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someway to avoid "item you selected has ended, but we found something similar" completed listings?
When looking at completed listings is there someway to bypass the useless " The item you selected has ended, but we found something similar." redirect?
clicking the "view original listing" may not seem like much effort but I'm currently looking up over 100 items, and if I look at 10 listings for each that's 1000 clicks not to mention time wasted.
Thanks.
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kh-vince
·1 year agoHi everyone,
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Thank you for understanding.
starboardset
·1 year agoI came across this same problem a few weeks ago. Mercifully, it stopped, but tonight, it started again.
Whenever I want to peruse ended listings contained within my watch list, that's all I want to see.
I don't want eBay to "find something similar" for me. It clutters up the screen and makes viewing of ended items difficult.
If I need to "find something similar", I would much prefer to use the search function and do it myself.
kyle@ebay
Hey @cresco007 we have received word that this issue has now been resolved. Please let us know if you see any other instances of this happening.
frankbama41
·1 year agoI'm amazed at this change - and the unusable "feature" happens to me all the time with trading cards so if it doesn't for you count yourself lucky.
In addition to all the ridiculousness listed here and I am frustrated by (I should be listing things right now!), I searched the community for this topic and saw similar posts from as far back as 2018. Things seem to go back and forth (also with the "remove all photos" link which is now gone for me in listings) here with no effort into really finding what works the best in the most efficient manner for both buyers and sellers.
I end up having to use third party sites like pricechart to see what things actually sold for. Unfortunately sports cards aren't on there but it's helpful for other things like Pokemon.
Oh and I actually sold 1 thing on Bonanza! So one step in the direction of dumping ebay (sarcasm since I know someone will read that literally). At least I paid less fees.
wastingtime101
·1 year agoLately a lot of listings when clicked from sold search are redirecting to the product page without any link to view the original listing.
There are a few workarounds. One was posted by lacemaker above with the no redirect code in the URL.
The other was mentioned in the first response above and that's to locate the item through Product Research (formerly Terapeak). When you click through that tool it will take you to the original item page without redirecting. At least that's been my experience.
the-movie-man-plus
·1 year agoAlso as a work around and a bit tedious you can currently still see the original listing in the Sold Listings from the App. Or at least I can on my Android.
mondex
·1 year agoI didn't see this post before and just made a similar one. It's a completely terrible "feature" and I hope they remove it soon. As I said in my other post, people click "sold" items to....wait for it...SEE sold items. You're going to get one impulse sale for every who-knows-how-many people you annoy with this "feature." Is lessening the experience of hundreds of people (which accumulatively pushes them toward eventually quitting the website) worth getting that one impulse sale? Would that user have likely bought something anyway through the search bar? Whoever is responsible for this mess really needs to consider if its a good idea for ebay overall in the long run. Ebay depends on buyers and sellers alike, and there is more competition than ever these days. Why make things harder for sellers who are trying to price items correctly and risk pushing them to other platforms?
eburtonlab
·1 year agoAs I said in my other post, people click "sold" items to....wait for it...SEE sold items.
Not necessarily. Some users search for items to buy on Google, and Google may turn up a link to an eBay listing that happens to have ended. eBay would rather serve those potential buyers a similar active listing that can be purchased rather than an ended item that cannot.
Ebay depends on buyers and sellers alike, and there is more competition than ever these days. Why make things harder for sellers
To make things easier for buyers who are spending money on purchases, as opposed to sellers doing research, which may help that specific seller to slightly undercut competing sellers, but which does not add directly to eBay's bottom line the way an additional buyer's purchase would.
frankbama41
·1 year agoUmmm....no. "Some users search for items to buy on Google..." is such a small percentage since a lot of people will just Google things if they want to see the item on more than one platform than ebay.
Researching prices is more about seeing what's something is worth to people at the current time rather than undercutting. Yes people do it to see what the lowest price is and put there's slightly lower but it would be more helpful to look at active listings to do that.
You need to be able to research listings because of seeing the value in variations of items. Especially things like trading cards or other collectibles - condition, one color is more valuable than another, one with a signature (which comes up when searching for a "similar listing" which is not similar at all if you're a buyer or seller looking for a signed item.
7hillscomicsandmore
·1 year agoThe only workaround i've found is to right-click the "product ratings" link, which still pops up an active listing instead of the completed one you're trying to view. This seems to be still triggering the "The item you selected has ended, but we found something similar." bar that allows clicking through to the completed listing.....
This change (redirect to active item with no ability to view the completed one I clicked on) is happening on ~30% of the items I have been trying to view the last 2-3 days. If this becomes a permanent change, will severely slow my process down... As someone else said above, the value of most items I list are determined by the condition, it's not a simple binary for me of "What does new sell for, what does used typically go for".... extremely helpful for me to be able to compare a couple other solds to get that price range right.
eburtonlab
·1 year agoThis change (redirect to active item with no ability to view the completed one I clicked on) is happening on ~30% of the items I have been trying to view the last 2-3 days.
Try viewing those listings on ebay.ca instead of ebay.com -- for some reason listings remain on the Canadian site longer than on the US site.
the-movie-man-plus
·1 year agoPosted about this very issue yesterday as a matter of fact. It's infuriating why they change things that don't need to be changed. In fact as a suggestion, I think we should be able to have 2 separate logins for eBay. Similar to Seller's Hub. Once logged in as a Seller we should have access to past listings and be able to view current listings as a Seller and not as a Buyer. I am so tired of getting Offers from Sellers about listings I glanced at so I can make my own listing. I have to decline a lot of offers from Sellers because of this. If eBay would simply allow us to be logged in as Sellers to research and make new listings then I would hope the system can differentiate between a Buyer and a Seller and not notify a Seller that someone is looking at their item.
mish-productions
·1 year agoI've had the same issue, and if this is permanent, I find it to be an extremely frustrating change. In doing research for many of the books I sell, being able to see the actual sold listing is extremely helpful in gauging a price based off of certain details that can only be found by viewing previous listings. I did find lacemaker3's trick of putting (?nordt=true) at the end to work previously, but now I'm starting to get the item number of the similar item it's directing to instead of the sold item's number. The only work around I've found is right clicking on the sold item's title, clicking copy link, and pasting it into the URL bar without pressing enter, and then deleting everything past the item number part of the link and pasting the (?nordt=true) after. Obviously this is a tedious way of doing it and considering how many people do view sold items to figure out pricing, and often times need to view those sold listings for certain details, this is not a positive change and makes things much more difficult for sellers.
orville_sash
·1 year agoIt's getting worse. Starting today, I can't even view the original listing anymore. That option had been removed. Any listing I click on that has ended, just goes to a live listing and that's it. It even shows the original item listing # in the url, but the page displayed is for a completely different listing 🤣. This is insane. I can't view listings that have ended, now.
redmodelt
·1 year agoSo why not just do an actual search for the thing you are looking for? If just price checking go back and read my suggestion I made in April, that pulls up a list of those items with less fluff.
eburtonlab
·1 year agoStarting today, I can't even view the original listing anymore.
Listings should be available for ninety days unless eBay removes the listing for a policy violation. Did you try scrolling down? eBay likes to add rows of sponsored listings to ended items, but the original should still be there somewhere below that.
Using an ad blocker's element hiding tool to suppress those sponsored item rows can save you a lot of scrolling if you do a lot of look-ups of ended listings.
2jspawn
·1 year agoThis is the exact reason that led me here. I wanted to know if I was the only one experiencing this. Obviously this is major for sellers doing research. Why would they do this?
eburtonlab
·1 year agoWhy would they do this?
Making things a little easier for sellers to do research helps some sellers a little bit.
Making things a little easier for buyers to buy leads to more sales, which leads to more money for eBay and for sellers.
Given a choice, eBay greatly prefers the latter.
lacemaker3
·2 years ago@cresco007, @orville_sash et al.,
You can view a listing like that by adding a no-redirect HTML code (?nordt=true) to the end of the URL, after the item number. I believe this only happens with items that are linked to a product page which have other similar items available.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/ITEM#/?nordt=true
If there aren't any "similar items" to be displayed, and there is no "view original listing" link, then this is the only way I know of to get to the original listing.
lacemaker3
·1 year agoThis workaround still works. You may need to copy-and-paste the item number into this URL to get it to work, but as long as you get the correct item number to replace "ITEM#" this link does still work.
orville_sash
·2 years agoThis is incredibly annoying. It stopped for awhile, but now it's back again.
redmodelt
·2 years agoYou can also use Advance search to check sold prices for the last 90 days. Click on Advance, it is to the right of the search box. Enter what you want to check prices on and go down the page and click sold/enter.
orville_sash
·2 years agoThis doesn't help. As soon as you click on one of the sold listings to view it, it still redirects to an active listing that is "similar".
herway
·2 years agoI noticed that. I believe it is a recent change made by ebay.
Marketing?
Not good for sellers that are doing price research.
You could try the Terapeak research tool, you get more results with that tool. It is located in seller hub, pull down menu at the top.
Best wishes.
cresco007
OP2 years agoThanks for the recommendation, I'll look into it!
I'm a bit nervous to try it because opting in to anything on ebay often seems to cause problems.
orville_sash
·2 years agoI talked to eBay support yesterday, and they basically said "this is how it is now". I told them it's an idiotic marketing ploy. I do searches for dozens, if not hundreds, of sold item listings every day to see what items sold for, and now we have to waste time clicking AGAIN to see the actual item we clicked on in the first place.