can i locate an item that has been removed

[devon-pud]

I had a machine stolen last thursday night. I saw one remarkably like it for sale today 28/10/13 but before i acted it was removed. can i find out where it was and who seller was?

Thanks for any help.

[start-the-fire]

if ebay removed it no- if it was sold you can try advanced search

[cee-dee]

If the item was on the site for long enough, the page may have been cached.

Sometimes it's possible to recover such a page from google cache but you need to have at least some idea of the title of the page.

Another way is if you've not cleared your history/cookies/cache you should have the URL of the page and using that, there's a google tool to recover such a page from the google cache. It IS dependent on the page having been cached though.