chandlerkj
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I guess I don't understand the reasoning behind it.
Too often I see the title edited to just 'sold'. The first thought is, 'what sold'? And almost as a rule, when items do sell, the asking/selling price is changed to '$OLD'. I went over the exchange rules a few times and I can't seem to find if it does in fact call for the seller to edit the selling price to $OLD. Again, my first thought is, 'what did it sell for or what was the asking price'?? Now in no way shape or form am I that guy that says, 'well on this forum they do things this way'!! Quite the contrary. It only stuck out to me as deleting the sale price or editing it can lead to a warning/time out/ban on a couple other forums I frequent so I am super cognizant of Exchange rules.
The point I am trying to make, is that by seeing the title and the post's 'sell price' when I search the forum, history or whatever, helps to get a benchmark for the value of things. A historical place to start when listing items or when gauging market value. Or, to simply see what sold. There are a lot of really special and rare things that cross these boards and it would be awesome to see what they sold for or even when the last time one was listed or whatever.
Why delete the thread titles and why delete the listed price? I get it if someone makes a private offer through DM, but why not just say say 'sold' next to the price? I don't understand the secrecy. Again, it is heavily frowned upon on many other forums with classifieds and exchanges. Just curious why that seems to be standard practice here.
Too often I see the title edited to just 'sold'. The first thought is, 'what sold'? And almost as a rule, when items do sell, the asking/selling price is changed to '$OLD'. I went over the exchange rules a few times and I can't seem to find if it does in fact call for the seller to edit the selling price to $OLD. Again, my first thought is, 'what did it sell for or what was the asking price'?? Now in no way shape or form am I that guy that says, 'well on this forum they do things this way'!! Quite the contrary. It only stuck out to me as deleting the sale price or editing it can lead to a warning/time out/ban on a couple other forums I frequent so I am super cognizant of Exchange rules.
The point I am trying to make, is that by seeing the title and the post's 'sell price' when I search the forum, history or whatever, helps to get a benchmark for the value of things. A historical place to start when listing items or when gauging market value. Or, to simply see what sold. There are a lot of really special and rare things that cross these boards and it would be awesome to see what they sold for or even when the last time one was listed or whatever.
Why delete the thread titles and why delete the listed price? I get it if someone makes a private offer through DM, but why not just say say 'sold' next to the price? I don't understand the secrecy. Again, it is heavily frowned upon on many other forums with classifieds and exchanges. Just curious why that seems to be standard practice here.
