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[jbib]

Sorry to clutter the forum with this question: is it policy or practice to eliminate the price of an item with sold upon the completion of a transaction?

 

[Jdottinger]

Here is just one thread about the topic. Many others to be found.

Removing sold prices

This has been covered before but there is a discussion and poll currently on reddit's main knife sale subreddit, r/knife_swap, on the topic. Yes, it's a different site but many forum members buy/sell there as well. I have also noticed an influx of new members buying/selling using the grading...

www.bladeforums.com

 

[sgt1372]

Sorry to clutter the forum with this question: is it policy or practice to eliminate the price of an item with sold upon the completion of a transaction?

It's NOT a "policy" but it is a very annoying and unnecessary "practice."

As noted, there has been a lot of discussion about this practice before but attempts to get a policy to prevent it have been unsuccessful.

It's just up to the individual seller to do it or not.

Buyer's can subvert this practice by stating that they'll "take" the knife at the seller's asking price in their response in the thread (which is what I & others have started to do) but this won't work where sellers have "locked" their thread to force all comms to be made by PM.

More sophisticated sellers, will simply grey out or line out the asking price and mark the item SOLD (in the thread and/or title) rather than delete the price entirely. This is the preferred practice IMO.

 

[jbib]

It's NOT a "policy" but it is a very annoying and unnecessary "practice."

As noted, there has been a lot of discussion about this practice before but attempts to get a policy to prevent it have been unsuccessful.

It's just up to the individual seller to do it or not.

Buyer's can subvert this practice by stating that they'll "take" the knife at the seller's asking price in their response in the thread (which is what I & others have started to do) but this won't work where sellers have "locked" their thread to force all comms to be made by PM.

More sophisticated sellers, will simply grey out or line out the asking price and mark the item SOLD (in the thread and/or title) rather than delete the price entirely. This is the preferred practice IMO.

It's NOT a "policy" but it is a very annoying and unnecessary "practice."

As noted, there has been a lot of discussion about this practice before but attempts to get a policy to prevent it have been unsuccessful.

It's just up to the individual seller to do it or not.

Buyer's can subvert this practice by stating that they'll "take" the knife at the seller's asking price in their response in the thread (which is what I & others have started to do) but this won't work where sellers have "locked" their thread to force all comms to be made by PM.

More sophisticated sellers, will simply grey out or line out the asking price and mark the item SOLD (in the thread and/or title) rather than delete the price entirely. This is the preferred practice IMO.

Thank you

 

[Hvactech]

It's NOT a "policy" but it is a very annoying and unnecessary "practice."

As noted, there has been a lot of discussion about this practice before but attempts to get a policy to prevent it have been unsuccessful.

It's just up to the individual seller to do it or not.

Buyer's can subvert this practice by stating that they'll "take" the knife at the seller's asking price in their response in the thread (which is what I & others have started to do) but this won't work where sellers have "locked" their thread to force all comms to be made by PM.

More sophisticated sellers, will simply grey out or line out the asking price and mark the item SOLD (in the thread and/or title) rather than delete the price entirely. This is the preferred practice IMO.

I agree with what you are saying and I wish I was savvy enough to know how to grey out or put a line through it. I'm lucky enough just to post something lol

 

[sgt1372]

I agree with what you are saying and I wish I was savvy enough to know how to grey out or put a line through it. I'm lucky enough just to post something lol

To grey out any words or #s, just highlight the words &/or #s that you want to change the color of, then click on the drop down artist's palette board which displays a color board & then click on the color grey which applies that color to those words &/or #s.

To line out any words & #s, just put "s'' & "/s" separately in brackets before & after the words that you want to line out.

Try It. Once you do it a couple of times, it's easy.

 

[not2sharp]

The price was a historical reference not a current valuation. Further, now that we are actively getting rid of the images it is hard to say what changed hands.

N2s

 

[Boru13]

From the Exchange rules.
“Sellers can keep or delete the prices in their thread, it is their prerogative“

 

[Hvactech]

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[FLymon]

It's NOT a "policy" but it is a very annoying and unnecessary "practice."

As noted, there has been a lot of discussion about this practice before but attempts to get a policy to prevent it have been unsuccessful.

It's just up to the individual seller to do it or not.

Buyer's can subvert this practice by stating that they'll "take" the knife at the seller's asking price in their response in the thread (which is what I & others have started to do) but this won't work where sellers have "locked" their thread to force all comms to be made by PM.

More sophisticated sellers, will simply grey out or line out the asking price and mark the item SOLD (in the thread and/or title) rather than delete the price entirely. This is the preferred practice IMO.

Most sellers (seems like most to me anyway) must do it for a reason. Other than being unsophisticated, why do you imagine that is?

I have had the same position for a while now, from 2011:

I don't buy knives to "flip", well almost never, but still I like to be patient and buy at the best possible price. I do this so I know that for whatever reason if I don't want to keep the knife I should be able to easily recoup my investment if I sell it. I believe it is in my interest in both buying and selling if finding selling prices for knives in the "free and open" market is not so easy.

As a patient buyer willing to dig for info, I am reasonably sure what is and isn't a good value. A Seller who is not so diligent is just as likely to offer an item for too little as too much. The less info there is to go on works for me as a patient buyer, more times than not IMO.

When I sell a knife, I will try to start at a price that I think I may very well get without negotiation, but am willing to move a little on if I get a quick offer. Like I said, I don't flip knives, but I do try to cover all costs associated with both the purchase and sale of my knives whenever possible. It works for me as a seller that an impatient/impulsive/uninformed buyer can't easily find historical sales info on the model of knife I happen to be selling.

That being said here is a simple solution for the whiners who think they are somehow entitled to see what every knife sold here on the forums asking price was.
If you are the seller, leave the price up.
If you are the buyer, quote the OP's asking price along with your "I'll take it" post. If you scroll through an old for sale thread you will find that this happens sometimes. Even if the seller removes the asking price the price will still be in the quote posted by the buyer.
And if you are neither the buyer, or the seller? Piss off.

Perhaps a more, shall we say, sophisticated shopper and/or seller wanting to satisfy anything more than simple curiosity would not be so lazy as not to check the sales threads more often and keep some record of the asking prices before they buy or sell.

 

[91bravo]

Love it or hate it, it's the seller's choice to leave or delete the price