The EM Game Price Guide Is Live

A quick eBay service note:

Items that have sold via Best Offer may not currently be displaying accurate selling prices, due to an eBay API data feed bug, since mid-June. eBay is aware of the issue and apparently is planning to make repairs. However, this will take several weeks (boo!). We know this is frustrating to some of our visitors, and we apologize; however, this is out of our control. Thank you for hanging in there, and we hope eBay sorts this out soon.

In the mean time those games that do sell via made offers or best offers will be put on a backlog list and wont be presented in the average price index on my site until eBay fixes the problem. At that time I will update all the game sales. Those games that sell under straight line auctions are not effected by this bug and will continue to be recorded as usual. Thanks
 
Another service note..

The eBay offer outage has come to an end and apparently has been corrected. You are now able to see offers that were made of those auctions that sellers accepted as sold.

I have a little back log for about 17 EM pin units where offers were placed that sold and iam now able to document those in addition to the ones already recorded on the sales sheet for the month of August. So those numbers will be revised along with the updates to the average price listings for each additional pin title that was confirmed sold for that month. They should be finalized in the next day or two. Thanks
 
I'm trying to find the value on my 1969 Sega Grand Prix EM machine. Would you or someone else happen to know what the approximate value of a working Grand Prix is worth. PS it comes with the marquee as well but without the light fixture inside thanks for any tips!
 
I'm trying to find the value on my 1969 Sega Grand Prix EM machine. Would you or someone else happen to know what the approximate value of a working Grand Prix is worth. PS it comes with the marquee as well but without the light fixture inside thanks for any tips!

Hello, I have yet to see a Sega Grand Prix come to eBay let alone sell at auction since i started taking EM prices in 2012. Most Sega's are pretty rare at auction. At least on eBay they are. Since there are no sales recorded for this title as of yet, the only thing I can say is try following what current trending prices have been recorded from those games similar to Grand Prix that have sold for the upright Animated Driver's which is in the neighborhood of 740-750 dollars. The trending prices have been fairly stagnant for the past few years and only risen slightly in that time.

I generally do not see the animated drivers from some of the other manufacturer's rise above anymore than 750 and those were in pretty nice fully working conditions. They usually sold between 300 to 749 dollars. By my data, just not a lot of value in them right now but some of them seem to hold value ok. I don't think the missing light fixture would upset the cost that much. Cosmetic conditions and proper mechanical workings matter most when it comes to top dollar.
 
Prices Delayed

Just passing this along...

Attention: As of 5/19/20 the eBay servers that control the price reveal's to "Make Offer's" visible are currently down and those price pending sales will be delayed until further notice or until eBay gets it together. This is beyond my control. The sales for regular auctions and "Buy It Now's" will still be recorded as normal.
 
Quick note, eBay reveal servers are now back up again. Pricing to be documented as normal.
 
So yet another stupid move on eBay's part. They have just got rid of there old page template used to reveal best offer pricing, make offer, accepted offer etc etc. That was the easiest way to find out what was being paid for these auctions through Watchcount.com. However there is still one trick that can be used to find out the final sales price for best offer auctions. You must still use Watchcount.com to find the final price. And here are the steps.

Proceed to watchcount.com and place the ended auction ID number into there key word slot and click show me.

1) Click the "true? selling price on eBay" link in our search results (from a desktop browser, not mobile).

2) On that eBay view-item page, have your browser open the HTML source-code of that eBay page ("View Source", or similar, in the browser menu)

3) Use Control-F (Mac: Command-F) in your browser which should pop up the box to search. Then add the text taxExclusivePrice

4) Click next

5) What follows should be the true Best Offer sold-for price for fixed-price/BIN items

6) The BO price should be just to the right of the highlighted text "taxExclusivePrice"

Its just a few extra steps but worth it if you want to know the real price.
 
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Method above confirmed working. It's interesting, and not unusual... eBay displays stuff on a public page that isn't available through their APIs, third party sites, etc.
 
Update 5/5/21, Hello all, I have recently discovered the "Make Offer" or "Best Offer" prices are not being shown anymore due to a recent change with eBay policy which apparently started on May 1st. As some of you may or may not know I get those prices which were documented by Watchcount.com. Unfortunately there is no more back door tool to find the real hidden prices with the eBay auctions. A noticed about this action appears on Watchcount.com here http://www.watchcount.com/ebay-best-offer-sold-price.php#Aug2020upd8

What does this mean for my EM pricing guide ? It simply means I wont be able to document those game titles that ended with made offers being accepted by sellers. There are quite a few auctions that end with accepted offers and now that pricing information will be lost especially on those games that are rare and hardly ever see come to market.

Normal auctions and Buy It Now's will continue to be documented and recorded as usual. And to keep track of those false sales and those that are relisted will also continue to be corrected as they happen so that you know the real prices in the average price file are accurate. Thanks
 
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