What's It Sold For

Secondhand pricing from sold listings

What it sold for beats what it's listed for

What's It Sold For teaches one method: price secondhand items from what close matches sold for in the last 90 days, never from what sellers are asking.

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What's It Sold For is a free guide to pricing used and secondhand items from what they sold for. It covers how to find sold listings on eBay, which sales count as comparable, how to read the median and the outliers, what to do when nothing has sold, and how to price a garage sale. The team behind FlowLister, an AI eBay listing tool, publishes it, and the method works with or without that tool.

How do you price something from what it sold for?

  1. Identify the item exactly, including generation, size and completeness.
  2. Search sold listings only. On eBay that's the Sold items filter, and it covers the last 90 days. Active listings run high because the correctly priced ones already sold.
  3. Collect eight to fifteen comparable sales.
  4. Open the highest and the lowest and find out why they are there.
  5. Take the median of what remains, then decide where to sit relative to it.
  6. Write down your floor before any offer arrives.

That is the whole method. Everything else on this site is a longer answer to one of those six steps, or to the awkward cases: an item with almost no sold history, or a whole house to clear at a garage sale.

How do I find out what something sold for?
Search the exact item on eBay and turn on the Sold items filter, or tick Sold items in Advanced Search. eBay shows matching sales from the last 90 days. For older sales, and for the real price when a seller accepted an offer, eBay's free Product Research tool covers 3 years.
How do I find out what my item is worth?
Your item is worth about what close matches sold for recently, in the same condition. Collect 8 to 15 sold listings from the last 90 days, set aside the highest and the lowest, and take the median. To start from a photo instead, Worth It, a feature of FlowLister (the team that publishes this site), gives an eBay value built from recent sold listings.
Why should I not price based on what others are asking?
Because asking prices are biased upward by survivorship. Items priced correctly sell and vanish from the active pool, so what remains visible is disproportionately the prices that did not work.
What if there are no sold comps for my item?
Check first that it's a search problem rather than a real absence: search the model number alone, and check eBay's Product Research, which covers 3 years of sales. Then use proxy comps: the same item in another condition, an adjacent model, or a peer brand. Failing that, start high and step the price down on a fixed schedule.

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Disclosure What's It Sold For comes from the team that builds FlowLister, an AI tool that turns your photos into a complete eBay listing and prices it from sold listings, with the sales behind the number shown. It's AI and it misses things, which is why every listing waits for your OK before it goes up on eBay. Read this site as a guide from a tool maker with a stake in the topic, not an independent review.