Why won't my knife sell?

Ratman79 said:
I have not sold anywhere close to the volume of some of our members, but I found myself also replacing the price with "sold" or "spf." In the future I am not going to b/c I think it is good for reference or to establish a benchmark. When I was brand new, the Exchange was where I learned a lot about Busse: what the models are, what the acronyms stand for, what I like and most importantly how much they cost. I find the pricing, when left in place, to be immensely helpful in aiding me to price my own stuff or in deciding what to save up for.
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Winning one mind at a time. Thank you. :thumbup:
 
Jaxx said:
It wasn't. Most pretty much agreed that it would be nice to go back to not editing out prices... Nothing changed. ;)
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I have been a member for just over two years and bought a lot of knifes on here and sold a few. I have always changed the price to sold because I was following suit and just thought that was the proper etiquette. I entirely missed the post about not editing prices or it may have been before my time. I find it very interesting that people agreed but then didn't follow through. When I first started buying it would have been awesome to have more prices available to establish market price.
 
jbs121s said:
I have been a member for just over two years and bought a lot of knifes on here and sold a few. I have always changed the price to sold because I was following suit and just thought that was the proper etiquette. I entirely missed the post about not editing prices or it may have been before my time. I find it very interesting that people agreed but then didn't follow through. When I first started buying it would have been awesome to have more prices available to establish market price.
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There have been many threads on this topic. Opinions are certainly divided. Each seller is free to do what feels best for them. We wont start THAT again, here, now. But your comment confirms what I had guessed, that new folk just assumed it was the thing.
 
There are forums that do not allow people to delete the price after the sale. Some watch forums I get on for sure do not.
 
CandlePower Flashlight forums is another board that doesn't allow prices to be edited out.

Cobalt said:
There are forums that do not allow people to delete the price after the sale. Some watch forums I get on for sure do not.
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resinguy said:
There have been many threads on this topic. Opinions are certainly divided. Each seller is free to do what feels best for them. We wont start THAT again, here, now. But your comment confirms what I had guessed, that new folk just assumed it was the thing.
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I do not edit out a price unless for some reason I cut it way under what the knife should have sold for. That keeps a price that I only took because of an emergency from becoming a benchmark for future pricing.
 
sanddragger28 said:
When you are talking value, availability does hurt pricing significantly. Have any busses for half price you want to sell?
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Value is an abstract. One of the folks here put it quite well: a person would be a fool to buy one of his knives for how much he valued them.

Sure. I'll sell my entire collection to you for "half price". I "value" them at $1B; so I'll let them go for $500M. I'll even cover the PayPal fees.



When one SPECULATES, not getting what one speculated one would get is not being "hurt". It merely means one's risk manifested itself in a negative manner.

It happens.
 
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