[MikoLayer]

While certainly not limited to head-fi, I noticed people over at FS/FT forums remove the asking price on the item up for sale once the item is sold. I am genuinely confused why people would have to do so, unless there is some sort of unwritten rule I am not familiar with. This only makes it harder for other prospective sellers to get any idea what their item is worth in the market terms. It gets worse for the forums where price checking threads are not allowed (not sure about head-fi, but some of the bigger boards definitely do not allow this AFAIK).

Honestly, I fail to see if there would be any potential benefit to this behavior, not that I think they do it with some sort of malicious intent. Am I missing something here?

 

[ka-boom]

Have you asked the person selling the item directly why they do it?

Did you see this? http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f11/wh...r-sold-422171/

 

[Aimless1]

This topic has been discussed ad nauseum ... seems like once a month or once every other month. Here is an old thread.

 

[PFKMan23]

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f11/wh...t=remove+price

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f11/wh...t=remove+price

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f11/po...ml#post3095397

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f11/mo...t=remove+price

 

[CDBacklash]

there was a thread like this a while ago.
could be any reason. its just a habit from audiogon i think.
another possibility is that the biggest bargain goes first, and may make other items look expensive.

 

[TheMarchingMule]

Aw, you two beat me to it.

 

[MikoLayer]

Great info guys, I much appreciate it. Sorry if this is a repost, I was unaware of that.

Will read all of it, thats the least I can do

 

[ka-boom]

Quote:

Originally Posted by MikoLayer /img/forum/go_quote.gif Am I missing something here?

I think you're missing the magical "search button" in your browser window.

 

[MikoLayer]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ka-boom /img/forum/go_quote.gif I think you're missing the magical "search button" in your browser window.

Yes, I was being a bit lazy, guilty as charged. But what would any forum be without a handful of reposts? Sometimes reposts do have their merit of revealing other relevant bits of information in the form of different responses.

Now I see why they do it, but not necessarily agree with this practice. vcoheda's post in the first link made it all clear for me.''

As for directly asking previous sellers, I have done it with my all the other items. But to form a good idea of what constitutes a "fair" starting price, I would have to repeat this with multiple people, sending the same unsolicited messages out of the blue. Not only tedious for myself, but potentially intrusive to others. Gotta be a better way, I thought.

 

[Kirosia]

I'm the one who goes through the different threads and does this.

 

[krmathis]

While I am confused why this question come up every month or so!

Please search...

 

[apatN]

^ If not more frequent than every month.