Completed items search no longer working 99% of the time. How am I supposed to know an items value?

[theofficefan4life]

Am I the only one who's noticed that for the longest time now, if you do a search for "completed" listings to see what a particular item sold for, eBay won't display the results? But yet if you look at the active listings, there will be plenty of the item you searched for! I am sure that like most resellers we DEPEND on the completed listing values to gauge an items worth! EBAY PLEASE FIX THIS!!!!!!!!!

[hioctane62]

LOL I'm sure they would love that, as long as they could take their cut of the seller's payment to the buyer.

[gracieallen01]

No, they would re-examine their data, decide what something is then worth and charge a percentage of THAT amount. 

[fashunu4eeuh]

Hi, eBay made a recent change in showing Completed listings. When you initially search for the item of interest, is eBay showing you an active listing of the item instead? If so, you must click on the heading above the item shown and then the completed item is displayed. (I am trying to get to that change but now but when i am searching Completed's it is showing them to me without the extra step, just as they used to show.) It is actually a word in the heading "listing", shaded blue to designate it's a link, that needs to be clicked on. The heading says something along the lines of "This listing is no longer available, but here is one for you." Does this describe your experience? 

Here is a discussion re: the issue from June with screen shots.

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/quot-The-selected-item-is-no-longer-available-quot-Can-t-view/...

[fashunu4eeuh]

Hi, eBay made a recent change in showing Completed listings. When you initially search for the item of interest, is eBay showing you an active listing of the item instead? If so, you must click on the heading above the item shown and then the completed item is displayed. (I am trying to get to that change but now but when i am searching Completed's it is showing them to me without the extra step, just as they used to show.) It is actually a word in the heading "listing", shaded blue to designate it's a link, that needs to be clicked on. The heading says something along the lines of "This listing is no longer available, but here is one for you." Does this describe your experience? 

Here is a discussion re: the issue from June with screen shots.

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Selling/quot-The-selected-item-is-no-longer-available-quot-Can-t-view/...

[jason_incognito]

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@gracieallen01 wrote:

Silly me.  Here I thought he was looking for the 'value' of something.    Of course, anyone can sell anything they want for whatever price they want - no matter what something is worth.  It happens online all the time.

Sometimes I think that ebay would rather people paid buyers to take their goods. 

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Sometimes I think sellers are able to sleep easier after having convinced hemselves that a basement full of junk is really worth a princely sum.

I know of a family that just recently had to liquidate grandpa's antiques. He had a store for years and had closed it. He chose to pay huge sums every month to store his treasures rather than sell them off for a pittance. When the family was the one to sell the stuff they were amazed at the difference in what they sold everything for and what gramps had though it was all worth. It wasn't like they held a garage sale, they took over 6 months to sell all of it.

I dunno, I'd rather figure what it will actually sell for, list it there and in a few months have everything sold than make a career of liquidating stuff.