someway to avoid "item you selected has ended, but we found something similar" completed listings?

[cresco007]

When looking at completed listings is there someway to bypass the useless " The item you selected has ended, but we found something similar." redirect?

clicking the "view original listing" may not seem like much effort but I'm currently looking up over 100 items, and if I look at 10 listings for each that's 1000 clicks not to mention time wasted.

Thanks.

[herway]

I noticed that. I believe it is a recent change made by ebay.

Marketing?

Not good for sellers that are doing price research.

You could try the Terapeak research tool, you get more results with that tool. It is located in seller hub, pull down menu at the top.

Best wishes.

[cresco007]

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll look into it!

I'm a bit nervous to try it because opting in to anything on ebay often seems to cause problems. 

[redmodelt]

You can also use Advance search to check sold prices for the last 90 days. Click on Advance, it is to the right of the search box. Enter what you want to check prices on and go down the page and click sold/enter. 

[orville_sash]

This is incredibly annoying.  It stopped for awhile, but now it's back again.  

[lacemaker3]

@cresco007, @orville_sash et al.,

You can view a listing like that by adding a no-redirect HTML code (?nordt=true) to the end of the URL, after the item number. I believe this only happens with items that are linked to a product page which have other similar items available.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/ITEM#/?nordt=true  

If there aren't any "similar items" to be displayed, and there is no "view original listing" link, then this is the only way I know of to get to the original listing.

[orville_sash]

This doesn't help.  As soon as you click on one of the sold listings to view it, it still redirects to an active listing that is "similar".  

[orville_sash]

I talked to eBay support yesterday, and they basically said "this is how it is now".  I told them it's an idiotic marketing ploy.  I do searches for dozens, if not hundreds, of sold item listings every day to see what items sold for, and now we have to waste time clicking AGAIN to see the actual item we clicked on in the first place.  

[orville_sash]

It's getting worse.  Starting today, I can't even view the original listing anymore.  That option had been removed.  Any listing I click on that has ended, just goes to a live listing and that's it.  It even shows the original item listing # in the url, but the page displayed is for a completely different listing 🤣.  This is insane.  I can't view listings that have ended, now. 

[redmodelt]

So why not just do an actual search for the thing you are looking for? If just price checking go back and read my suggestion I made in April, that pulls up a list of those items with less fluff. 

[eburtonlab]

Starting today, I can't even view the original listing anymore.

Listings should be available for ninety days unless eBay removes the listing for a policy violation. Did you try scrolling down? eBay likes to add rows of sponsored listings to ended items, but the original should still be there somewhere below that.

Using an ad blocker's element hiding tool to suppress those sponsored item rows can save you a lot of scrolling if you do a lot of look-ups of ended listings.

[mish-productions]

I've had the same issue, and if this is permanent, I find it to be an extremely frustrating change. In doing research for many of the books I sell, being able to see the actual sold listing is extremely helpful in gauging a price based off of certain details that can only be found by viewing previous listings. I did find lacemaker3's trick of putting (?nordt=true) at the end to work previously, but now I'm starting to get the item number of the similar item it's directing to instead of the sold item's number. The only work around I've found is right clicking on the sold item's title, clicking copy link, and pasting it into the URL bar without pressing enter, and then deleting everything past the item number part of the link and pasting the (?nordt=true) after. Obviously this is a tedious way of doing it and considering how many people do view sold items to figure out pricing, and often times need to view those sold listings for certain details, this is not a positive change and makes things much more difficult for sellers.

[2jspawn]

This is the exact reason that led me here. I wanted to know if I was the only one experiencing this. Obviously this is major for sellers doing research. Why would they do this?

[eburtonlab]

Why would they do this?

Making things a little easier for sellers to do research helps some sellers a little bit.

Making things a little easier for buyers to buy leads to more sales, which leads to more money for eBay and for sellers.

Given a choice, eBay greatly prefers the latter.

[lacemaker3]

This workaround still works. You may need to copy-and-paste the item number into this URL to get it to work, but as long as you get the correct item number to replace "ITEM#" this link does still work.

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@lacemaker3 wrote:

@cresco007, @orville_sash et al.,

You can view a listing like that by adding a no-redirect HTML code (?nordt=true) to the end of the URL, after the item number. I believe this only happens with items that are linked to a product page which have other similar items available.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/ITEM#/?nordt=true

If there aren't any "similar items" to be displayed, and there is no "view original listing" link, then this is the only way I know of to get to the original listing.

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