Was I out of line? Sharing Sales Prices from the Exchange ...

3-1-1 said:
The thing is, if you leave the original asking price up there and also mark it SOLD, when you actually accepted less, aren't you putting erroneous/false information out there? You are creating the impression it sold at the asking price you left up there. Maybe there is a middle ground of just marking it "sold for less" or "best offer accepted."
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Sold for $$$ amount is a much better idea if your goal is to help the community by building a baseline of prices paid.
Listed for not so much. After all what if I list a Sebenza S35VN for $2,500 but actually sell it for $300-$400? Of course this is exaggerated but point stands valid.
 
777TILT888 said:
I think that it's a private transaction, if he asks you not to tell, I would just honor his/her request.
It's just like at a lot of workplaces, you are not suppoe to discuss how much you get paid with co-workers. That should be between you and your manager/boss. What is to be gained by sharing that info vs. how you may upset the buyers. It's your call since you are the one that posted it for sale.
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Good point there, I don't post my actual sale price if it's different that what I listed it for. I figure it's pretty easy to tell if it sold for listed price. If I see an 'I'll take it' posted shortly after it was posted I figure it sold for list. If I see 'PM sent' or 'I'll take it per our PMs', I figure it went for a little less.
 
777TILT888 said:
I think that it's a private transaction, if he asks you not to tell, I would just honor his/her request.
It's just like at a lot of workplaces, you are not suppoe to discuss how much you get paid with co-workers. That should be between you and your manager/boss. What is to be gained by sharing that info vs. how you may upset the buyers. It's your call since you are the one that posted it for sale.
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There was a member (banned multiple times already), he would buy knives for cost or under then he would turn around and flip that same knife and tack on a huge markup. I always make a mental note of people that do this and try not to transact with them as a member.
 
What surprises me are the people who list used knives at a much higher cost then they are currently selling for new at various vendors. Saw one today.
 
RevDevil said:
There was a member (banned multiple times already), he would buy knives for cost or under then he would turn around and flip that same knife and tack on a huge markup. I always make a mental note of people that do this and try not to transact with them as a member.
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Sounds familiar.

Oh right.
FLK!
 
Locutus D'Borg said:
What surprises me are the people who list used knives at a much higher cost then they are currently selling for new at various vendors. Saw one today.
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I don't get too suprised at this, after all most of us have probably done the same thing at some point, particularly when you are first discovering knives. Or, if maybe you are on the fence about selling. But the nice thing about this forum is the free market nature of the BST section, it's pretty easy to catch on when no one buys it, and you usually get a sense of the true market value of your item by what people offer or people's interest or disinterest.
But getting back to the OP topic, even if you just leave a listed price, I think it is still helpful. And then you can always cross check with some of our good vendors and auction sites to come up with a realistic "value". But I think BFC really is the best and most comprehensive site to research values. And I have contacted a seller in the past to ask what something sold for when I was looking to determine a realistic value of a similar item when there wasn't much good data to be found. I straight up said why I wanted to know, and he was very helpful. And I would be fine with disclosing to anyone who asked as well.
 
I wonder if this guy asks online vendors to remove the price after he buys something.

I would probably ask why he was going back and checking my thread after the deal was completed.
 
I bet he wants the price removed so he can resell it for a profit. Hmmmmmmmm I wonder who it was......
 
zImsKee said:
I bet he wants the price removed so he can resell it for a profit. Hmmmmmmmm I wonder who it was......
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You should not feel obligated to remove the sale price. In fact, several threads have been started, and cooperatively agreed upon by members, urging people to leave the sale price up in the thread. I used to remove mine as well, because I always saw RevDevil's secret seller doing the same thing to his sale threads, and others seemed to follow suit. More recently, however, I've been leaving the sale price (I think?...havn't paid a great amount of attention to it), and plan to leave it in future threads.
 
Locutus D'Borg said:
What surprises me are the people who list used knives at a much higher cost then they are currently selling for new at various vendors. Saw one today.
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Not everyone that sells a knife scours the web to compile a complete and total list of every stores pricing on that item. They just throw a random number. If anyone sees this, fight the urge to post in their thread with your findings.

Oh, and Luis, you are correct. ;)
 
I am a firm believer in leaving the price in (be it as a buyer or seller) that said it is certainly the prerogative of each individual involved.
 
Morrow said:
This is straight out of the site rules.

"You are not required to edit out, or leave in place, the original or final selling price. That is your prerogative."

Basically you can do whatever you want....it was your sale. Share...don't share...it's all up to you. :)
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That answers everything. Thanks !! I wish more people would leave the price but it is up to the seller......
 
Far as I can tell, you didn't break any rules or do anything unethical.

3-1-1 said:
But still it begs the question, whay aren't more people sharing? Sounds like the majority of folks thus far responding do want the info.
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Every time this topic comes up, hardly any buyer steps up and says publicly, "I wish more sellers would remove prices because..." whatever their reason. I'm not sure what that says, but it says something.

From time to time sellers - especially makers - will point out that they remove prices because they don't want to get haggled down by someone who wants a similar knife six months or a year later, when their asking price is likely to be higher. (After all, steel, electricity, belts etc. all rise in price regularly, hopefully along with our skills/quality and the demand for them.) I understand that point of view, but simply haven't found it to be a problem.

I don't understand why some people seem to think the knife biz operates any differently than any other business - especially a business dedicated largely to handmade/custom/luxury items. Would they dig up last year's grocery store flyer and demand the same price today for a box of cereal or can of soup? What about last year's price on this year's Ferrari? Nope... and if they did they'd be laughed out of the store/showroom.
 
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In my experience, folks who do deals over PM exclusively are most likely wanting to sell it for a profit later on - actually they buy it to sell it for profit as a main motive. Removing a price from a sale also points to the same thing.

This is one of the rule that I dislike, but I just live with it. :-)

Personally, I don't edit out the prices - they serve as a very good indicator of the blades worth and help future buyers and sellers.
 
Locutus D'Borg said:
What surprises me are the people who list used knives at a much higher cost then they are currently selling for new at various vendors. Saw one today.
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See it all the time. I think a lot of newer members who aren't aware of all the retail options yet (good places to buy) and many oversea's members with fewer options are the ones most likely to buy used at or above current retail for a production knife that is still readily available. Not sure why else you would?

No one is forcing anyone to buy anything so in the end people are free to ask what they like. Nothing wrong with it, It will either sell or it won't.

As far as leaving the asking price up, I also wish more would do so. If nothing else as a courtesy to other members to get an idea of fair or current asking prices. It really would be a great reference for the community as a whole.

I think a lot of people just mark it SOLD over the price because that's what they see others doing. I know in the future I plan to leave the asking price up on any sales I make.
 
I usually remove the price and mark it SOLD. I have a lot of PM's and emails when people still see the price regardless of the bold SOLD they still seem to think it is for sale?
 
atony said:
I usually remove the price and mark it SOLD. I have a lot of PM's and emails when people still see the price regardless of the bold SOLD they still seem to think it is for sale?
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As a gold member, you can lock your own thread, or change the title of the thread to SOLD.
This may help you avoid all of the unnecessary pm's.
 
While I haven't sold any knives on BF yet, when I do I'll just mark the thread with a bold SOLD, and lock the thread. The price will be left as is. If I settled at a lower price through pm's it will be between me and the buyer. And, I won't list who I sold it to as a courtesy to the buyer. But, I do like to see the prices on knives. So, I tend to look for the prices on the threads.
 
I prefer to mark as sold and leave the price, though sometimes if I list multiple knives that doesn't always work out.
 
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