Q: Why remove price when item is sold?

[beeatnik]

I just always assumed cats were trying to get Chris King, Mavic and Enve off their trails. That EP pricing, yo.

[huck*this]

I leave the prices up as its easier to copy and paste into the SOLD section I create. 9 times out of 10 it sold for lower than my asking price. Either I give discounts for buying multiple items (easier and quicker to ship items to the same place) or they are just not of use to me anymore and I will do everything in my power to avoid evilBay. If it stays in the Paceline community, and helps someone that can actually use it, rather than sitting in what used to be a parts bin but now turned into a whole room, bonus points all around.

To each their own. Doesn't bother me keeping the prices up or deleting them. But as E stated, when someone says that it sold here for X price on ebay or I can buy it from the overseas fronts for a few bucks more that is annoying.

[SoCalSteve]

Originally Posted by Dale Alan

When I see the price removed my first thought is the seller feels like they screwed somebody... Either in the past ,present, or plans to do it again in the future . Just my opinion of course,I believe in honesty and full disclosure. If a person feels good and honest about how they do business why hide anything ?

Or maybe the seller sold the item for much less than the price they asked originally...

[huck*this]

Originally Posted by SoCalSteve

Or maybe the seller sold the item for much less than the price they asked originally...

Or the item is sold and the price is irrelevant as it is no longer for sale.

[Don49]

I like the way it's done on the watchuseek.com sales forum:

"You must leave all ad content including the asking price after you sold your items for future references."

[SoCalSteve]

Originally Posted by Don49

I like the way it's done on the watchuseek.com sales forum:

"You must leave all ad content including the asking price after you sold your items for future references."

Even if it's the wrong reference? Makes no sense...

[acoffin]

I have not sold much on this forum, but I have on others and always leave the price. Forum prices tend to be lower than ebay market value. But we are still part of the greater market and leaving the asking price (just like best offers on ebay, you cannot always see what the actual selling price was) is a benefit to the comunity. I see no community benefit (or personal, for that matter) in the prices being removed.

[Vonruden]

I'm in the camp of who cares, it's the sellers perogative if they want to leave or delete. I don't get the fuss either way. Just my two pennies.

[Dale Alan]

Originally Posted by SoCalSteve

Or maybe the seller sold the item for much less than the price they asked originally...

So be it. Is it ego maybe ? I often GIVE AWAY bikes/components,I am proud of that fact...not embarassed because I did not get rich or stick it to fellow bike lover.

[Dale Alan]

Originally Posted by acoffin

I have not sold much on this forum, but I have on others and always leave the price. Forum prices tend to be lower than ebay market value. But we are still part of the greater market and leaving the asking price (just like best offers on ebay, you cannot always see what the actual selling price was) is a benefit to the comunity. I see no community benefit (or personal, for that matter) in the prices being removed.

Exactly,when pricing an item many times a seller will search the forum they are posting to to get an idea of what similar items have sold for in the past to judge what the market is.Same thing folks do on ebay and other sites like that.

[rnhood]

I remove the price unless the buyer specifically request that it be left up. And they rarely do that. Its not really other people's business what someone pays. They can post the price they paid if they want.

[AngryScientist]

Originally Posted by Vonruden

I'm in the camp of who cares, it's the sellers perogative if they want to leave or delete. I don't get the fuss either way. Just my two pennies.

yea, i'm in this camp too.

what is more helpful is when the seller does update an ad with SOLD items, so if i'm searching for something, i know right away if it's available or not.

as a matter of fact, if an ad is for a single item or two, i would prefer to see the title of the ad amended to SOLD so i can skip right over it without opening it.

but as Vonrudden said - it's no big deal to me either way.

[marciero]

Originally Posted by eBAUMANN

This is not a forum for PUBLIC sales...everything here is bought and sold through PRIVATE sales between 2 (or sometimes 3, 4) parties...thats it. The terms of the sale are dictated by these individuals at that time and should have no future bearing on any future sales of the items in question or any others like it.

Debatable whether you could consider this private forum, or what the distinction between private and public might even be. Even ebay has "make offer". But public, private matters little. It's still a market. Advertised prices, whether they differ from the actual sale price or not, give information on the market. Even if that information is not shared, it correlates with future sales prices, at least in the sense of averages over many sales. Every market is subject to fluctuations, has outlier prices, etc. My impression of the market value of something is usually informed by dozens of listings, not a single one.

On the other hand, I dont have a problem with sellers removing the price or deleting if they want to.

[Climb01742]

Originally Posted by acoffin

I have not sold much on this forum, but I have on others and always leave the price. Forum prices tend to be lower than ebay market value. But we are still part of the greater market and leaving the asking price (just like best offers on ebay, you cannot always see what the actual selling price was) is a benefit to the comunity. I see no community benefit (or personal, for that matter) in the prices being removed.

+1

I see us as being a community that has a small commercial aspect. Leaving prices, in my view, benefits the community as a data point--not the definitive, be-all, end-all data point on price/worth, but one data point among many. It adds to our knowledge.

Removing the price, in my view, prioritizes the commercial aspect rather than the communal aspect. Benefiting the seller, not the group.

Yeah, this isn't a huge deal, but it does feel like a small step toward making selling stuff more important than connecting with and helping each other. Though I wish folks would leave the prices, I wouldn't want it to be a rule. Let folks decide for themselves...different strokes and all that.

[oldpotatoe]

Originally Posted by brockd15

This is true, but my assumption is that if it did sell for lower it wouldn't be that much lower. A little, but not half, so the original posted price is still relevant.

THIS marketplace is all over the place, price wise. Throw in 'worth' and 'used', whether or not you keep the price there doesn't matter. $150 for a CRecord rear der may be 'worth' it to me but not to you. This isn't ebay, so I leave the $..'in the grand scheme of things'(a phrase that needs to be in the 'terms I hate thread)..it just doesn't matter. IMHO, of course.