Why do people delete the price when they have sold their pistol?

[orangeusa]

BTW, to the OP, not a bad question, but the reality is if you don't remove the item completely yourself (just blank out the post info, don't ask moderator to delete), then the post lives and the search engines index it and you get idiot's that don't read pinging you on something you haven't had for a year when they search for item. Especially if it's hard to find/rare, they don't care if it's sold, they ask f you still have, they want to know if you have more, etc. Not worth the hassle, there's a reason craigslist ads disappear when transaction done.

Yup, nothing kills a thread quicker than renaming it "..........."

I repeat - often I remove the selling price because it's over and others did not pay to see what it sold for.

So this whinging about removing the sale price does not make sense. And the best way of pricing your sale is to figure what you have to have for the sale, check GB and if you want a quick sale, price 10% lower than the GB price... Gad it's not that hard.

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[bounty1]

I guess we all make a science out of things that urk us. I thought this thread about the Hatfield's and McCoy's was dead. What the hell! An A for effort for both sides. Winston Churchhill quoted “Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm..Ain't he a wild card..........Peter

[customiiguy]

I do both sometimes I leave up and sometimes I delete it. Never really thought it was a big deal

[devious21]

Yup, nothing kills a thread quicker than renaming it "..........."



I repeat - often I remove the selling price because it's over and others did not pay to see what it sold for.



So this whinging about removing the sale price does not make sense. And the best way of pricing your sale is to figure what you have to have for the sale, check GB and if you want a quick sale, price 10% lower than the GB price... Gad it's not that hard.



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GB prices aren't helpful for anything off-roster because it doesn't reflect our market.

If it was, you'd post a Glock 43 for $450 and not take a tremendous loss.

[Saym14]

because they don't care what you thinkn

[BoJackUSMC]

This thread made it this far.... wow...
need more popcorn

[orangeusa]

GB prices aren't helpful for anything off-roster because it doesn't reflect our market.

If it was, you'd post a Glock 43 for $450 and not take a tremendous loss.

Obvious. Still it's not difficult.

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[Kelvrick]

I came in to see the people who care too much one way or the other argue.

I was not disappointed.

[Fate]

I think I'm going to change my policy. I'll sell the info. Gift me $5 into my PP account and I'll be happy to tell you what I sold it for.

[Packy14]

I think I'm going to change my policy. I'll sell the info. Gift me $5 into my PP account and I'll be happy to tell you what I sold it for.

I'll do the same but my charge will be 100$

[thomashoward]

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[Saym14]

I sold my g42 for tree fiddy!!!!!!

[orangeusa]

Megatrends->Microtrends

The folks who don't care or who tend to remove the price have many iTraders.

The "others" have few.

I could be wrong as it's hard to take this thread seriously.

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[devious21]

I'll just add $100. $200.to the sold price. Everyone's product will be worth more.

The whole point of having more information available is it would simply average out outliers like that you're describing and it wouldn't be a big deal.

Your idea to sandbag the market has much more effect if EVERYONE else decides to remove their information and yours is the only voice.

[devious21]

Why do people delete the price when they have sold their pistol?

The folks who don't care or who tend to remove the price have many iTraders.

The "others" have few.

I could be wrong as it's hard to take this thread seriously.

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It's honestly hard to take seriously that it takes so much explaining to convince people that pricing information is valuable to making an informed decision when pricing something to buy or sell.

It's the same 3 or 4 objections over and over which me and others have addressed.

Discussion is good and if there are legitimate reasons not to leave the information up for the community, there should be a good discussion about it. Instead, there seems to be an unnecessary amount of ego, bravado and stubbornness when discussing this.