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?
Price an item from what close matches sold for: identify it, search sold listings, collect comparable sales, open the highest and lowest, take the median, and write down your floor.
- Identify the item exactly, including generation, size and completeness.
- 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.
- Collect eight to fifteen comparable sales.
- Open the highest and the lowest and find out why they are there.
- Take the median of what remains, then decide where to sit relative to it.
- 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?
How do I find out what my item is worth?
Why should I not price based on what others are asking?
What if there are no sold comps for my item?
Pricing guides
How to see sold items on eBay, and read what you find
The Sold filter on the website and app, the 90-day limit, Product Research, and what the list hides.
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The 10% to 20% rule, a sourced price guide, and the few items worth checking on eBay first.
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Why the median wins, how to spot real outliers, and what a wide spread means.
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A schedule that avoids both panic discounting and listings that sit forever.
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Proxy comps, floors, the descending-price method, and when to walk away.
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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 publishes to eBay through eBay's official Trading API, using eBay's own sign-in, and never sees your eBay password. Read this site as a guide from a tool maker with a stake in the topic, not an independent review.