A question about selling in Bladeforums

Lorien

Lorien

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Hi folks,
I'm curious about something; I've noticed that a lot of makers tend to remove the sale price for the knives they sell in Bladeforums once they're sold.

Why is that?
 
I think it's so people know it's sold...
If there's a post that says "sold" and there's no price, people are less likely to try to outbid the buyer after the item is already sold...

I think it would also prevent any "well you sold the last one for x, why should I pay y for this one... It looks the same to me".
 
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In most of these threads a handful of people are gonna come in and say they leave them up, I’d estimate that happens only about 10% of the time.
Others will say it’s no body’s business what a knife was bought/sold for.
Some point out asking price doesn’t always equal selling price.
Some are apparently afraid of their significant other snooping around on BF and finding out what they actually paid for a knife vs what they said they paid.

I’d prefer prices be left up but it’s not my house.
 
It's happened to me multiple times where 2 or 3 people jump the gun and send you money before you can mark it sold or agree to who you're selling to. Removing the price right away makes it so people don't come in and not realize it's sold in the comments and just send you money. It's just annoying to have to refund people and then have frustrated people in your DMs.
 
I was wondering the same thing but now when you guys say it - you can miss the (sold) in the title but you will not miss the (sold) where the price was , so absolutely it makes sense to me now :)
 
J-siah said:
It's happened to me multiple times where 2 or 3 people jump the gun and send you money before you can mark it sold or agree to who you're selling to. Removing the price right away makes it so people don't come in and not realize it's sold in the comments and just send you money. It's just annoying to have to refund people and then have frustrated people in your DMs.
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huh! Didn't know that was even a thing 🤔
 
I always assumed that the sellers were attempting to maintain some information imbalance. If a seller knows the going price for things, but buyers don't, that tips the scales in favor of the seller for the next thing they sell.
 
I once had someone send me a message about a forged bottle opener in the gear section, I had previously priced them at $15 almost a year later i posted them for sale again at $20, the increase covered shipping. The persons message was that I raised the price on them. 2 posts 1 year apart. So I typically remove prices so people don’t think that just because I sold a piece a year ago for one price that a similar piece should be the same price.
 
I’ve wondered that as well, I’d prefer if the price was kept there for general knowledge of what things are worth
 
Tyson A Wright said:
I always assumed that the sellers were attempting to maintain some information imbalance. If a seller knows the going price for things, but buyers don't, that tips the scales in favor of the seller for the next thing they sell.
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Same also with boutique toolmakers. If a toolmaker sells some of their stuff on a forum and leaves the price, the post become un-editable after a set amount of time. Not uncommon for someone to get established as a second career and then sell their business, with the buyer charging more and not being that excited to see a 5-years-ago price being brought up.

Sometimes the buyer dickered on price behind the scenes, anyway.
 
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