Ebay best offer... two tricks to see

[rainier2004]

Originally Posted by xcgrammer

not sure I get what you mean "to see best offers." I tried it and it did not let me see what amount people had offered.

Im thinking this refers to BO accepted

[npa589]

Originally Posted by rainier2004

Im thinking this refers to BO accepted

Bingo!

Also, there is another way that has recently been discussed on the board. Simply put, change "com" to "fr", which is eBay France. I tried it as of a couple days ago, and it still was revealing the accepted offer. My guess, however, is that this glitch, or whatever one would like to refer to it as, will be changed (caught) before the one Andy has shared. It used to work with ebay.ca, but that was caught a while ago.

Edited to add a thank you to Andy for sharing some other work-arounds!

[bobbyw8469]

What valid reason does Ebay give to not let buyers see the BEST OFFER price???

[pawpawdiv9]

the fr swap has been working for me and still does.

[bn2cardz]

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

the fr swap has been working for me and still does.

The FR works, but it has been spotty. Also it will change some parts to french. It is certainly still a work around, but as fast as all the other countries have disappeared I thought I would list two more that I had found worked this morning. The second one has been better for me as I can now see a full search instead of opening each auction.

[auggiedoggy]

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

the fr swap has been working for me and still does.

Vive la France!

[Clydewally]

Thanks

[texmrsport]

The other workaround to see accepted best offers.
Click "See original listing" next to the headline
Click "print" which is located to the right of the description header.

[rainier2004]

Originally Posted by bobbyw8469

What valid reason does Ebay give to not let buyers see the BEST OFFER price???

Im sure its b/c it wasn't broke so they had to fix it?

[pencil1974]

Thanks, thats a nice workaround there. I was upset with the quit the .ca but this works very nicely.

[sports-rings]

Great information! Thanks!

Ebay does this to "protect" sellers. If buyers know too much, they will gain an advantage and prices on the auction site will come down.

[CardTarget]

It's for items where sellers have 100 of them for sale and accept best offers. Any smart bidder would look at their previous auctions to see the lowest price they have accepted and offer that.

It's irrelevant for one-off's like sports cards but eBay can't separate the two.

[MooseDog]

There is an even easier way.

1) When looking at "Sold Listings" and you see a line through the green price and "Best Offer Accepted" underneath;

2) Click on the item title, then on the next screen after the item title at the top you see in small letters "See Original Listing", click on that.

3) This will bring you to the original listing page. Directly underneat the "Seller Information Box and directly to the the right of the "Description" and "Shipping Information" tabs you'll see "Print | Report Item.

4) Click on print and an pop-up window will display the item description with the actual sold price.

[vintagehofrookies]

Thank you for sharing!

[botn]

Originally Posted by bobbyw8469

What valid reason does Ebay give to not let buyers see the BEST OFFER price???

Probably for the same reason that people on their BST threads remove the price they were asking for their cards after they sell them.