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Topic: eBay best offer accepted results
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spaced out Member Posts: 3110 From: Paris, France Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 05-27-2014 01:12 PM
After managing to find the solution to the issue of saving eBay searches with real names (see this thread) I decided to do a bit more research on another annoying change eBay made a while back.In the good old days, when an item sold to a best offer you could see the final price when searching through sold items. Then eBay decided to hide the final sale price, which was especially frustrating for me because I try to track and record auction results for my sites. Anyway, with a bit of research I was able to find a workaround that I believe uses the same kind of mechanism as the save searches trick - triggering older code that shows the features that are now 'obsolete'. For want of a better place I put this on the Links page of my Space Flown Artifacts site. You need to enter an eBay item id and it will open an eBay closed item search results page which should show the closing price. Hope this helps some people out. |
tnperri Member Posts: 452 From: Malvern, Ohio Registered: Jun 2011
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posted 05-27-2014 03:35 PM
You can also go into the auction and hit the print function this will bring up that actual price that was accepted. |
spaced out Member Posts: 3110 From: Paris, France Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 05-27-2014 05:12 PM
D'oh! That's even more simple. Thanks! |
yeknom-ecaps Member Posts: 660 From: Northville MI USA Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 05-30-2014 11:04 PM
Where is the print function? |
Kevin T. Randall Member Posts: 1082 From: Chesham, Bucks UK Registered: Dec 2008
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posted 05-31-2014 05:50 AM
On the right hand side with 'Report Item', level with the 'Description / Shipping and payments, (which is on the left side of the item sales page). |
moonnut Member Posts: 248 From: Andover, MN Registered: Apr 2013
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posted 02-27-2015 10:39 PM
Looks like eBay is busy screwing a good thing up again. You can no longer see what an item sold for, if it was sold as a best offer. Print option was taken away. I was compiling an eBay sales realization spreadsheet for Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronaut signatures (of course, sifting out the bad signatures, using my own expertise of collecting). Not too happy about this move. |
spaced out Member Posts: 3110 From: Paris, France Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 03-02-2015 12:41 PM
Incidentally, I've updated the functionality on my site so that it shows the accepted price again, at least for now. |
tnperri Member Posts: 452 From: Malvern, Ohio Registered: Jun 2011
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posted 03-04-2015 06:39 AM
I've found another way to display the best offer and also print the original auction. The print option only works for your own items. Simply put in the the item number if its a best offer it will display the purchase price. If its yours it will display the print option down by the report item like before. Hope this works for all.cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemVersion&item= |
europa-titan New Member Posts: 1 From: Registered: Dec 2015
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posted 12-21-2015 10:55 AM
I found about this post and wanted to share with you this.I am trying to find out the actual price of a sold item on eBay. According to eBay, the item was selling for 9999999 but sold to a "best offer accepted." I tried to find out the actual price with watchcount.com by entering its id: 281875408077 but no luck. I clicked in the history and could see two offers of 40 and 49, declined and expired. When using your method, the items still shows up as sold for 9999999. Maybe this is an eBay error and the item did not actually sell? |
tnperri Member Posts: 452 From: Malvern, Ohio Registered: Jun 2011
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posted 12-21-2015 12:04 PM
This method doesn't work anymore. Don't know of any method that works. |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42988 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-21-2015 12:11 PM
At least one method that works (as of now) is to: - Go to the listing page that sold to a best offer. For example, see this listing.
- Use your web brower's option to view the page's source code. (This is usually an option when you right- or control-click.)
- Search the source code for the string:
content="US $ That will reveal the offer the seller accepted. In the above example, the best offer of $70 was accepted. |
Steve Zarelli Member Posts: 731 From: Upstate New York, USA Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 12-21-2015 12:24 PM
WatchCount.com: Paste the item URL into the "Keywords" box and hit enter. It will display the accepted best offer price. |