used watchcount.com as my primary source over time and it appears that Ebay is now blocking them again (I get a server error when clicking the true price button). I just don't understand the aggression towards Best Offer Accepted price history.

Agreed, it's super annoying but I think they see it as being in their best interest to report the highest possible price since it keeps the comps up which could lead to higher actual sale prices and more commissions for them.

There was another recent thread that linked to http://www.130point.com/sales which appears to be a fairly reliable source of actual price data (based on my limited use over the past week or so)

[30ranfordfan]

I think the speculation here is right: They hide it, because that leads to the appearance of higher sale prices, and (in theory) pushes the price higher for the next item.

If I list for $50, and sold.... I must have got close to $50, right? Next guy needs to offer around $50.....


Thing is, sports cards are a small drop in the buckett for eBay. More and more they push themselves as a place to go to buy ANYTHING, new & used. That's a smart move for them..... but lower prices, IMO, would actually attract more buyers, leading to more sales.

I need to get a new pack of pods for my dishwasher. Am I going to go to the grocery store, the hardware store, Amazon, or eBay? If eBay would like me to pick them.... it's only going to happen if I can get the price there.

As I'm writing this though, I'm also trying to think of someone selling multiples of the same thing. If you've got an entire crate of those dishwasher pods, and have them priced at $25 or BO..... once you accept $18, you're only getting $18 - because everyone will offer that. If the price is hidden, next guy might come along and offer $20.

I dunno. When you see eBay's shipping policies, it's clear to me that $5 purchases of sports cards are NOT what they've geared things towards. I find the hidden prices annoying too, but I'm guessing if we dealt in other silos - it would make more sense.

[sparty07]

@30ranfordfan that makes sense

[canucksfan007]

If you have an ebay storefront you have all the data available to you .... and can see all completed sales within the last 12 months.

This comes with the lowest tier monthly storefront fee

[sparty07]

I checked out 130point today. Looks like they still have good data.

[ac4760]

Another member mentioned the site sportscards.com which does show the original price as well as the accepted price. I have used this site a few times and got the information I wanted.