My sales thread pet peeve...deleting prices

[Moodog]

I always just posted a reply to my own sales thread that just said SOLD.

I’m all for keeping the original price in the post but I’ve never understood why people do this. It bumps a sold item to the top of the section.

[MrKittyCatMeowFace]

It will be pushed to the next page within a day?

[Moodog]

People interested in the item already have to read the first post of the thread, why not just just mark it "sold" there?

[martix_agent]

I am in full agreement with this rule. seeing b/s/t threads completely erased, or prices deleted is very frustrating.

[Siress]

This rule needs to apply to QnA as well. Always sucks searching for answers and coming across this guy:

Anyone know how to solve this very specific problem?
...
Nevermind, I solved it!

[Niterocker]

Thats not as annoying as the people who post "what is my stuff worth" just to avoid the "fishing ban".

I’m going to defend this a little bit, maybe because I had an enormous “what is my stuff worth” thread just before MCB Armageddon.

I found a bunch of stuff in my basement closet and honestly had no idea if any of it was worth scratch anymore. And indeed I was shocked to learn that SP wood grips are worth selling.

In fact, I think the solution to this would be to have a “Make an Offer” forum for stuff of unknown/questionable value. I would have rather posted there than to make a “what’s my stuff worth” thread.

Peace.

[Scottybeans]

Agreed. Official. Punishment via stocks in the town square or something similar.

feel like tar and feather is the only reasonable thing to do here

[Siress]

I found a bunch of stuff in my basement closet and honestly had no idea if any of it was worth scratch anymore. And indeed I was shocked to learn that SP wood grips are worth selling.

In fact, I think the solution to this would be to have a “Make an Offer” forum for stuff of unknown/questionable value. I would have rather posted there than to make a “what’s my stuff worth” thread.

Peace.

Agreed. Unless you want to drive everyone that takes a few years off from the sport to another paintball forum or auction site, this seems like the way to go.

I legit have no idea how much most of my gear is going for on the used market. Not only because I've not played much in the past...well...decade... but more importantly I haven't shopped for a paintball gun at all in quite a long time. It's a dangerous thing for me at this point because my inner child wants most of the gear I'll come across. And this place, more than most, pedals in rarities that hardly come up for sale anyway.

[Cdn_Cuda]

Can’t count the times I’ve look for prices in old threads to assess value and just find “SOLD”. Would mind a “make an offer” section either. Maybe limit it to smaller items and not full guns if it’s a concern? Like a way to clear out random bits and pieces.

[Strata]

Yes please. I will never understand why people remove prices once an item is sold. Just strike through your listing/item and leave the price(s) as a source of reference. Would love for this to be an official policy.

[Joshk]

Completely agreed. Coming back to the sport after a decade makes it extremely difficult to figure out what a good price is. I have to almost completely rely on sold eBay listings.

[Axel]

I agree it's annoying, but so are rules about what I can't delete off my own sales thread when it's over and closed.

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[Rusty Brass]

I agree it's annoying, but so are rules about what I can't delete off my own sales thread when it's over and closed.

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Honest question - how would it affect you in the least? Every situation everywhere involving everything comes with rules. What's wrong with the venue that provided you the ability to sell esoteric specialist/fetishist wares asking that tiny little thing of you for the benefit of the same community of fetishising specialists?

[Axel]

It doesn't affect me because I don't sell. It strikes me as a small, non-intuitive rule that's gonna be constantly overlooked and a PitA to enforce.

If you follow Old School Paintball Guns on FB you might remember when Ralph banned batteries. It kept the mods busy for a couple years; now it's mostly ignored because mods are sick of reminding new members fifteen times a day.

Again, .02

[Trueblue]

Ditto. Leaving even the beginning asking price gives someone a baseline to start with. Sometimes I say "whoa, I was way off" and sometimes it's "yup, my guess appears to be right on and fair".

[Big Jim]

I have long wanted this. I know that I often have problems setting a price when selling things, and now I no longer can go back and see what I paid for it.
I don't know if it is possible but on the SolidWorks forum we are able to mark a thread as "answered" so that people know they no longer to look to help. The thread then has a different avatar at the heading. Maybe we can ask if something like that is possible.

[BoBo]

This rule needs to apply to QnA as well. Always sucks searching for answers and coming across this guy:

I see you have been on StackOverflow . . .

[Siress]

Yes. *1000 yard stare*

[chrome]

Compared to a few other forums I'm on, MCB was always actually pretty good about not doing this, relatively speaking.

I absolutely agree that leaving sales threads intact provides a great value to the site hosting the BST forum; in this case, MCB puts it out there for free, so if nothing else providing a little value back to MCB by literally doing no work seems like the least someone selling can do.

On the other hand, just to present the (generally) opposing viewpoint, replacing a price with, "SOLD," or nuking a first post in a sale thread altogether does two main things. First, for those trying to make a side hustle of BST, specifically NOT having a living record of average market prices means that whenever someone goes to sell something they can ask whatever they want and get whatever price the market will support without the hassle of someone bickering about the price being too high (because there is no basis for comparison). Think of it like a really slow rolling reverse auction.

The other thing it does is make it less likely (although apparently from the prior MCB thread discussing people getting PMs out of the blue to sell something they never intended to sell) that a seller will get a random PM out of the blue with an offer or inquiry about the sale status of an item the seller already sold (maybe a really long time ago at that). If someone is searching the forums to buy something and sees someone's sale thread (with prices) and doesn't bother reading down the thread to see if the thing actually sold (or how old the thread is if the sale thread was just abandoned after the sale), folks behind the anonymity of the Internet aren't shy about just sending a message to a person about a dead sales thread (often quickly followed by the OP nuking the thread or in some other way trying to make it painfully obvious in the first post that the thread is dead and for readers in the future to let it die).

Clearly I fall in the camp of keeping the information alive, but there are at least a few reasonably valid points going the other way if you look at it not from the perspective of benefit to MCB and the community herein, but rather from the self-centered view of the seller.