Comments on: Average used iPod price tracker?

Question: Average used iPod price tracker?

teg — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:43:17 -0800

Is there a website that tracks the average selling price of used items? I'm particularly interested in used iPod prices, but something more general would be nice too. The price they actually go for would be more helpful than the original asking price. All I've been able to find are paid services for eBay sellers, but they seem like overkill for my needs.

By: PFL

PFL — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:52:22 -0800

I would search EBay completed listings.

By: Dee Xtrovert

Dee Xtrovert — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:54:13 -0800

Or used items on Amazon.com, which gives you a range of prices from sellers of used goods.

By: kbanas

kbanas — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:55:56 -0800

I agree with PFL. Whenever I'm curious about something like that, I just do an advanced search on eBay and specify "completed listings only"... it usually does the trick.

By: nitsuj

nitsuj — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:55:59 -0800

Seconding the eBay completed listings search. You have to have an account to search it, but totally worth it if you need to get a rough idea of how much something is worth.

By: unixrat

unixrat — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:17:11 -0800

Yup, eB completed listings.

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:18:33 -0800

eBay completed listings is great for this.

By: teg

teg — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:24:47 -0800

Thanks. That's certainly good enough for my purposes, to figure out how much I should be charging. Still, if anyone knows of something that'll just show the current average, and maybe a graph of past trends, I'd appreciate it. (Wouldn't it be cool to see your gadgets losing value in real time?)

By: -harlequin-

-harlequin- — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:53:35 -0800

Here is a site graphing the average price of ipods sold on craigslight over time

It will graph all sorts of other craigslist data too, over different timeframes and for different localities.

By: Chuckles

Chuckles — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:24:19 -0800

Technically, there is no way to track selling prices on craigslist, rather it is a list of asking prices.

I've often wondered what Ebay Marketplace Research and similar licensed services are like, but I've never looked into them. 90 days of past auctions isn't a lot of extra history though..