Cliffs Notes
Chapter 1: There are a dozen of these threads already and a dozen more yet to come.
YES! True.
Chapter 2: Seemingly everyone wants the price to remain in the sales threads for references(even though For Sale $ doesn’t always equate to Sold $).
That doesn't match with my experience. It seems to me that the ones who want the price to remain are the most vocal, perhaps, but actions speak louder than words, and there was significant dissent in most of the threads I followed. I for one don't care one way or the other, EXCEPT that I think it should be left up to the seller and/or buyer discretion.
You know, fewer mandates, more choice, free country, that sort of thing.
Chapter 3: Seemingly everyone will come out and state they leave the prices up in their sales threads.
I don't recall this either, but my memory isn't that great. If people say that, they are perhaps being disingenuous, seeing as how most prices seem to be removed.
I have purchased well over 100 knives on the Exchange in the years I've been here, and sold at least a dozen or more. That experience makes me wonder why in the world anyone would possibly care about the asking price being left up!?!?! In my experience, the asking price and selling price are only the same about 50% of the time - if that.
For example, if the listing has:
ACME Roadrunner Knife, Coyote Edition with S52VN blade steel, unobtainium scales, in poor to almost like new condition, $123 shipped G&S.
and then the knife sells for $88 via PM after two days, why in the world would anyone want to use $123 as a "reference"?
In my opinion, asking price is next to worthless, unless the price states "FIRM" - in which case, it's still just what the seller wants to get, not a true market value.
