How to see sold items, and what they sold for, on Facebook Marketplace

Find your own sold listings

Everything you have listed, sold or not, lives in Your listings, in the Selling part of Marketplace.

On a computer:

1. Open Marketplace. From your Feed, click Marketplace in the left menu, or go straight to facebook.com/marketplace.
2. Click Selling in the left menu, then Your listings.
3. Filter by status. Choose the sold status in the filter at the top so only finished sales show. Each one keeps its photos, title and the last price you listed.

In the Facebook app:

1. Open Marketplace from the tab bar or the menu.
2. Tap the person icon at the top of Marketplace to reach your own Marketplace page.
3. Open your listings and switch the filter to sold.

Facebook moves these menus around between app versions, so if a label looks different, look for Selling or Your listings rather than an exact path.

A listing only counts as sold if you marked it sold, which Meta covers in its own help article. It is worth the two taps: the listing stops looking available and you keep a record. Deleting a listing removes it from Your listings, price and all. Your listings also shows the price you asked, not the price you accepted at the door, so if you flip Marketplace finds, a plain spreadsheet of what you actually got is the only accurate sales history you will have.

Find items you bought

What Facebook keeps depends on how you paid.

A shipped item bought through Facebook’s own checkout, where it is offered, stays on record in your account with the amount, and that order is what Facebook’s buyer protection works from.

A local pickup paid in cash, by e-Transfer, Zelle or Venmo leaves no purchase record on Facebook at all, because Facebook never saw the sale. Your only record is the Messenger chat and your payment app. Before any pickup, screenshot the listing, the agreed price and the seller’s profile: it is the evidence you will want if the item doesn’t work.

See listings you saved that have sold

This is the buyer’s trick most guides miss. Saving listings is the closest Facebook comes to letting you watch things sell.

Meta’s steps on a computer: from your Feed, click Marketplace in the left menu, then Buying, then Saved. In the app, your saved listings are on your Marketplace page, behind the person icon at the top.

When a seller marks a saved item pending or sold, it stays in your Saved list with that label instead of disappearing. So if you are pricing a road bike or a dining set, save five or six comparable listings over a couple of weeks. The ones that go Sold within days show where the real market is; the ones still there after a month were priced too high.

Pending means someone has agreed to buy and a pickup is being arranged. It falls through often. Our guide to what Pending and Sold mean covers what to do when something you want goes pending.

A saved listing that turns unavailable, or drops off with no Sold label, was usually deleted or expired rather than sold.

Can you see what something sold for?

No. Facebook Marketplace doesn’t publish sale prices, to buyers or anyone else. A listing marked sold shows the last price the seller asked, and that number can be wrong in three ways:

• The seller took less. Haggling is normal on Marketplace, the agreed price lives in a private chat, and almost nobody edits the price before marking an item sold.
• It never sold. People mark listings sold to stop the messages, after giving the item to a friend, or after selling it on Kijiji or eBay.
• The sold listings you can see are a skewed sample. Many sellers never mark anything, so their listings just expire.

The reason is simple: for a local sale, the money moves in cash or through a bank app, so Facebook never learns the final price. Treat a Sold label as a ceiling, what the item was offered at rather than what it fetched.

The best free stand-ins for sold prices

These are in rough order of how far to trust them.

eBay sold listings

eBay shows real completed sales, with the price and the date, for the last 90 days. For general used goods it is the nearest thing to a sold-price database.

1. Search eBay for the exact model. Use ebay.ca in Canada and ebay.com in the US so the prices and shipping match your market. “Dyson V11 Torque Drive” gets you useful results; “Dyson vacuum” doesn’t.
2. Turn on Sold items. On a computer, scroll the left column to Show only and tick Sold items. In the eBay app, tap Filter and turn on Sold items.
3. Read the green prices. Sold prices show in green. Skip the outliers at both ends and look at the middle of the last month’s sales.
4. Match the condition. Compare like with like: working or for parts, boxed or loose, with the charger or without.

Then adjust for a local sale. eBay prices carry shipping and selling fees, so the same thing sold for cash in a driveway usually goes for a bit less, and for dressers, treadmills and sofas eBay barely applies, because few people ship them. Sellers with eBay’s Seller Hub can go back three years with its Product research tool. Our Facebook Marketplace vs eBay comparison explains why prices differ.

Cards and LEGO: use a price guide

Collectibles have better data than eBay alone. For trading cards, PriceCharting builds its prices from sold listings for each card and grade, and TCGplayer’s Market Price comes from recent completed sales on TCGplayer. Both work in US dollars; PriceCharting has a currency selector. Check that every comparison uses the listing’s currency. Our Pokémon card price guide shows how to read each, and the graded cards guide covers slabs. For LEGO, BrickLink’s price guide lists six months of sales, new and used, for every set; see how to price used LEGO. With Sift on a computer, those links lead a card or LEGO listing’s details, one click away.

Cars: use a value guide

A car marked sold tells you even less than a sofa, because the price hinges on kilometres, trim and history. Use Canadian Black Book in Canada or Kelley Blue Book in the US for a value range, then adjust for the car’s history. The fair-price guide has the full car check, and buying a used car on Marketplace covers the paperwork.

Everything else: compare asking prices

For furniture, appliances and anything bulky, the best data is Marketplace itself. Search the exact model, set a radius you would actually drive, and note the asking prices of ten or more listings. The middle of that spread is what the market asks; real sales land a little under it. Listings at the low end that go pending within a day show you where the floor sits.

Track a listing until it sells

If you are in no hurry, the most accurate price for a local item is one you watch sell. Save a few comparable listings, note each price with the date, and check weekly. With Sift Pro, track the listing instead and get an alert when its price drops. When one goes Pending or Sold, the last price you recorded is the closest you will get to its sale price, and the real figure was probably a little lower.

A listing that disappears may have been reposted, which gives it a fresh date and wipes the crossed-out price, so search the title before you count it as sold; see how reposts reset the history. Slow sellers count too: a table that sat for six weeks at $300 tells you the market for it is below $300.

Use what you learn to negotiate

Sale data gives you a number the seller can check, which makes an offer sound fair rather than cheeky: “Similar ones sold for around $180 on eBay last month. Could you do $170 if I pick up tonight?” Our guide to negotiating on Facebook Marketplace has wording sellers answer, and the lowball offers guide covers where a low offer turns rude.

Price history and sold-price links with Sift

Sift is a free browser extension for Facebook Marketplace that runs in Chrome, Edge and Brave on a computer, with no account and about a minute of setup. Only the buyer and seller know what an item really sold for, so Sift puts the next-best evidence on every listing.

• Sift remembers every price it sees. Point at a price-drop badge for the price history: when Sift first saw the listing and each cut since. If a listing you were following goes Sold or Pending, that history holds its last asking price.
• When a seller deletes a listing and posts the same item again, a ↻ Reposted badge shows when Sift first saw it and at what price.
• Sift compares each price with similar listings. Cheap ones get a Below typical badge, overpriced ones get Above typical, and a price far below similar listings gets a red Very low price flag.
• Every listing’s details card has a Sold on eBay link that opens eBay’s sold and completed search for the listing’s title, on your country’s eBay (ebay.ca for Kijiji). Card and LEGO listings put PriceCharting, TCGplayer or BrickLink first.
• Is this a good deal? One press gives an AI second opinion on the asking price: a verdict, the reasons and a fair offer, with a message to the seller ready to copy.
• Price drop alerts with Sift Pro: track a listing and Sift tells you, on your computer or your phone, when its price drops.
• Hide sold and pending listings is on by default and mostly tidies your Saved page. Switch it off when you want to see which saved listings sold, or click the pill in the corner to peek at what was hidden.

Sift’s history starts the first time it sees a listing, so the more you browse a category, the more evidence you have when it is time to offer.