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eBay Price Questions

by Long Beach Nathan
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Hi, hopefully I posted this in the correct section.

Ok, so I've been looking at completed listings on eBay and I've noticed that some of the same items were listed as having been sold for quite a bit more than what they regularly go for. I've been assuming that most of the time this is really just people trying to push the prices up by selling themselves their own items.

Okay my question is, is there any way I can tell when this is happening and when those items are really being sold? I'm trying to do a little market research and I want to be sure all the info I'm getting is accurate. I am aware that making any money at all using eBay has gotten very difficult and crowded, I'm just trying to see if I can make a few bucks now and then. Thanks, people.
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  • Profile picture of the author LegitIncomes
    Originally Posted by Long Beach Nathan View Post

    Hi, hopefully I posted this in the correct section.

    Ok, so I've been looking at completed listings on eBay and I've noticed that some of the same items were listed as having been sold for quite a bit more than what they regularly go for. I've been assuming that most of the time this is really just people trying to push the prices up by selling themselves their own items.

    Okay my question is, is there any way I can tell when this is happening and when those items are really being sold? I'm trying to do a little market research and I want to be sure all the info I'm getting is accurate. I am aware that making any money at all using eBay has gotten very difficult and crowded, I'm just trying to see if I can make a few bucks now and then. Thanks, people.
    I think that would be pretty hard to figure out. Because if eBay knew it was going on, their auctions would be cancelled, along with their eBay accounts too.

    You could do some "investigative digging" on your own, look at locations of buyer and seller, look at multiple auctions over time (did they buy more than 1 item that was higher priced than most other similar items), and make some assumptions, but I think a "best guess" answer is all you could really get...nothing concrete.

    I think...looking at the completed listings...perhaps throwing out the highest and lowest, and just using the average selling price among the others would be your best bet.
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  • Profile picture of the author Long Beach Nathan
    Ok, thanks. I was kind of thinking of something similar, but didn't know if there might be some other info available. Apparently, you can no longer find out the location of the winning bidder. However, I've been looking at things like bid history and sure enough, you see some crazy things that don't seem to make any sense. I guess if I see things like a bunch of accounts with very little or no feedback doing the bidding, that could be one way to tell something's up. Also, I've seen winning bidders on items where the price ended ridiculously high where the bid history for last 30 days shows a TON of activity and all in the same categories, which seems to me that no normal person who was just shopping for something would do. Anybody else have any additional suggestions, please let me know.
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  • Profile picture of the author gowireless99
    Either it is ebay or Amazon, price depends on supply and demand. If too many people sell the same product it is going to drive the price down. If you have a product that nobody sells and is in good demand, then you are lucky - you can get more price
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