Removing sold prices

[Turbo Tension]

I don't sell a lot but I can see both sides, and I used to leave prices up when I did sell something ... BUT ...

After having several inquiries even with posting sold and closing threads (price left up). And having a couple potential buyers continually PMing trying to use ONE past posted price to try get me to accept a lowball offer and just refuse take a simple no for an answer to their lowball offers. So I started just posting SOLD in place of the price and close the thread. It seemed to stop that.

As I said I haven't sold as much as many do, but it seems the last year or so prices are all over the place. And mainly I think due to a lot of new members that just sign up to use the exchange. That has really changed how I look at prices and even buying or selling.

To your point of being bothered by an annoying buyer, the site has a block feature.

As someone who was considering spending the money to upgrade membership to unload a small knife collection, I find that the mishmash of prices left up is a nightmare for trying to assign current market value. The risk of losing a large chunk of purchasing price to EBay seems more worthwhile than paying for a Gold membership and losing money on what I’ve got given that I’ve got nowhere to gauge prices other than EBay’s Sold listings and Reddit.

I argue the benefits of either erasing all prices or leaving all prices.

 

[RayseM]

To your point of being bothered by an annoying buyer, the site has a block feature.

As someone who was considering spending the money to upgrade membership to unload a small knife collection, I find that the mishmash of prices left up is a nightmare for trying to assign current market value. The risk of losing a large chunk of purchasing price to EBay seems more worthwhile than paying for a Gold membership and losing money on what I’ve got given that I’ve got nowhere to gauge prices other than EBay’s Sold listings and Reddit.

I argue the benefits of either erasing all prices or leaving all prices.

Well if all the price are deleted you are still left with only the eBay or Reddit listings. This way - with the mishmash - at least some of your research it taken care of here on BF. I don't believe there will ever be any resolution to this without admin making a new rule - which is not very likely.

Even when the prices are left in you are not getting the full story. Some one could have bought a knife for a great deal or in a trade and is not needing to resell for profit so the price is lower than one might expect. Not unlike art auction houses tearing down the entire value of an artist's work because one owner doesn't value the piece and dumps it into the market place, tinge all other sales of the same artist's work to that one sale aberration. The down slide begins...

Conversely - someone buys a knife at a stupid high price because it is just so cool or because it has been his/her grail. I've seen $ 200.00 knives sell for over $600.00 because the right pair of eyes landed on a sales thread. No way around needing to research or establish your own comfort level as to what "loss" you are willing to absorb. I understand that is more difficult to do with knives that have been in collections that you didn't build. The more you sell the more you get a baseline, but...

All I can add is good luck.

 

[Peter Hartwig]

To your point of being bothered by an annoying buyer, the site has a block feature.

As someone who was considering spending the money to upgrade membership to unload a small knife collection, I find that the mishmash of prices left up is a nightmare for trying to assign current market value. The risk of losing a large chunk of purchasing price to EBay seems more worthwhile than paying for a Gold membership and losing money on what I’ve got given that I’ve got nowhere to gauge prices other than EBay’s Sold listings and Reddit.

I argue the benefits of either erasing all prices or leaving all prices.

With a gold membership or higher you can ask about pricing of an item you wish to sell, if you don't care to do the research.
And you support the site

 

[not2sharp]

The vast majority of older knives were made by companies and makers that are no longer around, or no longer producing your specific model. That means that their marketing is gone and only seldom will they be mentioned in articles or shown online in catalogs. For the most part if you want to recover the invested value, you have to do the marketing yourself. You are the one that has to do the research, inform the buyers, position the product and produce your sources. The first question we should ask is whether we have the energy and skill to do that.

n2s