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ZippoThisKnifeThat

ZippoThisKnifeThat

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I believe this has been discussed before, but I would like a thread directly addressing the matter. I would LOVE to know why people REMOVE the price in which they are asking or have sold a knife for?!?!?!?! :confused:

Example:

BM710 NIB for $120

Once Sold:

BM710 NIB for $OLD, GONE, Sold, SPF
[where'd the price go?]


I think it is beneficial for a Buyer AND a Seller to see what particular knives are being valued and sold for. Searching the Sale forum for previously priced and sold knives benefits potential buyers and sellers, does it not?

What's the deal for removing the price of which you are asking or have sold a knife for?

Please insight me for I am at loss of an explanation? :confused:
 
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I hear ya, I'm trying to decide on a fair selling price of my CQC8 but all similar examples have the price removed :(
 
you could easily just search a few on line knife shops to find out the usual price for any given
knife. You can even usually still find prices for knives that are rare or discontinued etc.
 
a flipper wouldn't want anyone to see what they paid, since it will have been lower than when they decide to sell it.

some people see it as a private matter, and don't want others to know what they have spent.

ill remove a price if the buyer requests, but have only done so a couple times. i figure they just paid me, so it doesn't matter so much to me if the price gets removed. i never do so on my own.
 
ZippoThisKnifeThat said:
I believe this has been discussed before, but I would like a thread directly addressing the matter. I would LOVE to know why people REMOVE the price in which they are asking or have sold a knife for?!?!?!?! :confused:

Example:

BM710 NIB for $120

Once Sold:

BM710 NIB for $OLD, GONE, Sold, SPF
[where'd the price go?]


I think it is beneficial for a Buyer AND a Seller to see what particular knives are being valued and sold for. Searching the Sale forum for previously priced and sold knives benefits potential buyers and sellers, does it not?

What's the deal for removing the price of which you are asking or have sold a knife for?

Please insight me for I am at loss of an explanation? :confused:
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I totally agree with you.
I have been on some sites where you can not edit, meaning, you can not change any info, so, if something goes wrong with the sale, all the original info is there to see, no mistake on what the deal was or is, including price.
Also, not every knife has a price listed elsewhere. Many here are customs, rare, one of's, etc., plus, you can also keep track of the values, is the value going up? Is the value going down?

I am with ya, the info should have to be kept. It is also part of the draw of the information of the forum..., information, information, information!!!
(plus, it helps keep everyone honest:)
 
General Knife Discussion is for discussing knives.
FEEDBACK/GBU is for discussing deals.

I would prefer to see the prices left up as a guide. But many buyers and sellers don't want people seeing what the final price was. Can you imagine selling a knife you had bought here and have someone tell you, I know what you paid for that and you're overcharging! Sellers don't want someone holding them to a previous price when they sell a similar model later. It is entirely the seller's choice to leave it or not.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
General Knife Discussion is for discussing knives.
FEEDBACK/GBU is for discussing deals.

I would prefer to see the prices left up as a guide. But many buyers and sellers don't want people seeing what the final price was. Can you imagine selling a knife you had bought here and have someone tell you, I know what you paid for that and you're overcharging! Sellers don't want someone holding them to a previous price when they sell a similar model later. It is entirely the seller's choice to leave it or not.
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What someone paid for an item does not even enter the subject when selling. The price someone paid has no bearing at all on the selling price. If someone gave $50 for a $100 knife, it's value is still $100, not $50.
I mean, if you get a knife for a gift (free), does that mean when you decide to "sell" it, you have to give it away because you have no money in it?
No, that is silly. Price is set by market value, supply, demand, not what someone paid for it.
As an example, I tried to sell a cell phone today. I paid $200. I asked $30 and only $5 shipping. The phone is in mint condition, the protective cover is still on the phone, that is how little it was used and how well it was taken care of.
Did it matter to the potential buyer that I paid $200?
No, only the value of the phone NOW, at this time, not when I bought it.
I would also prefer to see the price stay up. I don't care if someone paid $10 and is selling for $50, especially if it is a $100 knife, I am still going to buy it, I am still getting a deal and he is turning a 5x profit, we would all be happy, however, I understand there would be those that gripe, but hey..., they will find something to gripe about, if not this, it WILL BE something else, LOL!!
 
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I doubt this will change the way things are being done but I have to agree 100% with the OP. I can't stand seeing the price on a knife removed. I buy a knife because I want it. Sometimes to the detriment of good sense. If I want something enough I don't care what the price is and I certainly don't mind someone making a few bucks off of me. I doubt that most people selling knives are doing it as a community service.

I too like to research price trends on knives and it is very helpful when I can go back to past sales and see what a certain knife is going for. Just my 2 cents.
 
I leave my prices up for just that reason. It's one thing if you're selling a knife that anybody can buy anywhere, it's another if you're selling a discontinued, rare, or a rare and discontinued knife. For example, I recently sold some Benchmade Balisongs in used condition that were from very limited production runs. Doing searches for these knives brings up only a small handful of posts that really don't apply because they're for new/mint knives and they're all too old to gauge the current market value. Thus, I'm forced to start (sometimes absurdly) high and reduce price until it's sold (at which point you can assume that it's the market value), which can take several days or longer.

Ditto for buyers. Is $XXX that BFMember42 is asking a fair price for a NIB Acme model 2112 that was discontinued 4 years ago? No idea...one sold 3 months ago but the seller deleted the price and the next newest sale was 3 years ago.

OTOH, on the occasions where I needed to know the selling price of a recent sale where the price was deleted, I simply asked the seller, and they told me.
 
I see it as you wanting the easy way out.

There’s a reward for spending the time, paying attention and learning the market. The items here are not commodities they are collectables. The previous sale price is interesting but not necessarily reflective of the current market.

The experience earned by learning and paying attention to the market is knowing a deal when you see it. Otherwise there’d be a page listing the current price for all items ever sold on BladeForums.

The transaction is between the Seller and the Buyer- what the Buyer paid is private.

Also the listed price doesn’t necessarily indicate the actual price.


So to me the bottom line is- knowledge is money and you earn that knowledge by paying attention, spending the time and learning the market.

If you can’t or don’t want to spend the time you pay accordingly.
 
braillediver said:
The transaction is between the Seller and the Buyer- what the Buyer paid is private.
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Except when it happens to be posted on a public forum. It's no big deal for me personally but it would be nice to see the prices left in place. It certainly does not change my buying habits.
 
This question has been asked time & time again. Some remove it because they feel it’s a private matter between buyer and seller. Others like to “flip” a knife they got for a super price from someone else and make a little profit (for their next knife buy). Still others do it because they thought that was the thing to do. To be honest, I guess I do it for all the above reasons but it boils down to a privacy issue for me. Public forum or not, it’s between the buyer & seller. If you want to know the final price, ask the buyer. It’s his/her choice at that point whether they want to let you know what they paid. Leaving it up on a public forum takes their choice away.

Just my opinion but as Jill Jackson stated “BF isn’t going to make the seller leave the price up, so it's a moot point”

Mark T.
 
braillediver said:
I see it as you wanting the easy way out.

There’s a reward for spending the time, paying attention and learning the market. The items here are not commodities they are collectables. The previous sale price is interesting but not necessarily reflective of the current market.

The experience earned by learning and paying attention to the market is knowing a deal when you see it. Otherwise there’d be a page listing the current price for all items ever sold on BladeForums.

The transaction is between the Seller and the Buyer- what the Buyer paid is private.

Also the listed price doesn’t necessarily indicate the actual price.


So to me the bottom line is- knowledge is money and you earn that knowledge by paying attention, spending the time and learning the market.

If you can’t or don’t want to spend the time you pay accordingly.
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:thumbup: Agreed.
 
If people left the prices on their threads, there wouldn't be people on the exchange doing someone a favor by selling them an XM18 for $700. :barf:

Honestly, I do believe that in some cases people are not paying attention when the price is left on the OP and they end up bumping a 4 year old sale thread. A little extra reading prevents it, but sometimes that is overlooked. In order to avoid multiple people asking for a knife, they mark it $old. That was the real reason I did it at first, preventing confusion. Now I jusd change the color to a light blue/gray and remove the pictures.
 
RevDevil said:
If people left the prices on their threads, there wouldn't be people on the exchange doing someone a favor by selling them an XM18 for $700. :barf:
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What do you mean exactly? That people would be ashamed to make such a huge profit?
I am not sure, pretty much everyone knows that Rick's price on those is $385, but then dealers have very different prices, some even higher than $700. Or the seller could have bought it on a forum for an already inflated price...
 
I buy and sell stuff on a few forums (knives, guns, musical instruments) and this is a very common complaint. I'm in 100% agreement with you, but there's nothing that can be done about it.

What's far more annoying to me is when people bump their thread with a "SOLD!" post once their item sells instead of simply editing the original and letting the thread sink.
 
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