If the item you wish to sell is commonly sold on eBay, you can use eBay Search to find current value of the item. When you do the initial item search, you will see what sellers are currently asking for their items. Some sellers allow buyers to make “Best Offers”, other sellers may have a fixed price without the option for making a best offer”. Other items may be sold in an eBay auction format.
As an eBay seller, the number you want to base your pricing, or at least your sold price expectation on is the actual sold price. Do not just do an item search and think the prices you see are the prices you can get for your items. Below we will explain the process of finding the eBay sold item prices using eBay search to find your items. Once caveat is that for fixed price items eBay may still display the original fixed price and not the “make offer” price that a buyer accepted.
Steps to find sold prices using eBay search:
1. Go to eBay Search through the eBay website or from your eBay App
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2. Enter the description of the item you want to find into eBay search. For example, enter “dog treat jar” and press the eBay search button.
3. You will see a list of the currently available dog treat jars with the current asking prices.
4. Jump to 4B if you are using the eBay App. Look along the left side of the eBay screen until you see the options for “See only” and click on “Sold items”.
4B. Note for step 4 using the eBay app. When searching using the eBay app you should see “Filter” on the top right of your screen.
Select “Filter”.
Select “Show more” near the bottom of your screen.
Scroll down and toggle “Show Item”
Select “Show # results”
5. All the currently available items should be replaced with items that have been sold over the past three months. Some underpriced or overpriced items may have been sold, but the sold prices should be close to what you can expect to receive for your item.
Using eBay search to check sold item prices is definitely worthwhile. Result only include items that sold over the past several months. Other articles on this site will discuss Terapeak reasearch that covers a year of price history and Worthpoint that covers years of price history.
