Sold prices vs asking prices

Every scan shows two lists, Recent sales and For sale now. They look similar and they mean very different things.

Recently sold

Recent sales are completed sales: what a buyer actually paid, with the real price attached and a link to the listing. Your suggested price is built on these, because a sale is proof that someone paid that amount.

Currently listed

Listings for sale now are active listings with asking prices. Nobody has paid those numbers yet. Asking prices are often higher than what items really sell for, sometimes much higher, because sellers can list at any price and wait.

Why we show both

The gap between the two is useful information. When active listings are asking noticeably more than items are selling for, that gets flagged right on your result. It usually means the category is full of hopeful pricing, and undercutting the askers still leaves you above the real sold average.

Reading competition and how fast it sells

Alongside the two lists you get Competition (how many are for sale right now against how many sell) and How fast it sells (the share of similar listings that sell within about a month). Use them like this:

1. It sells fast and few are listed: you can price toward the high end and wait.
2. It sells slowly and a wall of listings is up: price toward the low end if you want the money now.
3. Somewhere in between: the suggested price is your safe default.

Pricing strategy in practice

• Use the low price for quick sales in saturated markets.
• Use the high price for rare items when you can be patient.
• Read the recent sales themselves before pricing anything valuable. Condition, completeness, and variant all move the number, and you can see which of those the sold items had.

Checking the sales yourself

Recent sales include clickable links, so you can open the actual sale and confirm it matches your item. That is the fastest sanity check when a price looks too good to be true, and it is worth doing on anything you are about to spend real money on.