Sold Price is not accurate when Best offer is accepted in 7 day auction format

[ebmama]

I recently listed a product in 7 day auction format with starting bid of $85 and activated make an offer as well. I received multiple offers and accepted an offer for $200 before the auction ended. The listing is showing the original opening bid price instead of the actual sale price. This appears to be the case with other listings I have done using this format. Since many people use ebay (and other sources) as a way of determining best listing price, this inaccuracy is an issue. Example of this can be found at https://www.ebay.com/itm/335147992044.

[slippinjimmy]

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@ebmama wrote:

I recently listed a product in 7 day auction format with starting bid of $85 and activated make an offer as well. I received multiple offers and accepted an offer for $200 before the auction ended. The listing is showing the original opening bid price instead of the actual sale price. This appears to be the case with other listings I have done using this format. Since many people use ebay (and other sources) as a way of determining best listing price, this inaccuracy is an issue. Example of this can be found at https://www.ebay.com/itm/335147992044.

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Use Terapeak for research!

1 - It gives you 3 years of history

2 - The prices shown are the actual selling prices

[ebmama]

As stated previously, prices shown are not actual selling prices if I accept an offer on an auction listing. It shows the original opening bid regardless of what it sold for.

[lacemaker3 · Accepted solution]

You're correct. That is how eBay shows the prices for items that sold to a best offer in the sold-items search.

This is intentional. eBay does it like this so that prospective buyers can't see how much of a discount was given, so that they don't start expecting that seller (or other sellers) to always accept a lower price for items. It's a privacy issue because the sold-items list (and completed listing pages) are very public. They can be viewed by anyone, with an eBay account or not.

Terapeak Product Research - eBay Seller Hub

eBay users with a selling account can get more accurate information about selling prices, from Terapeak as @slippinjimmy  said. Terapeak was developed for eBay seller research. This includes information over much longer time intervals, and including what amount was paid for shipping, as well as the selling price instead of the asking price for items that sold to offers.

Buyers (and sellers who don't use eBay) don't have access to Terapeak. They have no right to this information, it is for sellers registered on eBay.

[ebmama]

Thank you for the clarification. I was concerned that it was a technical issue and now I know its not and lso have a workaround that I did not know about.