Market Feedback Why delete prices on items sold?

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Dont seem to understand this popular practice. It will be nice if the quoted price or the actual sale price (even better) is kept in the thread as reference. Good to figure out trends and current market rates. A little bit of transparency can go a long way in keeping the community healthy.
 
Raised this thing many times but sadly enuf nothing happened.

Price mentioned serves as a reference point to many members. Hope the removal of price/cost is avoided soon.
 
ya sometimes when i look to buy an item or sell,then have to google for it in popular sites to see what price they're selling at...and if they don't have it listed,it leads to some inconvenience indeed.
 
i always thought it was necessary to black it out as i saw others doing it :P

otherwise i wouldnt have done it on my sales
 
Have to agree. I dont see any reason whatsoever to blank out the price after the asking price after the item is sold.
 
bigbyte said:
Good suggestion, but ultimately it's the seller's prerogative.
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Exactly.

The point is, at a later date when someone else has put up a sale thread for the same (or a similar item) a tentative buyer might refer to this pricing and starts a debate with the seller claiming "X had previously sold this item for XXX INR sometime back and the pricing is higher on your thread". I'd say, let the seller do all the research prior to putting up his items on sale. Agreed the pricing can be a reference but in cases like these, it has its downsides as well.

I for one always prefer blacking it out to avoid such instances. If it is imposed as a rule to have the pricing on the thread, I don't have problems.
 
^^ Dont agree there Darky.

we have had good amount of discussion on how the seller might get away with either a noobie/fresher here and later we might have another 'I was conned by XYZ' thread.

If at all the sale has taken place, what's the harm in leaving the price untouched..? if a different seller is gonna price a similar item higher than a prev sold one, let the seller be frank about his pricing.

A debate about the pricing would be settled with a simple line 'firm/fixed price' , atleast it wont create any confusion later on.
 
Desecrator said:
Exactly.

The point is, at a later date when someone else has put up a sale thread for the same (or a similar item) a tentative buyer might refer to this pricing and starts a debate with the seller claiming "X had previously sold this item for XXX INR sometime back and the pricing is higher on your thread". I'd say, let the seller do all the research prior to putting up his items on sale. Agreed the pricing can be a reference but in cases like these, it has its downsides as well.
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What's wrong in that. The market section should be fair and if the buyer makes a claim like this the seller should be able to defend his price as according to you, seller must have done his research.

BTW, both buyer and seller can't do research in correct manner if the prices are blanked out.
 
DarkAngel said:
If a seller wants to sell and needs reference pricing there are plenty of threads with similar market threads (live ones) on TE to check reference prices. Else they can put up a request in here to get a reference pricing

http://www.techenclave.com/pc-buying-advice/how-much-can-i-sell-thread-147733.html
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Why go the roundabout way when reliable data is getting accumulated by itself? Stuff like how much time it took for an item to get sold at a certain price for example could help a seller looking for a quick sale and that would be much harder to answer using the "How Much can I sell this for" thread. I think it would be one of the things that improve transparency and help out people who don't keep an eye on the market thread all the time.

But do I agree that its best to leave it to the seller on whether or not to black it out.
 
bigbyte said:
What's wrong in that. The market section should be fair and if the buyer makes a claim like this the seller should be able to defend his price as according to you, seller must have done his research.

BTW, both buyer and seller can't do research in correct manner if the prices are blanked out.
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There is nothing wrong. Like I said before, I'd only do that to avoid the fuss and go about with a debate.

If the buyer can dig up old threads in the market section (and what if he doesn't find one he is looking for? He has to go via the alternate route, no?), he can as well do some research on the present market pricing instead. Much ado about nothing. :|
 
I've wondered about this when I go through threads. It would be better if the price isn't blanked out for future reference. But I don't really see a problem if someone wants to blank it out (can't understand why, though).
 
You should delete the price once sold...

Else you guys are doing injustice for the seller to close the loop for him to take any direction...

This is really wrong...

[sarcasm]
 
Even I wonder sometime.. why is it so? I was searching for few items, and looked at quite few threads.. but alas didn't find the final price at which item got sold. What's the harm in revealing the final price?
 
Desecrator said:
Exactly.

The point is, at a later date when someone else has put up a sale thread for the same (or a similar item) a tentative buyer might refer to this pricing and starts a debate with the seller claiming "X had previously sold this item for XXX INR sometime back and the pricing is higher on your thread". I'd say, let the seller do all the research prior to putting up his items on sale. Agreed the pricing can be a reference but in cases like these, it has its downsides as well.

I for one always prefer blacking it out to avoid such instances. If it is imposed as a rule to have the pricing on the thread, I don't have problems.
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I partly agree with this and also thought that, this could be reason. At least, the buyer will not refer this particular site for pricing, moreover in TE all are welcomed to compare prices for awareness, even it is from other sources.:)
 
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