My experience has been that Terapeak price/market research data is complete and utter nonsense. For example, I found multiple instances where Terrapeak's sales history repeatedly and consistently ignored multiple sale transactions made at much, much higher price points than the top of range as quoted by Terrapeak. How can I be certain of this you ask? Simple, it was my own sales history that was being ignored!
To be clear I'm not pointing to a few crazy over priced outliers here, these were sales that were priced at a level that consistently sold and sold well relative to that category. Furthermore, I know full well that many other sellers had been successfully selling similar products at prices 10 - 25 % higher than my own price points.
While it is completely reasonable in my view to disregard (ignore) both very low and very high outliers (completed sales) when calculating these price recommendations eBay (Terrapeak) takes this very much too far to the detriment of inexperienced sellers. Now, it could well be that their data shaping formula is not sophisticated, meaning the same formula ia applied to all categories of goods sold on the platform. If that is the case and I suspect it is, then it is unsurprising that the pricing tool in particular, and market research tools generally are largely useless for most categories.
