Research the market price for one part

Use Market Research to find what a single part is worth on eBay, and turn that figure into a list price that hits your margin after fees.

Market Research tells you what a part is worth on eBay before you set a price. You give GridX Connect a part number and its brand or vehicle make; it searches live eBay listings for that part, removes the listings that are actually a different part, and shows a suggested price with the clean comparable listings sitting behind it.

Add your cost and a target margin and the page does more. It works out a Recommended list price that hits your margin after eBay fees, then itemises those fees, your gross profit and your total landed cost underneath.

What Market Research does not do is change anything. It is guidance only. It never edits an item, never overwrites a price and never sends anything to eBay. You carry the figure across yourself — by typing it into the item's edit form, or later with the bulk Price action on Inventory.

> [!NOTE] > Market Research sits in the left sidebar and is open to every signed-in user. Sellers also look for it as "price check", "comps", "part value" or "what is my part worth" — it is all this one page. The magnifier icon on Inventory rows reaches the same data faster, but that route depends on your plan.

Before you start

The part number you want priced — the manufacturer number for aftermarket parts, or the OE number for OEM and salvage parts.
The part's brand (aftermarket) or its vehicle make (OEM and salvage). The search will not run without one of these.
Optional but worth having: your cost in USD and the margin you want. These unlock the recommended-price and fee breakdown.
If you do not know the cost, you can tick Let GridX estimate cost instead and GridX Connect works one out.
Leave Margin on Cost blank and your Settings default of 25% is used.
A daily research allowance applies to your company, and only one search runs at a time.

Steps

Click Market Research in the left sidebar. On a first visit you see the "Research the market" start card with example part numbers under Try one — clicking an example fills the form, but you still press Research yourself.
Choose the Part Type: Aftermarket, OEM or Salvage.
Type the part number into Manufacturer Part Number (aftermarket) or OEM Number (OEM and salvage).
Enter the brand for an aftermarket part, or pick the Vehicle Make for an OEM or salvage part.
Optional: enter Your Cost (USD) and Margin on Cost, or tick Let GridX estimate cost.
Choose the Shipping Mode — Free or Buyer pays. One search returns both prices, so you can flip this after the results arrive without searching again.
Click Research. The button reads "Researching…" and a progress banner shows what is happening.
Read the badge above the price. Clean median (green) is the most reliable figure, Representative (amber) means prices span different configurations of the part, and Estimate (blue) means the figure comes from manufacturer data at lower confidence.
If you entered a cost, read the Recommended list price card: the margin percentage, eBay avg sold with the low-high of the kept listings, the itemised eBay FVF total, Gross profit and Total landed cost.
Scan the Clean comparable listings table — photo, title, NEW or USED, seller feedback percentage, price and "+$X ship" — and open any row on eBay to sanity-check it.
Act on the result: click Copy exact price to put the figure on your clipboard, Excel to download the run, Clear to start over, or History to reopen a past search.

Part types and the identifier each one needs

The Part Type you pick does two things: it switches which identifier fields appear, and it decides whether GridX Connect searches new or used listings.

| Part Type | Identifier fields | Listings searched | |---|---|---| | Aftermarket | Manufacturer Part Number plus Brand, typed free-text (for example Bosch, Denso) | New | | OEM | OEM Number plus Vehicle Make, picked from a list | New | | Salvage | OEM Number plus Vehicle Make, picked from a list | Used |

The brand or make is not optional padding. GridX Connect needs it to tell your part apart from unrelated listings that carry a similar number. Press Research without one and you get "Enter the brand — required for aftermarket parts." or "Enter the vehicle make — required for OEM and salvage parts."

Searching is done by part number. Browsing by vehicle instead of by part number is not offered on this page.

Your cost, your margin, and the pricing card

Your Cost (USD) applies to this search only. It is never saved onto an item, so you can try different figures freely. If you do not know the cost, tick Let GridX estimate cost — GridX Connect works out an estimated cost, the cost field is disabled, and the Part cost row in the breakdown is marked as an estimate. The Inventory magnifier does this automatically for any item with no stored cost.

With a cost in place, the Recommended list price card appears. The margin percentage is coloured green at 20% or above, amber at 10% or above, and red below that, so you can see at a glance whether the price is worth listing. Under the headline figure you get eBay avg sold with the low-high spread of the kept listings, the itemised eBay FVF total, processing fees, Gross profit and Total landed cost. Copy exact price copies the two-decimal figure.

The Shipping Mode toggle switches the card between two recommended prices: Free builds shipping into the list price, Buyer pays keeps it separate. Both come back from one search, so flipping is instant. In buyer-pays mode the card adds a breakeven line — "Stays profitable while your real shipping is ≤" an amount — telling you the highest real carrier cost the sale can absorb. If free shipping would push you above the market you see an amber warning: "Free shipping pushes the price above the US market — buyer-pays is more competitive here."

> [!WARNING] > The cost and fee breakdown is built around a Dubai-to-USA selling route, with lines such as "Shipping (DHL/FedEx avg)", export and processing fees. If you ship from somewhere else, read those fee lines against your own costs rather than taking them as final.

Field reference

| Field | Required | Rules | |---|---|---| | Part Type | Yes | Aftermarket, OEM or Salvage. Salvage searches used listings; OEM and Aftermarket search new. Switches the identifier fields. | | Part number | Yes | "Manufacturer Part Number" for aftermarket, "OEM Number" for OEM and salvage. Blank gives "Please enter a part number". | | Brand / Vehicle Make | Yes | Brand is free text for aftermarket. Vehicle make is a picker for OEM and salvage. The search will not run without it. | | Your Cost (USD) | Optional | Used for this search only, never saved to an item. Unlocks the recommended-price card. | | Let GridX estimate cost | Optional | GridX Connect estimates the cost and marks that row as an estimate. Disables the cost field. | | Margin on Cost | Optional | A percentage. Blank uses your Settings default of 25%. | | Shipping Mode | Optional | Free or Buyer pays. Picks which recommended price the card shows — both are returned by one search. |

What comes back, and what you can do with it

With no cost entered you still get a headline Suggested price — the middle (median) of the clean set of matching live eBay listings, labelled "Median of N clean listings", or a manufacturer-data estimate when too few clean listings exist. Alongside it, Listings scanned and Excluded as noise show how many live listings were checked, how many were kept, and chips counting the wrong-part listings that were removed.

If there is no exact match on your part number, a Did you mean one of these? panel offers chips of close numbers — often supersessions or common variants. Clicking a chip researches that number straight away.

Every result has an Excel button that downloads the run as an .xlsx file, using the same part, type, condition and make as the search on screen. The History pill opens Recent searches, your last 20 runs with the part number, recommended price and how long ago. Clicking one restores its inputs, including cost, margin and shipping mode, and researches again — which counts as a new search against your allowance.

Your result also stays put in the browser tab. Navigating away and coming back, or reloading the page, brings the same inputs and result back without running a new search. Closing the tab clears it.

Researching a part you already stock

If the part is already in your Inventory, you do not need to type anything. Click the magnifier ("Research market price") at the end of the part's row and GridX Connect researches it immediately, using the item's stored cost or an estimated cost when none is set.

The popup shows the recommended price with its own Free / Buyer toggle, the eBay median, and Net at this price. It is read-only — there is no apply button. To use the figure, open the item and edit its price, or select rows and use the bulk Price action. When the research finishes, that row's Market column fills in with the median and a pill comparing it to your price.

This per-row route depends on your plan. If yours does not include it you see "Not available on your plan." and should use the Market Research page instead, which is open to everyone. To research many parts in one go, admin users can select rows and use the bulk Research button.

If something goes wrong

| On-screen text | Why it appears | Fix | |---|---|---| | "Please enter a part number" | Research was pressed with the part number empty. | Type the part number, then press Research. | | "Enter the brand — required for aftermarket parts." | Part Type is Aftermarket with no brand. | Type the brand, then run the search again. | | "Enter the vehicle make — required for OEM and salvage parts." | Part Type is OEM or Salvage with no make. | Pick the vehicle make, then run the search again. | | "Failed to fetch market data. Please try again." | The search could not complete — usually temporary. | Press Research again; wait a few minutes if it repeats. | | "Something went wrong fetching live listings — try again shortly." | A temporary problem reaching eBay's live listings. | Retry in a few minutes. Your part number is fine. | | "Market research is busy — try again shortly." | Another search or bulk run is going, or today's allowance is used up. | Wait and retry. | | "Not available on your plan." | Your plan does not include researching items from the Inventory page. | Upgrade, or use the Market Research page from the sidebar. | | "Couldn't research this item." | Per-item research failed for another reason. | Click Try again; if it persists, research the part on the Market Research page. | | "Please log in to export" / "Failed to export data" | The Excel export ran with an expired session, or the download failed. | Sign in again, re-run the search, then click Excel. | | "Free shipping pushes the price above the US market — buyer-pays is more competitive here." | Building shipping into the price puts you above the market. | Switch Shipping Mode to Buyer pays. | | "No recent searches yet" | The History list is empty. | Run your first search — your last 20 runs collect here. |

If the Research button will not start a search, the usual cause is a missing brand or vehicle make rather than anything wrong with the part number. If searches keep returning the busy message, remember that GridX Connect runs one research at a time across your company and applies a daily allowance whose exact number is not shown in the app — a colleague's bulk run can hold the queue. Wait and try again, or come back the next day.