Can I see how many bids on a sold item?

[shopperclub]

If I am researching an item that's been sold, can I see how many bids there were?

[lady_madonna]

@shopperclub 

Go to the listing page for the sold item and you can see the number of bids underneath the price. You can also click on that number to see the bidding history.

[woodland_gnome]

Go to the Listing Page for the auction (the one with the Description and the Shipping and Payments* tab) and from there click on the # of bid display (even if "0 bids", but see below if it is) to get to the Bid History Page. 

For a completed listing you will most likely have to click another link from what is brought up when you click a link to a completed listing (but eBay wants to sell to you so it often sends you to a "similar" item that is still for sale).  Look up at the top of the active listing page you might be brought to for an explanation that the item you were looking for is already sold or otherwise not available and somewhere in there is a link to the "Original listing" which might or might not use that term; often you click on the photo of the original item at the left side of the explanation box.

*Update:  the tabs are now labelled "About this item" and "Shipping, returns, and payments" respectively.