[Oscar_Stanage]

Originally Posted by Leon

No nefarious intent behind the rule against commenting in the BST areas. It's common courtesy. Comments can totally screw up a sale. However, benign or positive comments are welcomed. It's a "Net54" thing, I guess.

And btw, it is a written rule and has been one for at least 10 yrs, if not more. No one reads the rules under the RULES icon though.... smh

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to clarify my original comment.... I was not necessarily referring to B/S/T here, but rather the general 'unwritten' rule not to comment on a sale. this happens all the time on FB where sellers police and complain in the comments section.

A seller should have no issue defending their price publicly from trolls or general comments. They do not want to because profit is made primarily by selling to uninformed buyers. two regular examples I see are:

1) old slabs with cards clearly overgraded in today's market listed at prevailing market. of course, a seller does not want sunlight to shine in on this as it might lead a prospect to investigate grading.

2) raw cards with back paper loss listed as "EX". why is it problematic for someone to say "any paper loss by definition cant be EX"?

I overpaid for cards for both of these reasons in the past, simply because I was a noob. I don't understand why it is an issue to call people out for BS.

Anytime I have had comments on a sale, I basically responded with "my card is $50 because of X/Y/X." I don't see the big deal.