Error on ebay auction prices

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weare138
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I was looking at these recent EB sales, and the one on 2021-04-21 and 2021-04-01 are both way under value of the original price. How does this information get populated? Is it a bug, or is someone manually making a mistake when entering prices?

2021-04-21 ($1262.09) should be $1,601.99 USD
2021-04-01 ($1255.50) should be $1,935.88 USD

The other 2 older ebay auctions seem accurate.

Any feedback would be appreciated.
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theperfecttree
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Thu Apr 22, 2021 3:16 pm

weare138 wrote:
Thu Apr 22, 2021 2:32 pm
https://expressobeans.com/members/detai ... 73/history

I was looking at these recent EB sales, and the one on 2021-04-21 and 2021-04-01 are both way under value of the original price. How does this information get populated? Is it a bug, or is someone manually making a mistake when entering prices?

2021-04-21 ($1262.09) should be $1,601.99 USD
2021-04-01 ($1255.50) should be $1,935.88 USD

The other 2 older ebay auctions seem accurate.

Any feedback would be appreciated.
hi there, thanks for the question. Expressobeans is part of a referral program that eBay runs to direct traffic to their site. Through this program EB.com has a direct link/access to eBay's backend sales database. This means that eBay feeds this site the actual sales price, something that is not visible on eBay.com anymore. It's common for eBay listings to accept best offers below the original asking price, however eBay no longer shares that information publicly on their site. In both cases the Indiana Jones set were listed at a higher price than what they ended up selling for, as far as I can tell.

Let me know if you were the buyer or seller and can confirm that the higher price is accurate.
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Thu Apr 22, 2021 3:30 pm

theperfecttree wrote:
Thu Apr 22, 2021 3:16 pm
weare138 wrote:
Thu Apr 22, 2021 2:32 pm
https://expressobeans.com/members/detai ... 73/history

I was looking at these recent EB sales, and the one on 2021-04-21 and 2021-04-01 are both way under value of the original price. How does this information get populated? Is it a bug, or is someone manually making a mistake when entering prices?

2021-04-21 ($1262.09) should be $1,601.99 USD
2021-04-01 ($1255.50) should be $1,935.88 USD

The other 2 older ebay auctions seem accurate.

Any feedback would be appreciated.
hi there, thanks for the question. Expressobeans is part of a referral program that eBay runs to direct traffic to their site. Through this program EB.com has a direct link/access to eBay's backend sales database. This means that eBay feeds this site the actual sales price, something that is not visible on eBay.com anymore. It's common for eBay listings to accept best offers below the original asking price, however eBay no longer shares that information publicly on their site. In both cases the Indiana Jones set were listed at a higher price than what they ended up selling for, as far as I can tell.

Let me know if you were the buyer or seller and can confirm that the higher price is accurate.
Ha, addressed this in the Database Corrections - was able to correct one but the other was a Best Offer I was able to find, that one is accurate.
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