Forum Decorum Exchange, removing the asking price Rule or Tradition?

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I have a question regarding Forum Decorum. Why is it standard procedure for people to remove the asking price from a exchange post when selling a knife? I think everyone in the Busse family wants to sell and or buy at a fair price but It can be tough determining a fair price. Is there a Exchange rule about removing the asking price or is this just a tradition?


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Boss1911 said:
I have a question regarding Forum Decorum. Why is it standard procedure for people to remove the asking price from a exchange post when selling a knife? I think everyone in the Busse family wants to sell and or buy at a fair price but It can be tough determining a fair price. Is there a Exchange rule about removing the asking price or is this just a tradition?


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Tradition, as far as I can tell.

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Not that I’m aware of. I usually leave my prices, sometimes I remove them, and I have seen others do the same. I think most do so just because everyone wants to get the most they can for an item.

So I normally just price items high and if it doesn’t sell, I start lowering the price until it does. It’s as simple as that. Or include an OBO in your post meaning you’re willing to accept offers.

Thanks
 
There is no rule on this forum but I wish there was personally. I only remove the asking price if the buyer requests me to or I will strike the price if I agree to a lower offer.
 
I scrub all prices of sold goods out of respect for the buyer. . I've learned that it's just easier, in the long run, if I do so. It's not difficult to come up with market prices when selling, especially during this crappy market.
 
This actually goes way back about 17-18 years or so when there was a profiteer, who has since been banned, who would contact buyers and sellers if he missed a knife he wanted and try to undermine the deal, harass the buyer into selling it to him, or harass the seller into changing the deal and selling it to him instead. You may see this person referred to by some as "he who shall not be named" and you may also know him from eBay.

This is also why many older (longer tenure) forumite's may prefer not to post an "I'll take it" in a sale thread, a habit that got started at the same time to maintain confidentiality.
 
I used to leave the prices up until about the last year or so. Quite often for me, the sales price that I listed was not what it sold for. I don't feel the need to advertise that price as that was was what the buyer and I decided on which was less than my asking price.
This is a fun hobby to participate in. I've been on both sides of the fence as far as keeping the list price up and also taking it down. Personally, as others have commented, the market is slower and the prices aren't quite what they used to be. I generally tend to sell it for what I purchased it for.
 
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Forum Decorum Exchange, removing the asking price Rule or Tradition?

I have a question regarding Forum Decorum. Why is it standard procedure for people to remove the asking price from a exchange post when selling a knife? I think everyone in the Busse family wants to sell and or buy at a fair price but It can be tough determining a fair price. Is there a Exchange...
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Sale prices removed

I do not know if this has been mentioned before ( sure it has ) , Can we keep the original prices in the description so that we can get a gauge of the going or asking prices? I do not where to place this message but I am hoping enough people see it so that it can be made a rule or a suggested...
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Why delete sale price? Could benefit the market greatly....

BladeForums has the potential to be the greatest for something else....A current market price guide but instead people force everyone to go to other sites (worthpoint, eBay, Facebook, etc) Everyone deletes the price of sold items......worried to tell ppl u sold too low or too high? Lol I think...
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Why?

Do YOU delete the price of your knife after you sell it? Are you embarrassed by the selling price? You yourself know that if you want to sell a particular knife, you might try and do a little research and see what others have sold the same for. Maybe just to get a rough idea. I don't really...
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Why the $old???

In the exchange, when someone sells a knife, more than often he/she wipes out the price that had been asked and replaced it with $old, or SOLD, or some such. Why? I would like to know the price, even if the knife was sold. Wouldn't you? What is gained here? What is the goal? I am a little...
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Removing your sold price after you've sold the knife?

Whats with this practice of doing so? I did not see this in the selling rules (I could have missed it there). I noticed (being new) that when I just miss buying a particular knife the seller changes his price to $Sold or something like this real quick. Maybe its just the dealers who do this...
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Why do people remove prices of sold knives?

Just as the title states im curious as to why so many people in the exchange delete the asking price after selling the knife? Sometimes when i plan on selling a knife I like to see what they are going for so my asking price isn't inflated or too low.
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OT: Save the price?

A year or so ago there was a thread about leaving the list price in the sales thread. I've left most of mine-- the ones I mark $OLD it is mostly because of force of habit of changing it. I know it is a 100% personal choice and I'm gonna keep leaving mine viewable (unless there's a good...
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Ya' know what really pisses me off??

Ya' know what really pisses me off?? When I open a for sale thread and discover that the knife ha been sold, but the asking price ha been replaced by "SOLD". I'm sure this has been addressed in the past, but I haven't the patience to find the threads addressing the issue. At least with...
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Why delete the sold price in the exchange?

Just curious - over in our exchange forum it seems to be common practice for sellers to remove the sold price from their listings or even delete the item altogether once sold - isnt it a good thing, for many different reasons, to keep them in there? I think its rather beneficial to see the...
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Why won't a Moderator make the rule of....

You cannot erase prices on items that sell in the Busse exchange. Other sites have this rule. What is the purpose of erasing them anyway? It's not a secret that it's not cool to do it.
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Meta: Questions on Exchange

Not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but: 1. Why does everyone remove the price after something sells? It would be nice to see what things have sold for recently when trying to price one's own knives. 2. Why are people now replacing typed prices with $1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣? It looks like a...
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Removing the asking price is a waste of time. Simply subscribe to the Busse / Swamprat / Scrapyard Knives For Sale forum using the email option and every post with the original asking price is emailed to you. I am a moderator on Microholics.org. The rules there require you to leave the final asking price to help establish a historical value record. Helps prevent newbies from getting screwed, a good thing IMO.
 
I just trying to avoid selling Busse Knives All together lol but when I did sell a few, I never erased the price. But I can see both sides of the argument. I vote for leaving the price.
 
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