Are you hesitating to buy an insect because you don’t know if it’s at market price? You don’t know what the maximum bid should be on eBay because you’re not familiar with market prices?
InsectNet is here for you with this new tool: the Insect Price Checker.
We recorded over 10,000 insect sales on eBay since 2021. Search for your species and it will give you an idea of past prices on eBay.
History of completed sales on eBay
| Date | Item Name | Price (USD) | Price with tax (USD) |
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Methodology
Important to understand how the tool works to better understand its results.
This tool :
– uses completed sales only : if an insect is overpriced on eBay and not sold, it won’t appear here.
– shows insects from all ebay sites (ebay.com, ebay.co.uk, ebay.de…)
– the level of tax depends of several factors (the seller country tax, your country tax…). In average, we see a 25% tax on items we have purchased ourselves so we apply this +25% rate in the file.
– uses a fixed conversion rate between euro and dollar, and this rate may vary from month to month.
This tool :
– doesn’t show all sold insects on eBay (we can’t find them all). But we have recorded more than 10,000 sales so it should be useful for you.
– doesn’t show insects with a final value below $25 as knowing their market price is not key (so we focus on more expensive insects).
– eBay erases old items. Clicking on them :
. will show you the right item if recent
. will show you a similar item or a “Not found” page if older than 2 months.
Note that price highly depends of quality ! If you see a Parnassius autocrator sold at $10, it doesn’t mean that the market price is $10. It means that this Parnassius autocrator was very damaged and sold at a cheap price.
