Ebay Question: Completed Auction Results

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Posted By: Scott 

Does anyone know how to search for completed Ebay Auction Results? It seems like the usual "Completed Search" tab on Search page is gone.

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Posted By: Tom Boblitt

current auctions for whatever the criteria is and on the left hand side toolbar, you will see a link for 'Completed Auctions'. That seems to work for me. Then just bookmark it..........

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Posted By: jay behrens

It's on the basic search page now. If you keep reading further down the page on the search options, you wind an unassuming little box you need check.

I can't believe that searching completed auctions was such a little used function that is needed to be relagated to almost nonexistance. I use it all the time.

Wonder if it has anything to do with Powersellers not wnating people to be able to track past auctions, prices and other information that might hurt their bottom line.

Jay

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Posted By: Jeff S

Jay offers one potential reason why eBay has relegated completed auctions to obscurity.

Here's another: it's fairly common practice for deals to be made post-auction (that is, without eBay getting their final value fee), and many of those deals result from someone finding a completed item that got no bids.

If people don't search completed items, they can't make offers to sellers, so sellers have to re-list, which ultimately means more listing fees and more final value fees. And, while we're at it, less bandwidth usage due to search functions.