How to see sold listings on eBay, and what the results leave out.

1. Sign in to your eBay account. When we checked, a signed out visitor who chose the sold option was sent to the sign in page.¹
2. Search for the item with the words a seller would use: brand, model, size and color.
3. Choose the sold option from the search filters, then scan the results for items that ended with a sale.
4. Open a few results to check condition, what was included and the shipping charge.

The exact wording and position of filters change over time, so look for the sold option in the filters on your own screen. eBay says its completed listings results include only listings that ended sold in the previous 90 days.²

• Only 90 days. A rare item may have one sale in that window, or none.
• Best Offer prices. Regular sold search does not display the price a Best Offer was accepted at, so a listed price can overstate what the buyer paid.¹
• Mixed items. Lots, parts and different conditions can sit in one results page. Compare like with like, as covered in reading sold prices correctly.

eBay's Product research, which many sellers still call Terapeak, searches the last 3 years of eBay sales data and shows the price an item actually sold for even when a Best Offer was accepted.² eBay says sellers with access to Seller Hub can use it from the Research tab and from the mobile apps.² In the eBay app, eBay's seller update says you need at least one active listing or a sale in the last 90 days.³

Active listings are asking prices. Some are priced high and never sell, which is why a page of active listings can make an item look worth more than it is. Sold listings are completed sales. The ratio of the two is the sell through rate, and you can work it out from the counts with the sell through rate calculator.

Put the sold price into the eBay fee and profit calculator with shipping, supplies and your cost, or use the max buy price calculator to work backward from the price. Plan the packing cost with the shipping supplies guide. If you are standing in a store, the barcode scanning guide is the faster route.

Strooply takes a photo, identifies the item and pulls live eBay listings for the same thing, so you have comps to compare without typing the search. Its sold-price figure is labeled: live eBay data when recent sales are available, saved data shown with its age, or an AI estimate when there is no sold history. An AI estimate is a guess from the item details, not a record of sales, and it can come back unavailable. See how Strooply works.