Best Offer Accepted sold comps displaying weird

[impossible_objects]

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?

[mantle1951]

I 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.

[stainlessenginecovers]

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@impossible_objects wrote:

Does anyone know why Ebay has stopped showing Best Offer Accepted prices on Sold comps as strikethroughs?  Now 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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I'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]

Right.  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 strikethrough 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: 

$100.00

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.

[slippinjimmy]

@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]

I 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.

[jameshen1]

I 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.

[fern*wood]

I know what you are talking about, but I thought that's always how it has worked.   When I send an offer, I guess ebay doesn't see it as best offer (unlike the best offer feature on some listings).  It seems a play on words basically, but who knows why ebay makes the distinction as far as what is disclosed on sold listings.

[trip98]

What 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]

It only happens when you accept a Best offer.  If you send an offer, the price does not get a strikethrough.

[impossible_objects]

That'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.

[impossible_objects]

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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.

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I 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.

[cbow4764]

I 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

[fern*wood]

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@impossible_objects wrote:

It only happens when you accept a Best offer.  If you send an offer, the price does not get a strikethrough.

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I know, I just was saying mine have always worked like this.  It isn’t something that just started for me.

[impossible_objects]

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I know, I just was saying mine have always worked like this.  It isn’t something that just started for me.

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You're saying yours has "always worked like this" referring to when you send an offer, it doesn't display a strikethrough?  Right, that's the same for everyone.  That's not what is at issue here.  We aren't talking about what happens when you send offers.  We are talking about accepting offers.  Nobody is saying that when you send offers it doesn't show a strikethrough just started happening. 

Did you start noticing your sold comps on ACCEPTED OFFERS no longer displaying strikethroughs?  I don't know any sellers (and I know a lot) who ever had this condition occur on their best offer accepted sold comps in the past, until about a week ago.