Search for Items Sold

[Posbear]

It's an old subject that repeatedly gets asked for and ignored, but, can we please have a proper facility to search by items sold.
i know there is a very restricted one on the front page but that's all but useless for research.

eBay do it,
Delcampe do it.

now we need eBid to do it.

If you are not willing to do it then please explain to your members why not.

[FBNeNotes]

Ouch
Guess why it is not on eBid.

[BordersBargains]

Why?

[FBNeNotes]

Why?

That is what is being asked.

[BordersBargains]

It doesn't really bother me, as long as I get some sales I'm happy

I would be nice to see some stats though

[HaleysComics]

at one point in time people were able to search for closed listings and the results would have a green check mark if it sold & a red X if it did not sell. After people were complaining that things didn't sell on ebid & pointed out all the red X's that showed in the results, ebid did away with it that option. You can still search closed listings, but now you can not tell if anything sold or not unless you click on every listing one at time, which is very time consuming.

[johnwash1]

at one point in time people were able to search for closed listings and the results would have a green check mark if it sold & a red X if it did not sell. After people were complaining that things didn't sell on ebid & pointed out all the red X's that showed in the results, ebid did away with it that option. You can still search closed listings, but now you can not tell if anything sold or not unless you click on every listing one at time, which is very time consuming.

Some kinds of items do sell well here, according to sellers with 1,000s of feedback (gained here, not imported). So why not be transparent with those who can be bothered to research the site in depth?

[FirstGreenIsGold]

I know that there will be some forum posters who say that this is eBid and not the other selling websites ...

But ...

I would really like to see a search of closed / sold / unsold items function available here.

We see sold items on the front page, but the search of sold items in the advanced search is useless, in my opinion.

[HaleysComics]

I agree Johnwash1

[johnwash1]

I know that there will be some forum posters who say that this is eBid and not the other selling websites ...

If there are such posters then their logic is flawed. This isn't about giving the site a unique flavour, it's about making useful info accessible. When I have something to sell I want to get an idea of what price it might fetch, whether there's competition for this kind of item.

By concealing this it just makes it look as if the site owners are ashamed of those stats. It reinforces the beliefs of those who allege that this is just a site where all the owners care about is conning people into paying 49.99 for lifetime subs.