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Is it that everyone are getting things for that price? Or just that someone got a good deal? Because for sure you'll occasionally come across a good deal that's outside the norm.
Also remember that most listings on Trademe are the price that isn't selling. Sometimes I spend months adding things to a wish list and seeing what price they actually sell for (I'm not sure of an easy way to search past sales). But this only works if there are lots of listings.
Not sure. But I often see people recommending buying a second hand dell optiplex or similar for home servers, and it doesn't seem to make economical sense here. But don't have any objective data to offer, just an impression.
Interesting point about trademe listing vs actual sale prices.
The listings vs sales price is talked about a lot with regard to ebay, but as I understand it ebay lets you search past sales whereas trademe doesn't.
You actually can search expired listings! It's on the old site so no knowing how long it'll work, and it can only search 45 days back.
https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/AdvancedSearch.aspx
Aren't expired listings the ones that didn't sell? I'm not aware of a way to search items that did sell.
It definitely includes sold listings - put in "$1 reserve" and you'll see both sold and unsold!
Oh nice it does! It seems the expired without selling items far exceed sold items, which kinda helps my point that you should ignore asking prices and only look at selling prices.