Why remove the sale price?

PeteH

PeteH

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I see this a lot. In the exchange, the moment something sells the seller replaces the selling price with the word sold. Why? It can be very useful, both for buyers and sellers, to be able to look through old threads to see what people are paying for different models. It seems to me that this is a holdover from the dark days of Liu Kang, who didn't want anyone to be able to go back and see what he paid for knives that he was now listing for more, so he would request that the seller remove the price from the sales thread. Why not leave the prices in threads so that we can all use them for reference?
 
This question comes up frequently here. There is no explanation.
It would be nice if everyone was on the same page and would leave the price listed.
But alas, we can't always get what we want.
 
I don't think it matters , if you paid say 750 for a knife and wanted to resell it for 750 and someone else who was desperate for money sold theirs for 500 now you are holding someone to a price based on a unique situation, I realize I could have explained that much better but hopefully you get the point
 
Easy thing to remove 'editing' privileges in the trading forums.

Always nice to have a history of what things sold for, but I see Mikeynyc's point. I have yet to buy any expensive custom blades, but the 8 or so production models were just a judgement call from retail prices.
 
There is a sticky of what they all sell for originally.

Hope that helps.
 
I see both sides of the argument and really did not like it at first, but have adjusted and do not mind that rule.
 
AddictedToGear said:
I see both sides of the argument and really did not like it at first, but have adjusted and do not mind that rule.
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I honestly did not like it at first either but after you are "in the market" for a while it dosent matter because you know what something should cost and you also know what you are willing to pay for certain grails, I have over paid for a handful,, I knew I was overpaying but I didn't care, I just wanted what I wanted when I wanted, so IMO Alot of things come in to play to determine price and what someone else recently sold for is not such a good indicator
 
supply and demand. I leave my prices in on anything I sell, always will. But again, it all boils down to what someone is willing to pay. Just my 2cents.
 
Why not remove all the prices on all the sale threads after they sell? On the market the knife is only worth what you can sell it for at the time. The old prices are irrelevant.
 
I like the idea of leaving at least the asking price. If you don't want to - i guess that is your prerogative but I like my gunboard where the rule is you MUST leave your price up. Maybe people who are REALLY in the know will know what something is worth but I like to be able to browse history ;). Just my .02.
 
Want to keep the prices that the seller is selling after the item is sold? Just quote the seller and his/her price and it will stay there for others to view long after the seller removes the price.
 
LadyEarth said:
Want to keep the prices that the seller is selling after the item is sold? Just quote the seller and his/her price and it will stay there for others to view long after the seller removes the price.
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Only if you are the one buying the item otherwise you have no business quoting in the thread. And who is to say that price is what the item sold for. People drop prices all the time, are you going to quote them all? What is to say that the OP did not change the price of an item after it sold?

Where is my dead horse?
 
RUNIT said:
Only if you are the one buying the item otherwise you have no business quoting in the thread. And who is to say that price is what the item sold for. People drop prices all the time, are you going to quote them all? What is to say that the OP did not change the price of an item after it sold?

Where is my dead horse?
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The point of my suggestion is if everyone that is buying quotes the price, the prices will remain and the sellers will realize that there is no longer a point in removing the price since the buyers are quoting the prices, thus locking the information down for the public to see indefinitely.

And besides, even a person with a question or has a serious consideration for the sharp object can quote it before deciding to buy or not. (The suggestion does not include trolls that does it for bubbles and giggles).
 
Since there is no rule on whether or not prices should be left up after a sale is complete, and I'm pretty sure that there never will be, the choice is left to the Seller. Yes, I suppose that the Buyer could quote the price, and again, that's up to that person. If you really want to know the CMV of a particular knife, start your own list on your own 'puter, and when you catch a price on a knife that you have an interest in whether for buying or for selling yours, add it to your own list. That's about as good as it's gonna get. While I prefer to see what a knife went for, it may not have actually gone for that. Instead, perhaps a partial trade was taken, or perhaps a negotiated price was accepted rather than the listed price...or perhaps a full trade with the Seller having to add cash was accepted, etc. Should a Seller state this too? More than wanting to know, I'd rather the freedom of choice. :)

Personally, I always have left sold prices up in a lighter shade of gray next to a red colored SOLD indication changed from the price orginally in green (so that others know that they are already sold), and plan to keep doing that with future listings. I also sometimes move that sold info (model, combo, price) to the bottom of the post so it doesn't confuse a potential Buyer on what is gone and what is still available...my "fine print" confuses enough already. ;):D I do think though that if I accepted goods and cash/full trade/trade plus cash from me, or whatever instead of my listed cash price, I might feel that my original listed price should be taken out since that's not what I accepted...and therefor it isn't accurate any longer.
 
RUNIT said:
Why not remove all the prices on all the sale threads after they sell? On the market the knife is only worth what you can sell it for at the time. The old prices are irrelevant.
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No, the old prices aren't irrelevant. If I want to sell a knife, and I haven't been watching the exchange for months, it's nice to be able to get an idea of what the knife is selling for these days. And, if I'm a buyer, particularly a new buyer, it would be nice to see whether people are actually paying what someone is asking. I don't see that removing the price serves any purpose whatsoever.
 
I've recently decided to not remove the prices from my listings. When selling, what does it matter to me if someone knows what price I sold an item for? I would already know what I sold it for and hopefully remember what I bought it for and now the item isn't mine anymore anyway.
 
I leave my prices. The history is relevant as it helps establish the "market". More info is better as far as I'm concerned but it is not a hill to die on.

I used to remove my prices, but have since reformed. :)
 
Knowing the pricing makes it easier to follow pricing trends, there are enough different models that knowing the value of each over time it a lot to remember.
 
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