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[badgerfan1]

I have had potential buyers say that this is the "standard" for actual ebay sales for sports trading cards.  The amounts are always different than what ebay lists for previous sales.  Is this what other sellers are using instead of current listings for comparables and/or what ebay shows for a price as sold items??

[dirk12955 · Accepted solution]

It's hard to separate potential buyers into categories,  But I'll try.

Some mean well,  Never lie,  Would never do anything to mislead another human being.  Others are dishonest,   Would sell their Mother for the right amount of $$  and 

will lie thru their teeth to mislead an eBay seller into selling something for less than it's worth.

1)  You've got a card

2)  Determine a grade

3)  Check eBay for current "BIN"  listings for your card

4)  Check eBay "Sold"  listings for that card

Any comments or suggestion about things being worth more or 

less can be easily ignored if you do your homework.  

And again,   Not all those wanting to appear to be helpful actually are.   

[tobaccocardyahoo]

Posters on Reddit say it provides the actual accepted offer prices on Ebay which Ebay does not provide,

Given the number of sellers who live in never neverland when they list and then take any offer this can be a big advantage.

[badgerfan1]

Directly from a chat with an eBay representative:

“I have checked the details and understand that possible buyer messaged you seeing the price difference, but that is just a website where prices are shared and they don’t have legitimacy.  We always recommend our buyers to check the items which are actually listed on eBay because they are the genuine listings with actual price.  Items that are listed in different sites are not actual eBay listings and eBay is not responsible for those sites.”

[dirk12955]

That eBay rep is telling you the same thing I told you.

"........they don't have legitimacy"

".......different sites not actually listed on ebay"

No matter the item,   What's important

When selling or buying on ebay,

1)  It's what the item is listed for,

2) What the item is "Selling"  for,

3) Whether the item is actually being paid for.

Too many buyers and sellers get wrapped up in what an item is "Worth" 

and they totally ignore the facts of life.    The facts of life of what an item 

is actually being bought and sold for.  (on ebay)  

[a_c_green]

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@badgerfan1 wrote:

Directly from a chat with an eBay representative:

“I have checked the details and understand that possible buyer messaged you seeing the price difference, but that is just a website where prices are shared and they don’t have legitimacy.  We always recommend our buyers to check the items which are actually listed on eBay because they are the genuine listings with actual price.”

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Yes and no. For current listings, yes, the price (or current bid) is clearly shown. But for Sold listings, the actual selling price shown may not be accurate, such as a negotiated Make Offer price. A struck-through price indicates that a lower offer was accepted, and eBay will not tell you what that negotiated price was. (There are also other circumstances where a lower price is not signaled with a strikethrough of the asking price, but I don't know which negotiated sales will show that way.)

I think there are third-party sites which use certain eBay developer's API calls to retrieve the actual sale price of the item, so for Sold items, they may be able to provide more accurate details than eBay will. I don't know myself if "130point" is one of those sites.

[slippinjimmy]

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@a_c_green wrote:

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@badgerfan1 wrote:

Directly from a chat with an eBay representative:

“I have checked the details and understand that possible buyer messaged you seeing the price difference, but that is just a website where prices are shared and they don’t have legitimacy.  We always recommend our buyers to check the items which are actually listed on eBay because they are the genuine listings with actual price.”

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Yes and no. For current listings, yes, the price (or current bid) is clearly shown. But for Sold listings, the actual selling price shown may not be accurate, such as a negotiated Make Offer price. A struck-through price indicates that a lower offer was accepted, and eBay will not tell you what that negotiated price was. (There are also other circumstances where a lower price is not signaled with a strikethrough of the asking price, but I don't know which negotiated sales will show that way.)

I think there are third-party sites which use certain eBay developer's API calls to retrieve the actual sale price of the item, so for Sold items, they may be able to provide more accurate details than eBay will. I don't know myself if "130point" is one of those sites.

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When an item is sold via an offer you can find the actual selling price by using eBay Product Research, it's only when searching completed listings that you see the original price with a strikethrough.

[wins_7206]

Yes and that ebay so called customer support specialist is just telling you what ebay has determined to be the most beneficial answer for ebay. 130point.com is a much better source of pricing cards than ebay is because it includes sales made on other apps and has a superior interface u.i. in general is better. However, I've never used the feature that is being talked about in this thread. I just came to say that listening to ebay support is equally as helpful as listening to your potential buyers for the same reason.

[doc-holmes]

I use 130point regularly.