Honest question, it makes it difficult to gauge something's value when you can't find pricing on past sales. There is a line-through text option, but is there a reason guys completely erase the asking price?
Feedback Why do sellers delete prices when sold?
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To make people like you axe why
Cause scammers take those pictures and screw unsuspecting members into buying their fake items
What does a listed price have to do with the pictures?
I generally delete the whole thread after everything's over.
It used to be done out of courtesy to the buyer. The transaction is/was between the seller and buyer and no one else. It was felt that whatever the buyer paid for something, it was none of anyone else's business. Particularly if the buyer could have been perceived as paying too much.
Conversrely, if the seller were perceived as letting it go too cheap, he didn't want to gain that reputation. Particularly with people that didn't have (and wouldn't have) any skin in that particular game.
The seller's only obligation is to the buyer and himself, no one else.
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Someone will take the picture and then PM someone getting them to think that the seller is reaching out to them…
Happens all the time
It's so there isn't a living record of the price you were asking and it possibly sold for.
Every ad is linked to your profile, states have different rules of what constitutes a business and what requires taxes, there is no reason to leave all of that information out there for potential legal ramifications.
Some members post an ad before including a price, so even the notifications don't include a price.
One webscrape can tell every item a member has listed and the prices for each item if still there.
Data is not safe, treat it as such.
Every ad is linked to your profile, states have different rules of what constitutes a business and what requires taxes, there is no reason to leave all of that information out there for potential legal ramifications.
Some members post an ad before including a price, so even the notifications don't include a price.
One webscrape can tell every item a member has listed and the prices for each item if still there.
Data is not safe, treat it as such.
What Threadcutter said. Plus you have weirdos and bots asking if things are still available on sold listings from years ago.
Don't care what others pay or don't pay.
Once a sale is done then its none of my business what someone paid or got paid.
Once a sale is done then its none of my business what someone paid or got paid.
Also, if you don't delete as much as you can and change it to sold, people will ask if it is still for sale a year later.......
Very valid points, which is exactly why I asked. I hadn't thought about that. Thanks.
I have wished there was a way to filter out threads with the word “sold” so i didn’t have to waste time looking at for sale threads only to get down 10 posts and it says “sold”.
If they were simply deleted then it would probably help sales by making stuff easier to find and see.
If they were simply deleted then it would probably help sales by making stuff easier to find and see.
If you ask me all classified threads should be deleted every 30 days. If it hasn't sold it can be resisted, ebay style
I made some minor changes to my post, but the basic point(s) remain the same.
If you ask me, "For Sale" items should only be able to be bumped twice without a "Price Drop". Then only twice again without another "Drop". I see stuff being bumped constantly, for months and months. It's obvious nobody wants your item for your blue sky price. If something doesn't sell it's priced too high. Really.
I'd rather have the ability to ignore or hide an individual thread, in the PX & regular forums.
THIS^^^^^^. 1000%!! I've wished for that forever. Like that phuking submarine thread. Or "fishing" technical threads by guys that just joined five minutes ago.
@AXMC would be not be happy at all with this rule.
There are numerous ads on here that are years old and they all have one thing in common: they are no longer paying supporters. Here’s an ad almost five years old:
Firearms - .50/20 Rifle Project – component set, tooling, presses, brass ++ (set or part-out) most recent reductions in PURPLE
.50/20 Rifle Project – component set, tooling, presses, brass ++ (set or part-out) most recent reductions in PURPLE - ALL SOLD items have been removed Pic of cartridges – left to right, .50/20 Oscar, .50 BMG, .50 T. W. The first and third are based on the readily-available, 20 mm, Vulcan...
www.snipershide.com
Or an ad active since October 2023 and no change in price since April 2024:
https://www.snipershide.com/shootin...a-updated-package-deal.7190082/#post-12023116
Same guy above has a Swaro spotter started in October 2023 no takers either, of course he offers to have his cock sucked for anyone that challenges his price. lol.
Ads like these clutter up the PX from people that are contributing no money to the site for their dead ads. Maybe after a certain time six months or a year they should be automatically deleted.
You can always put them on "Ignore".
I suspect that Frank and the Mods feel that their time is much better spent on other things. Besides, Frank really dislikes the PX. I think that if he had to do housecleaning, he'd just kill the PX in it's entirety.
I suspect that Frank and the Mods feel that their time is much better spent on other things. Besides, Frank really dislikes the PX. I think that if he had to do housecleaning, he'd just kill the PX in it's entirety.
I'd be fine with it generally... that's my self imposed rule...2 bumps then a price drop. However, there is a point where I've hit the lowest I'm willing to go and that's where you see the bumps continue. I suppose I could just repost at a higher price and work my way back down
Good practice.
People have no idea how to mark their listings just plainly SOLD with the tab provided.
Asking them to pay attention enough to know how to delete a listing is asking a lot it would seem.
Not a huge deal just par for the course.
seeing what a seller was asking over time with subsequent drops gives one a good handle on real world values. if one was looking to buy or sell a same or similar item,that is very helpful. wouldn't seem to harm a current buyer or seller.
First off you can't list a damn thing because you are riding for free.....secondly nobody asked you for your opinion.....ebay style! Besides who says the item sold for what it was listed for, should sellers have to edit their post with the actual sell price too?
It's so Elon's DOGE can't track my Paypal Friends and Family Payments when they're supposed to be for Goods & Services and put me on the naughty list for tax evasion.
The people not smart enough to understand why people delete price info( like the OP) are types of people that learn the hard way why it's done.
I thought Frank banned you?
Deleting prices or not, not a big deal to me. I'd rather have people work on changing their listing's prefix to "SOLD" instead of just saying "SOLD" in their original listing.
within their original listing.
within their original listing.
Most likely this is true, there’s a guy here that has dozens and dozens of positive feedbacks on here selling and buying very expensive stuff as soon as he sells the item(s) he deletes his ad and no record of any PX ads looking at his history.
I may do the same once the item is delivered and the buyer is satisfied. Not that I would ever do the kind of volume the tax man would be interested in, but one never knows...
