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<p>[QUOTE="Blissskr, post: 2908675, member: 34882"]I agree in part, many sellers will look at Ebay when selling and not look at completed sales just what items are listed for and the outliers really can inflate an items price. When someone likes to tell me that x is going for y on Ebay. I like to point out that for the average Joe selling on Ebay without a store or top seller discount that seller is also losing 13% of that valuation to fee's (10% to Ebay, 3% to Paypal). It could be even higher if you add shipping/packaging costs if shipping is listed as free.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But you can avoid seeing completed but not actually sold listings if use advanced search features and click the check box for only sold listings. The problem with this though is buy it now will show as the listed price not the accepted price if someone made an offer lower than that price but by viewing the purchase history you can see the actual price</p><p><a href="http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidsLogin&item=332400102198&rmvSB=true" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidsLogin&item=332400102198&rmvSB=true" rel="nofollow">http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidsLogin&item=332400102198&rmvSB=true</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Really though it's like any tool and if you don't learn how to use it, it's not going to work to your advantage.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]701932[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]701935[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Blissskr, post: 2908675, member: 34882"]I agree in part, many sellers will look at Ebay when selling and not look at completed sales just what items are listed for and the outliers really can inflate an items price. When someone likes to tell me that x is going for y on Ebay. I like to point out that for the average Joe selling on Ebay without a store or top seller discount that seller is also losing 13% of that valuation to fee's (10% to Ebay, 3% to Paypal). It could be even higher if you add shipping/packaging costs if shipping is listed as free. But you can avoid seeing completed but not actually sold listings if use advanced search features and click the check box for only sold listings. The problem with this though is buy it now will show as the listed price not the accepted price if someone made an offer lower than that price but by viewing the purchase history you can see the actual price [url]http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidsLogin&item=332400102198&rmvSB=true[/url] Really though it's like any tool and if you don't learn how to use it, it's not going to work to your advantage. [ATTACH=full]701932[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]701935[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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