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.

[pjcdn2005]

It says that $42 was the best offer that was accepted.  I don’t think that they usually show the amount that the offer was accepted for but perhaps they did because $42 was also the starting price.

[cousinquiller]

Hum. That sounds like it makes sense, except for this: Where did the $160 figure come from? I thought perhaps IT was the "starting" price. Also, note although it's a Best Offer listing, I see "1 bid" on the page both before and after you open it. Listings in which a best offer was excepted don't have that. It's all very strange.