Why delete the sold price in the exchange?

Like so much else in this life, it's a personal decision.

As such, I have no problem with anyone else's decision.

My decision? I keep the price in place, as a guide to others.



[It's probably a crappy guide, but it's the best I can do.:)]
 
Another one who supports leaving the price up. I really think it is very helpful for reference.
 
I leave it up, and would prefer others do as well. Never had a problem with someone else trying to buy it after I put SOLD beside price. A big SOLD is impossible to miss, even if the price is left up.

It is all up to the seller though, so its no biggie to me.
 
lunde said:
I prefer to leave the prices up. Only one buyer ever asked me to remove the price, and I complied with his request, mainly because I didn't give it much thought. In retrospect, I wish I had not done so. I won't do so again.
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Thats the same with me, didn't think about it much till after I did it, then I wished I didn't delete the price.
 
I think such transaction is up to the buyer/seller. It's a personal transaction, you don't put up how much you actually paid for a car on the car do you? If you are single and you don't walk around the bar, wearing how much money you make on your head... Money is a personal thing, I don't think it is anyone's business how much I paid for it. I don't even like to post I'll take it, or anything in the thread. People don't need to know I own that knife, mind your own business... I may have worked out a deal with the seller or vis versa, but that should be between him/her and I. If you don't know how much something is currently going for, ask someone or do what everyone is supposed to do "SEARCH!!!"
and yes, I am one of those people that ask the prices to be removed... If I wanted everyone to know everything I'm doing, I'd put this crap on facebook...
 
Liu Kang said:
I think such transaction is up to the buyer/seller. It's a personal transaction, you don't put up how much you actually paid for a car on the car do you? If you are single and you don't walk around the bar, wearing how much money you make on your head... Money is a personal thing, I don't think it is anyone's business how much I paid for it. I don't even like to post I'll take it, or anything in the thread. People don't need to know I own that knife, mind your own business... I may have worked out a deal with the seller or vis versa, but that should be between him/her and I. If you don't know how much something is currently going for, ask someone or do what everyone is supposed to do "SEARCH!!!"
and yes, I am one of those people that ask the prices to be removed... If I wanted everyone to know everything I'm doing, I'd put this crap on facebook...
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there's one in every bunch. ;)

does Liu Kang translate to INFI-ninja?
 
Liu Kang said:
If you don't know how much something is currently going for, ask someone or do what everyone is supposed to do "SEARCH!!!"
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SEARCH!!! is exactly why some folks advocate leaving the prices there. A search isn't very useful if all it turns up is big red "SOLD" notices.

Like I said, I have been deleting the prices lately, but there's no secret ulterior motive there. Some who ask for the prices to be deleted definitely seem to have very specific reasons, which extend beyond simple privacy.
 
Liu Kang said:
I think such transaction is up to the buyer/seller. It's a personal transaction, you don't put up how much you actually paid for a car on the car do you? If you are single and you don't walk around the bar, wearing how much money you make on your head... Money is a personal thing, I don't think it is anyone's business how much I paid for it. I don't even like to post I'll take it, or anything in the thread. People don't need to know I own that knife, mind your own business... I may have worked out a deal with the seller or vis versa, but that should be between him/her and I. If you don't know how much something is currently going for, ask someone or do what everyone is supposed to do "SEARCH!!!"
and yes, I am one of those people that ask the prices to be removed... If I wanted everyone to know everything I'm doing, I'd put this crap on facebook...
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I don't think this topic would have struck a chord with so many if they felt it were indeed a matter as simple as privacy.

Searching doesn't do too much good when the gross majority of prices are not left up - hence the logic behind this thread.
 
I see both sides.

I have sold a few Busses here, and I leave 99% of sale prices up after the fact, but its not always 100% accurate either. THey are the asking prices. I have sold items for less than the listing for many reasons....to scratch a back, earn a favor, being kind, just because, whatever....

ALso, even though I leave my prices up doesnt mean I havent asked someone to delete a price either... because I have done that too at least twice. In both instances it was due to the fact that I may have owned a few or even a bunch of that model and didnt want the low price to be the new standard price since I had paid a lot more for a bunch of the same model and bring down the value of the rest of my collection.

Leaving prices up is a good thing, but it doesnt necessarily mean your an evil villian if you remove them either.
 
if you really wanted to know a price, I have done it before and had it done to me where you just message the seller asking what the knife sold at... but usually if it is a rare peice, just cause it sold a year ago at that price doesn't mean that is what it is worth... I have had man lowball offers just because someone sold it at $300 that is what they offer me and I probably paid more then that....
 
I see both sides too..... but that could just be because I'm so cockeyed and pie-eyed and crosseyed. ;) :D

I leave prices on For Sale threads myself and like when others do too. I realize that the price posted ain't always the price that got paid.... that part of the transaction is almost always invisible to the reading public.

I understand that removing the price serves to obliterate even a suggestion of what the price was for the sale. But there are a couple things you can do to maintain a sense of current (or at least recent) market values for whichever Busse is the current apple of your eye. I know I ain't the only one to do this sort of thing.

1. Maintain an archive file (mine is just a text file, although a spreadsheet would make organization by model or date easier) by doing a "cut & paste" of Busse For Sale threads including prices when the knives are first offered and when the prices change in a thread.

2. Hang out on these and other knife forums until you get a gut feel for who are the profiteers and who are the guys who get 'em, flog 'em, then sell 'em for pretty much what they have in 'em. It doesn't take long to sort the crowd out. When you see someone offering six or eight knives intro'ed at a show at the end of the first day of the show for stiff prices, that name tends to stay on the radar as a red dot. I ain't saying it's wrong (I appreciate free-market capitalism coupled with motivation and ambition as much as anyone), just that I remember the name. YMMV.

Buy 'em, Beat 'em, Shoot 'em (pics!!), Move 'em. It's all good.

Special thanks to Boss Hog for making this whole Kool-Aid trip possible. :cool::thumbup:
 
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