I Know Most Do This But Why...

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Just curious, not a condemnation, and I know it is perfectly within forum guidelines to do so but…. Why do folk consider it almost a necessity to obliterate the sale price of an item after it has sold? Usually the price is obliterated with $SOLD or something to that affect. I have thought about this and come up wit no good reason to do so. It would be nice to have the historical market value of items left intact. Am I missing something? While we are on this topic why do some feel the need to remove the pictures after an item has sold? I know the forum requests us to close a thread but have never heard them ask for us to delete pictures. I do neither of these things and have what I would consider to be pretty good feedback, again, am I missing something?

Thank you for your input in advance as I will probably not respond to this thread. Not trying to make a big deal just a curiosity more than anything.
 
I have argued with people about this here ad nauseam. The main reason people redact the prices is that they're aping what they see done by others.
 
I delete my pics because I sometimes sell a knife that I really didn't want to and like a old girlfriend I would rather not be reminded of a lost love. :(
 
I might have to start quoting the price in threads when I buy a knife.
I usually look through the thread on the off chance somebody did that.
 
No need to overthink anything. It's simply the sellers prerogative. :)

Some choose to leave the for sale price (like yourself), and others don't.
 
I might have to start quoting the price in threads when I buy a knife.
I usually look through the thread on the off chance somebody did that.

Not to be rude (just looking to help), but some sellers dislike this practice. And will even go as far as not dealing with you in the future.
 
No need to overthink anything. It's simply the sellers prerogative. :)

Some choose to leave the for sale price (like yourself), and others don't.

This is really what it boils down to. Also even if the price was left up how you know that that is actually the price paid.

Moved to tech support.
 
I sometimes do it just because the value of knives can fluctuate. I prefer not to be a road block if the buyer wants to sell it down the road for more $$. I do it as a courtesy to the buyer. I won't delete the pictures as it serves as a record of the condition of the knife when I sold it.
 
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I recently kept checking a sales thread for a Small Sebenza where the price would bump up and down by $5-$10 every few hours for a couple of days. The price wavered at all the $5 intervals between $305 and $320 more than 10 times. At first I was interested in the knife but then I realized the seller was really weird...

A quoted price in the comments would have really thrown him though a loop.
 
This is really what it boils down to. Also even if the price was left up how you know that that is actually the price paid.

Moved to tech support.

+1 :thumbup:

This again?

I sometimes do it just because the value of knives can fluctuate. I prefer not to be a road block if the buyer wants to sell it down the road for more $$. I do it as a courtesy to the buyer. I won't delete the pictures as it serves as a record of the condition of the knife when I sold it.

+1 :thumbup:

Excellent reasoning! And very thoughtful of you. :)
 
A few reasons I can think of as to why the price and pics are obliterated - avoid price haggling (you'd be surprised how frequently this happens), free up space on photo-hosting site if you have a paid account, or simply move photos in an attempt to re-organize your online photo album which removes the pictures. Certain cases, the pic hosting site may throttle depending on traffic, or simply refuse to hotlink the image. I have also heard of buyers requesting sellers to remove the price.

Not everyone delete the price, or the pictures. I don't.
 
It's useful to mark it as sold and eliminate the price so you don't get emails from morons 4 years later asking if it's still available.
 
It would be nice to have the historical market value of items left intact.

Knife sales are a cutthroat business these days, much unlike how it was when I started buying custom knives 20 years ago. Sellers now remove the prices so there will not be a record of historical values. My guess is that way they can bump up their prices in the future. If they were interested in the knife community at large they would leave the prices.
 
Knife sales are a cutthroat business these days, much unlike how it was when I started buying custom knives 20 years ago. Sellers now remove the prices so there will not be a record of historical values. My guess is that way they can bump up their prices in the future. If they were interested in the knife community at large they would leave the prices.

I respect your opinion, however I can assure you that couldn't be farther from the reason I remove the price when I am the seller.
 
It's useful to mark it as sold and eliminate the price so you don't get emails from morons 4 years later asking if it's still available.

This. Some people have no concept of "Sold" if there's still a price listed.

Sometimes I consider just editing the price to solve the problem.

Opinel No. 6 - $4500.00 (plus PP fees) Sold
 
There are some knives that just arent common enough to easily find a value aside from the exchange.

Researching an insurance value for an older Busse for example, every hit I got was an erased price. Finally had to go with a wild guess and hope it makes it ok. Frustrating to say the least.
 
There are some knives that just arent common enough to easily find a value aside from the exchange.

Researching an insurance value for an older Busse for example, every hit I got was an erased price. Finally had to go with a wild guess and hope it makes it ok. Frustrating to say the least.

In a situation like this (or any situation) one could contact the original seller and ask what it sold for.
 
To Quote one of my favorite Super Mod's on the subject:

"Liu kang is the one who started the general practice of removing them (Asking prices). Now almost everyone follows that con man's example."
 
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