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Originally Posted by terjung

To address the removal of sale prices... . The reason I remove the price is twofold. First, it eliminates potential confusion as to what card is what price, but the (much) bigger reason was to give the buyer privacy. If I hit the equivalent of a BIN for what I believe was a steal of a price, I would love for the price not to remain... especially since it will not be recorded on something like VCP. The new owner (who likely picked up the card for less than VCP) can feel good about having that card with a sales record of higher than what he paid... thereby potentially eliminating what has been called the spiralling effect of wanting to purchase below the last purchase price. Anyway, not to go off on that tangent, but suffice it to say that the price is removed so that the buyer can have privacy of their sale price.

I beg to differ. At the time that the buyer purchases the card from you, they should already be happy (since it's a voluntary purchase on their part) and, if it's relevant to them then they've probably already seen the VCP or price-guide values at that time. Deleting the price from your post subsequently doesn't change that. What it does is eliminate anyone from observing in the future what the card sold for. And we are dealing with an essentially capitalistic market here with card collecting. One sale setting an all-time low for a card won't necessarily change the entire market for it, but having these records of sales would be a potentially significant resource to us all. And if they do reflect a changing market, then wouldn't we all be better off knowing that?

And I don't feel that withholding the sale price protects the privacy of the buyer at all, since the majority of the time the buyer isn't identified on the thread.