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Best Offer Accepted sold comps displaying weird
Does anyone know why Ebay has stopped striking through the full price on sold listings where there was a Best Offer Accepted? For over a week, every sale, regardless of if it was a full price sale or a Best Offer Accepted sale, shows as a full price sale without a strikethrough over the price. No longer displays the text "Best Offer Accepted" beneath the struck full price.
Wondering what the game is here. Ebay trying to inflate perception of selling prices maybe?
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kh-shawn
·7 months agoHi everyone,
Due to the age of this thread, it has been closed to further replies. Please feel free to start a new thread if you wish to continue to discuss this topic.
Thank you for understanding.
lacemaker3
·1 year agoWhen we originally figured out (many years ago) that items sold to offers sent by sellers did not show the strike through on the price, that was a new option and there were basically only two options for selling with an offer. Now, there are a lot of nuances to selling with offers, and we don't really know how all the new variables in offer-sales are shown. So it may be that there are a lot of items being sold with offers now, but only a few are being sold in the way that is displayed with a strike-through.
I wanted to find out if the strike-through is NEVER appearing now, and that turns out not to be true. I ran a keyword search that I expected would give a large number of sold results (corningware cornflower, with best offer; 1400+ sold items) and in the first page of results, I found 2 sales with a strike-through, Best offer accepted (out of 60 total). They were both sold yesterday (Dec 10, 2024) so they are very recent.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=corningware+cornflower&LH_BO=1&LH_Sold=1&LH_Complete=1
However, as I was investigating this and grabbing screenshots, I found out something new: the strike-through DOES NOT ALWAYS SHOW UP. It depends on how you search, or more technically on the codes in the URL, after the keywords.
The search above was for sold and completed items, with best offer, and the strike-through is shown.
This search below, was for sold items, with best offer, and the strike-through is NOT shown.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=corningware+cornflower&LH_BO=1&LH_Sold=1&LH_Complete=1
Conclusions
This is not that unusual, though. eBay often makes unannounced changes to the site, and rarely explains or acknowledges the changes even when they are noticed by users.
eBay has never (to my knowledge) explained why some offer-sales show the strike-through, and some do not. Users have speculated that it is so that buyers will not come to expect that sellers will always accept less than the asking price. Or, to make the sold prices appear higher.
P.S. When I kept on looking through the results, I found several more "Best offer accepted" items with the strike-through, one on Dec. 7 and one on Nov 28, 2024. So that was 4 out of 480 or 0.83%, and it wasn't only high-priced items. For what that's worth.
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I was able to confirm that the strike-through on the price can be seen on a search-by-seller (at least sometimes). I went to do a completed items search, with best offer, by the seller of the last item with a strike-through shown above, and was able to see that they have a fair number of items sold recently that show the strike-through. This is just a few of them, that fit into one screenshot.
impossible_objects
OP7 months agoWow great research. Sorry I'm late to reply.
And now, all these months later, I notice the strikethroughs have returned. I do think it's something to do with the "completed" modifier. Which I've never properly understood anyway haha
cbow4764
·1 year agoI have accepted Best offer and then I see sale pending for 24 hours, then it reappears as relisted. with no payment.. then starts all over again. what is going on.. anyone know TY
impossible_objects
OP1 year agoDifferent issue. Start a new post on this topic.
Though I have experienced (frequently) accepting a best offer, and then having the listing go into limbo where it just disappears and doesn't show up as Awaiting Payment, unless I go to the Manage Offers tab for that listing and I can see it awaiting payment there. But otherwise it's like it just gets vaporized into the ether until payment is received later. So a different issue but just to say that Ebay does weird stuff.
jameshen1
·1 year agoI understand what you are talking about, and I see it on your completed listings and others. None show the strike through therefore looking like they sold for full price. But even though I understand your question, I cannot answer it. I do not know when or why eBay made this change.
If I were to guess, it is so that people looking through a seller's completed listings don't notice that they accepted offers on a great many of them, thus leading people to make offers rather than buy for full price. They are trying to encourage people to pay full price so that eBay collects more in fees. But that is just my guess.
impossible_objects
OP1 year agoI think I'm in agreement with this take. It's just odd because they've made no statement about doing this and it's kind of crept in gradually. I was also wondering if it''s one of those "features" they're trying out by rolling it out for a select group of sellers. One issue is that obviously it makes it harder to gauge selling prices in a general range without going into Product Research. In my category, I am listing a bunch of listings at once and all are unique, so if I went into PR for every listing I'd be squandering a lot of time. By scrolling down a single page of sold comps I can suss out a general pricing bracket; but not if everything showing sold for full price when that's not true. Idk. It's weird.
slippinjimmy
·1 year ago@impossible_objects
If you use Product Research to check for comps you will see the actual selling prices for up to 3 years of sales history.
Using Completed/Sold filters only has 90 days of history, doesn't give you the actual selling prices AND shows you sold listings that were never paid for.
https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/selling-tools/product-research?id=4853
impossible_objects
OP1 year agoI haven't once mentioned, talked about, wondered about, or needed to find out prices the items sold on offer for. Haven't asked. That is not the issue here. I know how to use Product Research/Terapeak. I don't need a tutorial on how Best Offers works, I don't need to be told that Ebay only stores 90 days of data, I am not asking anyone on this forum how to find out a price an item sold for when there's a strikethrough.
trip98
·1 year agoWhat you are describing I noticed with my listing when the seller hub changed and I defaulted to the "in stock" option. I am not sure if the problem is related to the change over, but I have found that if you accept an offer on an item with "in stock" option from the seller hub regardless if you only have one of the item or multiples, it shows the item sold for whatever you listed the item for with no strike through. Below are two items. I recently sold both with best offer. The first one I only had one, the second I have several avail. BTW I did not send the offer, but I may have countered one of them.....I will check the offer history.
impossible_objects
OP1 year agoThat's an interesting twist. I only sell singular items (individual items of pre-owned clothing) and am experiencing the change globally across all listings. For a while when this was first starting, I was still seeing some Best Offer accepted solds with strikethroughs, but now I have zero for the last 60 listings, the majority of which are accepted best offers.
It's just weird, and doesn't feel like a glitch - it feels like something Ebay has decided to apply across the platform and not really release any info about to sellers.
reallynicestamps
·7 months agoI haven't once mentioned, talked about, wondered about, or needed ... Haven't asked. That is not the issue here. I know how to use ...I don't need a tutorial ... I don't need to be told ...I am not asking anyone ...
You are not the only one who will look at this thread with similar questions.
They may need the background that is being provided.
And sometimes the responding poster is ruminating by reviewing as they type to clear their own minds about what the real question is.
FWIW- I'm happy that the Best Offer acceptance is no longer easily viewable. I'd rather have customers think my (similar) listings are worth full price and that I rarely make or accept Best Offers.
All selling is a head game.
stainlessenginecovers
·1 year agoI've never seen the 'price' that a seller accepted (if I'm understanding what you are saying). There was only a 'slash through' and then it said 'best offer accepted' but anyone researching NEVER had an idea what is really sold for (at least the past 2,3,6 years, however long 'Best Offer' has been a thing- that I've ever seen)
impossible_objects
OP1 year agoRight. Nobody said that you could ever see the price the seller accepted. I certainly said no such thing in my top post. Everybody knows this. So I guess you aren't understanding what I am saying. Let's try again.
I am saying: Ebay is no longer showing the sold comps (Green numbers) from sales where the best offer was accepted as strikethroughs. Strikethroughs are what you have called a "slash through." A is when the price at which an item sold (Green numbers) has a line drawn through it, indicating the item was not in fact sold at that price. Underneath such a strikethrough price, there would have been text reading "Best Offer Accepted." You are correct that a viewer of a Best Offer sold listing could never know the price it was sold for. They could only know the item was not sold for the full price, but rather, a price less than the full price.
However, now, as detailed in my top post, this is no longer the case. Ebay is not adding a strikethrough over the full price on a sale in which the Best Offer was accepted, and there is no text reading "Best Offer Accepted." Rather, Ebay is displaying the sold comp (Green numbers) as though it was a full price sale. I know this because every sale I have made in which I accepted an offer, is displayed as if it were a full price sale. Many friends are seeing the same in their sold comps.
To be even clearer, if I were to list an item for $100, with Offers Accepted turned on, I may receive an offer for $75. If I accept this offer, and the buyer pays, the sale is complete. I have sold the item for $75. Ebay will generate a Sold Comp, showing the item has sold. (Sold comp, Sold listing, however you want to call it.)
Until about a week ago, the Sold Comp would have displayed the price like this:
Best Offer Accepted
But now, the price will display as $100.00 without saying "Best Offer Accepted" even thought I know for a fact I accepted a $75 offer.
My post is asking if anyone knows why this is, because it is a huge change that Ebay has said nothing about. It inflates the perception of selling prices across the platform.
mantle1951
·1 year agoI think one of the reasons might be that Ebay wants a " new" visitor to the site to see the higher prices and this might encourage them to become a new seller. Just a thought.