View Full Version : How do you know what stuff actually sells for on ebay?
Since my Battletoads & Double Dragon search, I've noticed that alot of sellers on ebay are asking around $45 (which is what is in line with my local guy's pricing). But the thing is, this is what they are asking, how do I know what these things are really going for? I'm not seeing anyone bid on these things. Do these sellers just keep putting these things up for bid till someone bites? How is there even a consensus formed on what to price things?
JohnnyA
03-05-2013, 09:55 AM
Change your search to search for sold items only. I think you need to be signed in to do this. When your search results come back, at the top of the results, in bold it will show that are you looking at active listings. Immediately to the right of this is the link to look at sold items.
Natty Bumppo
03-05-2013, 10:04 AM
You can also put items up that are actually being auctioned (rather than an often wishful thinking buy it now price) on your watch list - they will stay there after the auction is closed and you can see what it actually went for - also factoring in whatever shipping charges there were.
Cornelius
03-05-2013, 10:48 AM
Change your search to search for sold items only. I think you need to be signed in to do this. When your search results come back, at the top of the results, in bold it will show that are you looking at active listings. Immediately to the right of this is the link to look at sold items.
Yeah, this is the way to go for a quick estimate. If you want a better picture of prices, search 'completed' listings rather than sold. That way you'll see (in red) all the listings that ended without being sold, and can see how people may list something 10 times before it sells at their price. So you'll know that price is very high.
recorderdude
03-05-2013, 12:37 PM
I usually compare the ratio of sold listings for an item to unsold listings before I even list it, if it's not something all too valuable. If more than half of them listed cheap don't sell, it's likely not worth listing the item on ebay in the first place and better off to throw it in a lot with other games it's unwise to sell alone or just sell it IRL.
For your situation, though, you're more or less looking to buy a more pricey game, which is battletoads and double dragon.
As great as that is, if you're worried about paying that much, just get the genesis or SNES version. The cheapest buy it nows sit around $17 for genny and $25 for SNES, and you can get them for half the price if you jump for a low-starting auction and get lucky. NES collectors are way more rabid, so good luck getting the NES version of BTDD for a fair price.
Orion Pimpdaddy
03-06-2013, 07:40 AM
Do the search as you did, but then click "completed listings."
Ok, I figured out the completed listings, however I'mnot sure what the red & green prices mean. I'm figuring that the green means the item sold and the red means that it expired. However I see red prices that have been bid on, so I'm assuming in these situations the seller had a cap on what he would accept as a price and none of these bids met that price? Is this correct?
Tanooki
03-06-2013, 10:59 AM
RED=No sale GREEN=Sold
Sold Only is a great start because if a lot of titles recently sold you can see a green average on that high/low level it will go for and just exclude anomalies or condition hurt titles. If you have something more scarce it's best to use completed because you can see what it failed for, what it went for and when going back months instead of a week or two since ebay keeps longer records when they have few to post.
Yep, like people have said just check on completed auction prices for the past few months to see what a game is really worth.
EBay tends to be full of ridiculously priced BIN longshots, hoping some sucker with money will get tired of waiting and pay the exorbitant price. Real auctions come closer to dictating current values.
You can also look things up at www.pricecharting.com, but it's not always that accurate.