Prices on sold knives

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IamMatt

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Just my opinion, but as someone pretty new to knives, I like it when sellers on the trading forums leave the price information in their posts after knives are sold rather than replacing it with "SOLD." I realize the asking price may not be what it sold for, but reviewing old posts is a good way for anyone not familiar with particular knife prices to see what kind of sales history they have.

Do you sellers who replace the price in your posts with "SOLD" do it so that people will not know what the original price information was, and if so, why?
 
I agree with you...looking at old sales/trades is very informative for me as well. It helps me decide about knives that I'm interested in, but am not too familiar with when I can still see the prices.
 
A. Just because it is sold, doesn't mean that it was sold at the posted price. Most people wouldn't necessarily want to show how much they dropped their price.

B. I don't really like the idea of someone adding up the $$ in items I have sold and decided I own taxes on them or something like that (yeah, I know, paranoia).
 
I believe sometimes prices are removed to respect privacy of transaction ( to degree that is possible online in a public forum). But I too prefer to see prices stay.
Martin
 
Though I haven't sold many knives here, I never take the price out after the sale was made. I also never change it to the price that was actually paid.

Most people lose money when they sell knives so I doubt that most people would ever have to pay taxes on their transactions, even if the tax people are watching.
 
Once I got a great cash deal on a knife, about half what it was worth. A few months later I traded that knife off, I didn't get my first choice in a trade because the individual I was dealing with had run a search and found what I paid for that knife. I think leaving the sale price in has the potential of ruining fair market value later down the line. Hence, I remove them now.
 
Interesting replies on both sides. Those who delete asking prices have, of course, already posted those asking prices so that A) the prices have already been exposed to the public, and B) everyone should be aware that the asking price is not necessarily the selling price. Does make it hard to go back over a year's posts, of course.

In response to Jake's situation, I think that the protocol of responding to an offer to sell with a public "you've got mail" post as a sort of "dibs on first crack at it" followed by private emails where the transaction is hammered out is the best solution, and of course that seems to be the standard here. That way the asking price is public but the selling price is not.

I wonder if the guy was really willing to pay a certain (higher) price for the knife but then wouldn't because he thought you paid less than that for it? Seems a little twisted, but maybe that's human nature.

I appraise real estate, and in my business, the market doesn't care what someone paid, but it is a broader market with more competition. If he was the only buyer interested in that knife, he can hold out for a lower price regardless of whether you paid more or less than that, and if he is only one of several competing buyers, then he either goes along with the market or he misses out on that purchase.

Thanks for all the replies; looking forward to hearing more.

Matt
 
imho ya should leave the prices so ya can judge what a particular model is going for, for one thing. it bothers me too, like to see what stuff is selling for, guess i'm 'nosy' lol - ya dont have to put a final price just leave the original.

i myself have done the same, written sold and deleted the price, but wont again, i honestly did it w/out even thinking, just wanted to indicate they were sold, will do it another way next time.....good point........

greg
 
You want to know the absolute main reason I remove the price from my posts? The one and only reason is no matter what I put on my post saying this knife is 100% gone F-ing SOLD-shipped in big black bold letters in every post/reply on the knife in question for sale, I will still get someone emailling me two months after asking if the knife is still for sale!!! It happens over and over again, so now I always put $SOLD where the price was and every post and reply.If someone emails me and ask's what I sold it for or what the value is on their knife they have for sale I usually dont mind telling them unless I have been asked not too for some reason, which has not happened yet. :~)
Matt
 
I always leave the asking price in my for sale posts. I like to look back and see what a cqc6 sold for in 99,00,01, etc...... Its like a history book :)
michael
 
I like what Jake said, how many times have you wanted to sell something just to see that a week ago someone who really needed to make a fast sale put one up for $100 less than your rock bottom price? I think it happens the most with Sebenza's.

But really I'm on the fence, which is not typical for me ;)

As a seller I like to remove the price because way too many people never look to read it's sold, they just see a price and shoot you an e-mail.

I have had things that I marked sold in bold letters right next to the price and get 4-5 e-mails afterwards asking if I'd accept $xx.xx or something else.

One guy argued with me that I "should have marked it sold then", when I pointed out that it was already marked SOLD!!! 2 weeks ago.

As a buyer I like to do research and see what others are getting for knives too.
 
Sounds like we all want to have our cake and eat it too. I want to know how much everyone else paid (except me!) and I don't want anyone else to know how little anyone else might have paid ;-). Matt
 
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