Why the Error in Price Given for a Sold Item

[cousinquiller]

I have a question about the sold price that ebay is showing for an item. The title includes the words “Singing Birds In Brass Cage Circa 1900s” and the item # is 163637324626. When I bring it up in a list of Sold items on ebay.com it says it sold for US$160, but when I open the listing it says it sold for one bid of US$42. Why the discrepancy? I'm researching values and if I hadn't opened the listing, would have thought the value of this item was $160. Thanks.

[cousinquiller]

To lady.stark: Thanks, but the ebay support person could see the entire history of the listing and it wasn't listed with a Best Offer. And I could tell that it wasn't because items that close with a best offer have a line through the price and when you open the listing, ebay doesn't post what the item sold for. (For example, if it was listed at $100, when you open the listing it says that it sold for $100, but that's not the case because ebay doesn't divulge what the accepted offer was.)