Classifieds Question ...

[Fourtyfive]

Maybe I'm stupid , ok , most would agree ... I enjoy looking through the classifieds and seeing what's for sale , what I might have missed ect. Sometimes I'm researching what things sell for to get a value , many members go back after an item sells and delete the selling price or the whole ad. Is there a specific reason for this , am I missing something , is it right in front of me ?

[173rdABN]

Some people don't like others to know what they paid for a product, and some think its just private and no ones business. It can be any number of things. Most the time its worked out in a PM with a different price, sometimes the same price as asking. I personally just leave the price and add up there because like you, I do the same thing and like to know what a good starting price for a product is when I try and list it for the first time. But, to each his own on their reason for doing it.

[DaveTN]

As stated above many have different reasons. But this isn’t an auction site so you really don’t know what a gun sold for. If you want to see what guns actually sold for you can search completed auctions on GB and see how they ended.

[itchytriggerfinger]

Yeah, I really wish people would leave the ad and the asking price.  But PLEASE go back and change the banner to SOLD.  I get all excited to see a post only to find the last entry marked as Sold.  

[Lumber_Jack]

It's really my only complaint on this forum. It drives me nuts. I would like to see what was for sale and the original asking price. I don't understand the purpose of deleting it.

[Fourtyfive]

All the sudden I don't fell so lonely anymore .. :)

[Lumber_Jack]

I understand priced change behind the scenes but I'm OCD and seeing a thread title "sold" with no content is almost more than I can handle.

[hipower]

It's really my only complaint on this forum. It drives me nuts. I would like to see what was for sale and the original asking price. I don't understand the purpose of deleting it.

 

But still want to know at least a city of whom I might want to deal with!!!

All the sudden I don't fell so lonely anymore .. :)

 

You aren't buddy. Inquiring minds want to know.

[TGO David]

I've always chalked it up to people being lazy.  Too lazy to edit the post to amend the fact that it was sold, so they just edit the post, <CTRL+A> to select all, DEL to delete and then add a line saying "SOLD" or some other such statement.

 

Yeah, it's annoying.

[TripleDigitRide]

Guilty!  :hiding: 

[Hozzie]

I am one that removes the price I was asking once an item is sold.  I am pretty much on the side of once a deal is done, it doesn't matter what I was asking.  What people ask and what they sell for are in most cases two different things.  I think it sets a false expectation on future deals if people are looking at how I priced something previously.  I may have priced it lower than I normally would trying to get a quick sale, or I may have been a bit on the higher side looking for a trade.  

 

More than anything , I guess I don't see the value in what someone was asking. 6 months ago or more.  What it sold for is the only thing that matters to me.  I guess I do a lot of looking at current for sale posts when I am looking at guns and use those to determine my price because they are hopefully based on the current market.  Not what the gun was for sale for a year ago.  

 

The only time I remove the whole post is when I had something for sale that I decided not to sell for some reason or another.  In that case, I don't like to leave guns visible to the public.

[R1100R]

I feel the sale price is only for the two parties involved. So, I'm guilty also. :)

[TGO David]

Honestly it doesn't really matter either way.  I can see reasons folks would want to delete particular info, but once Google or other sites index the forum threads -- and they do constantly -- that information is out there.

[Pain103]

 I do like it when people change it to sold so I can just overlook it. But what gets me and really isn't a big deal is not doing the feedback after an transaction.

[TripleDigitRide]

But what gets me and really isn't a big deal is not doing the feedback after an transaction.

I've had that happen a couple times. Now, after the transaction, I send them a PM thanking them for the smooth transaction, while also letting them know that I've left positive feedback for them. Even if they forget, this has worked well as a possible reminder.

[Dolomite_supafly]

I don't mind either way.

 

I will tell you a story from Saiga land though regarding leaving pricing information up. There was a Saiga that was imported and it was never particularly popular. Most sold on sale for under $300 and took forever to sell at that. Well step forward a few years and some random guy who has one decides to sell it but because there was no real pricing data out there he decides to throw a random, and by most accounts ludicrous, number out there. So he put up an ad asking something like $3,800 for this $300 Saiga. Of course it never sold and he was ridiculed off of the website but he left the ad. So step forward a few more years and people who own this $300 Saiga are doing research and now think it is worth $3,800. There was a rash of people selling these based on that old ad. Well over time, because sellers would refuse to sell their guns for cheap thinking they were worth $3,800, the prices started creeping up. And eventually some of those $300 Saigas began to sell for big dollars to most people's amazement. It do not believe it was because the gun was rare or desirable but because someone left up an old ad asking an insane price and that insane price became the new norm.

[Fourtyfive]

Raven Arms .22LR FOR SALE $4,500.00

[Grand Torino]

I don't care either way. I'm trying to live a stress free life.