Honestly i get the frustration. Most of the good free tools for eBay died off when they changed their API access a while back. You might want to consider checking out PriceBefore. It is one of the few that still lets you see price history without a subscription. Just be careful though because it doesnt always catch every single listing especially for niche N64 games. Make sure to double check the sold listings manually too because trackers sometimes miss the real price if a best offer was accepted. I would suggest staying away from anything that asks for your ebay login details... thats just a recipe for disaster tbh. Stick to the simple browser extensions that just overlay data. It keeps your money for the actual collection.

Building on the earlier suggestion, I found PriceBefore misses too many API pings. I tried it for months but it was honestly useless, so I just use manual saved searches now.

> Terapeak but that feels way too complicated for a casual buyer I totally get where you are coming from regarding the complexity of some of these tools. A while back I was trying to find some specific hardware for a project and went down a similar rabbit hole. My experience taught me that free tools often come with a hidden cost... usually in terms of data privacy or reliability. One extension I tried promised real-time alerts and worked fine for a few days. Then it started asking for weird permissions to access my entire browsing history. Deleting it felt like the safest move because it was too risky for a simple price check. From a technical standpoint, a lot of these free trackers struggle because eBay updates their site structure or API limits quite often. Developers of free tools dont always have the resources to push updates immediately when that happens. I actually missed out on a decent deal because the tool I was using failed to refresh the price during a weekend sale. Now, my current setup is much more manual. Relying on the built-in saved searches and notifications from the eBay app itself is what works for me lately. It isnt as fancy as a dedicated price history graph, but it is reliable and keeps my data within the platform. If you do go with a third-party option, just be cautious about what permissions you give them. Sometimes the basic notifications are the safest bet for a casual collector.