Number of sales by competitor

If a competitor has a listing showing 100 items sold is it possible to see time-frame over which they were sold?

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@wiremeshshop it is still possible but it's not obvious how to any more as ebay decided a few months ago to hide the link which used to appear on all listings. However, the url still works, you just need to know what it is and then you can apply it to any listing using the item number.

 

The url you need is https://www.ebay.co.uk/bin/purchaseHistory?item=ItemNumberHere and it'll work for any listing whether it's your own or someone else's. Eg, item number 394713170792 has the purchase history page https://www.ebay.co.uk/bin/purchaseHistory?item=394713170792. The purchase history will show all sales within the last 90 days up to a maximum of 100 sales. So if more than 100 have sold in that timeframe, it'll show the most recent 100 sales.

 

Where best offer or other discount deals have been used, you won't see what the actual price was unless it's your own item but it still gives you an idea. If it's your own item, you'll see the price and the buyer id and location.

 

Best offers show like this one: https://www.ebay.co.uk/bin/purchaseHistory?item=395102545902 and items that sold as part of a promotion such as buy one, get one at x% off, look like this one: https://www.ebay.co.uk/bin/purchaseHistory?item=395037047016. (The examples are all from our own listings on our other id where we have multi quantities.)

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I think it used to be possible, but I am fairly sure you can't any more.
You can't even really tell from looking at the seller's sold listings either, as that shows items that were sold today through to months ago in a random order, when specifically choosing most recent with the pull down box.


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You can search sold items in terrapeek, find a relevant term that brings up the relevant

item then look at last month, last quarter. Last year to get a good feeling.   Not sure there's a way yo ho beyond twelve months anymore.

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Used to be possible to see it all, including the prices the items went for, in an easy to view list. That was interesting sometimes.

 

Sadly no more. Now it's just another thing eBay hides, for whatever reason I don't know.

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@wiremeshshop it is still possible but it's not obvious how to any more as ebay decided a few months ago to hide the link which used to appear on all listings. However, the url still works, you just need to know what it is and then you can apply it to any listing using the item number.

 

The url you need is https://www.ebay.co.uk/bin/purchaseHistory?item=ItemNumberHere and it'll work for any listing whether it's your own or someone else's. Eg, item number 394713170792 has the purchase history page https://www.ebay.co.uk/bin/purchaseHistory?item=394713170792. The purchase history will show all sales within the last 90 days up to a maximum of 100 sales. So if more than 100 have sold in that timeframe, it'll show the most recent 100 sales.

 

Where best offer or other discount deals have been used, you won't see what the actual price was unless it's your own item but it still gives you an idea. If it's your own item, you'll see the price and the buyer id and location.

 

Best offers show like this one: https://www.ebay.co.uk/bin/purchaseHistory?item=395102545902 and items that sold as part of a promotion such as buy one, get one at x% off, look like this one: https://www.ebay.co.uk/bin/purchaseHistory?item=395037047016. (The examples are all from our own listings on our other id where we have multi quantities.)

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Awesome, thank you.

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