Number Sold

[inhawaii]

When you do a search for something, you are still on the search page, sometimes it tells you the number sold, sometimes it doesn't.

Is the magic number 10 before it shows how many sold?

[castlemagicmemories]

When there is no number, none have sold.  

Sold items register and show at one.  So if only one has sold, that is reflected. As more are sold, that is also reflected, such as two, three, etc.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

There is no magic number. Sometimes it shows number sold, sometimes it says only one left, sometimes it shows number of watchers. The information displayed can change at any time, just like the 3 little boxes below the price and above ship cost on a listing.

These are areas where eBay chooses different things to highlight. I can look at the same listing and see different aspects highlighted on different days.

[Anonymous]

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@castlemagicmemories wrote:

When there is no number, none have sold.  

Sold items register and show at one.  So if only one has sold, that is reflected.

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The OP is talking about the search results page not the listing page. An item can have 100+ sales and still not show the number sold in search results.

[castlemagicmemories]

Thanks, @Anonymous  I thought he meant the listing page.

[inhawaii]

You are correct. 

I did some more experimenting.  It seems like a computer generated/random thing.

113 Sold

Only 1 left!

63 Sold

6 Watching

10 Sold

I couldn't find anything less than 10 sold.