Deleting prices after an item has sold

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by freakhappy

Wow...congrats on the Mantle! I'm looking forward to the day when one arrives at my doorstep

As far as the original topic goes...I tend to side with leaving the sale price up for future purposes and also it allows me to gain more knowledge about the card(s) up for sale. I do, however, understand if someone wants to delete it, but let's be real, most of the cards have a relatively known price point and it's no secret....so why be so hush hush about any of it? If anything, keeping the price hidden only harms future buyers/collectors because that allows sellers to create a new price that they could easily take advantage of buyers that don't have a lot of info on certain cards. Yes, that example can be a bit extreme, but it's true. In the present, we are allowed to do what we please as far as leaving and deleting prices go.

Good discussion and let's keep enjoying this wonderful site and hobby we all share!

For all the posters who say asking price means nothing..there seems to be a lot of people on cards on b/s/t when there is no price listed always saying 'whats the asking price'........if asking price isn't important..why do you ask..why not just make an offer like the seller wants.....buyers usually want an asking price.....sometimes an asking price will make a buyer not interested at all.......anyway theres more than Zero information learned by knowing the asking price.....

Originally Posted by 1952boyntoncollector

For all the posters who say asking price means nothing..there seems to be a lot of people on cards on b/s/t when there is no price listed always saying 'whats the asking price'........if asking price isn't important..why do you ask..why not just make an offer like the seller wants.....buyers usually want an asking price.....sometimes an asking price will make a buyer not interested at all.......anyway theres more than Zero information learned by knowing the asking price.....

Now your moving the goalposts. Yes, asking price is important...when a card is still available for sale. It's useless otherwise, and potentially misleading as I've already explained. Clearly there will never be a consensus on this so why keep it going?

[pencil1974]

Exactly, let people handle their own BST threads the way they want. If you want to put your sold prices in 72 pt Helvetica Extra Bold Extended and put them in the title of YOUR thread, have at it.

But if I want to take the price down, I will and there is nothing anyone can say or do to change that. Just the way it is. My only ask would be not to hi-jack someone else's BST as I've seen a few people do.

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by pencil1974

Exactly, let people handle their own BST threads the way they want. If you want to put your sold prices in 72 pt Helvetica Extra Bold Extended and put them in the title of YOUR thread, have at it.

But if I want to take the price down, I will and there is nothing anyone can say or do to change that. Just the way it is. My only ask would be not to hi-jack someone else's BST as I've seen a few people do.

I have said you can do what you want...never said you have to do anything regarding not putting the asking price after a card has sold...its your choice...why do you imply that im telling you what to do? My posts consistently say you can do what you want..

there have been other posters here that agree with me and may start listing their asking prices...... someone said asking prices dont matter...so i was making the point that they appear to matter more than zero because people keep asking for the a sellers asking price before making an offer as just one example that they might means more than zero...


"Now your moving the goalposts. Yes, asking price is important...when a card is still available for sale. It's useless otherwise, and potentially misleading as I've already explained. Clearly there will never be a consensus on this so why keep it going?"


I am not moving the goalposts..it was directly on point......and we already handled that an asking price of a card thats sold isnt misleading at all...people know the difference between asking price and sale price...plus its misleading when seller says that a card consistently sells for $600 when there are 2 prior sales where the asking price was $300 a month earlier , but no asking price is now listed.......basially you cant say having an asking price is misleading without addressing that the fact deleting information can also result to misleading info..
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Originally Posted by 1952boyntoncollector

I have said you can do what you want...never said you have to do anything regarding not putting the asking price after a card has sold...its your choice...why do you imply that im telling you what to do? My posts consistently say you can do what you want..

there have been other posters here that agree with me and may start listing their asking prices...... someone said asking prices dont matter...so i was making the point that they appear to matter more than zero because people keep asking for the a sellers asking price before making an offer as just one example that they might means more than zero...


"Now your moving the goalposts. Yes, asking price is important...when a card is still available for sale. It's useless otherwise, and potentially misleading as I've already explained. Clearly there will never be a consensus on this so why keep it going?"


I am not moving the goalposts..it was directly on point......and we already handled that an asking price of a card thats sold isnt misleading at all...people know the difference between asking price and sale price...plus its misleading when seller says that a card consistently sells for $600 when there are 2 prior sales where the asking price was $300 a month earlier , but no asking price is now listed.......basically you cant say having an asking price is misleading without addressing that the fact deleting information can also result to misleading info..
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Yes, yes I can. You seem to be implying that the only way for someone to estimate market value is by finding previous BST threads where the exact same card has been listed for sale (without acknowledging that information is useless and furthermore misleading if the cards sells for $300 but shows up in thread as $600 SOLD), which is so completely asinine that it's unworthy of discussion...yet at the same time seems to be your best argument. Let it go man.

[1952boyntoncollector]

Originally Posted by Gobucsmagic74

Yes, yes I can. You seem to be implying that the only way for someone to estimate market value is by finding previous BST threads where the exact same card has been listed for sale (without acknowledging that information is useless and furthermore misleading if the cards sells for $300 but shows up in thread as $600 SOLD), which is so completely asinine that it's unworthy of discussion...yet at the same time seems to be your best argument. Let it go man.

No I am not implying its the best method...I am implying its just one possible way to ascertain some information on the card, or at least knowing more than having 'sold' in the forum

I don't think anyone thinks I ever implied that b/s/t asking prices is the best method to estimate market value at the time of the sale.......I do think seeing 'sold' is useless though.....

Do you at least acknowledge the information regarding asking price could be misleading as pointed out in my example? It's a yes or no question, no need to qualify your answer with anything more than yes or no.