How to check eBay sold comps in 2026 (free, fast, and without opening a second tab)
The old way to check sold prices on eBay is slow and breaks your flow. Here are three methods, ranked from worst to best, and why a Chrome extension wins for daily resellers.
If you resell on eBay, the single most important number you look up is what an item actually sold for recently. That’s your market median. Everything downstream — buying price, list price, net profit — is a fraction of that number.
But eBay makes checking it harder than it should be. Here are the three methods resellers use in 2026, ranked from worst to best.
Method 1: Manual “Sold items” filter (slow, but free)
The built-in way. Search on eBay for the item, click Filter, check the Sold items box, hit Apply. You get a page of recent sold listings.
Problems:
- Adds 4-8 clicks to every deal check.
- You have to manually scan the prices and mentally compute a median.
- Breaks your browsing flow — you’re now on a different URL.
- No filter for “same condition as mine” — you see everything mixed together.
- Doesn’t account for eBay fees or your own shipping when computing whether to buy.
This works if you check one item a day. If you check 50 items a day it’s a 40-minute tax on your sourcing time.
Method 2: Third-party tools like Terapeak (paid, decent)
eBay’s own research tool, Terapeak, is included with an eBay Store subscription. It shows sell-through rate, average price, and trend data over a longer window.
Pros:
- Deeper historical data than the free sold filter.
- Trend analysis for slow-moving categories.
Cons:
- Requires an eBay Store subscription (starts at $4.95/month, most resellers are on Basic at $27.95/month).
- You have to log in and switch contexts every time.
- Still doesn’t do the “is this listing I’m looking at right now a good deal?” math.
Terapeak is useful for trend research, not for instant deal checking.
Method 3: Chrome extension overlay (fast, free, beats both)
The modern way. A browser extension reads the listing page you’re already on, queries eBay’s public Browse API for sold comps in the background, and shows you a verdict pill directly on the listing.
My Deal Verifier is one of these. It’s free forever and works on every eBay listing without switching tabs.
What it shows on each listing:
- A color-coded buyer verdict: Great Deal / Good / Fair / High / Overpriced, with the dollar savings vs. median sold price.
- A reseller verdict: Good Buy / Borderline / Pass, with net profit and ROI after 13% eBay fees.
- The actual sold comps it used, so you can audit the math.
No clicks. No second tab. No subscription. Works on search results pages (per-tile badges) and on individual item pages (floating overlay).
The math behind “median sold price”
All three methods are really doing the same thing: computing a median. But the quality of that median depends on three things:
- How many comps you include. 3 sales is noise. 30 sales is signal.
- How closely matched the comps are. Same model number, same condition, same variant.
- How recent they are. A 6-month-old price is not a 6-day-old price.
My Deal Verifier uses eBay’s Browse API which returns currently active and recently sold listings scoped to a rolling 90-day window by default, with a match-quality filter you can tighten or loosen.
The bottom line
If you’re checking more than 5 listings a day, installing a browser extension pays for itself in the first hour. There’s no longer a reason to click through to the Sold items filter every time.
Install My Deal Verifier free →
This guide was written by a working reseller for working resellers. Part of the mydealHQ toolkit.