F1GTR
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How about stating your point instead of some one line antagonistic comment?
Originally Posted by F1GTR How about stating your point instead of some one line antagonistic comment? |
Originally Posted by bpm2000 yea they are lame. its not that hard to research and figure out an asking price. You can always just set it higher than what you think and keep lowering it if u must. |
Originally Posted by bpm2000 Are you kidding? Because if I were to throw out a really LOW offer price out there and someone bit, it would be wrong for me to disregard his/her offer to buy at the price I put it at. My FS posts are not an auction - this isn't ebay. Maybe I'm not interpreting your post correctly. |
Originally Posted by bpm2000 Sigh, I thought it was fairly obvious but here goes (apologies to anyone who couldn't read my mind out there): Hogwash, due to the fact that we CAN post IC's, even if we don't like 'em. So we in fact CAN BE a part of them (Interest Checks, for those of you keeping score at home) therefor your point about members having a problem with not being able to be a part of it being HOGWASH. I guess if someone had a moral issue with it then that's different but yea we could pick that apart for days. |
Originally Posted by bpm2000 Why don't I like them being a ebay auction? It was inresponse to jjcha's(i think) response to my post. He stated why coudn't I post a low price, like $100 for a pair of SA5000s for instance, and then keeping bumping the price up? (my interpretation of his post) To which I replied you can't because I would honor the first asking price, so I couldn't treat it in that manner like an ebay auction. Clear? Clear..er? |
Originally Posted by wolfen68 Control issues are irrelevant. The moderators/admin do not allow sale for profit. IC's exist only (or mostly) to get around that rule. If the control argument is your gripe, than direct it towards the operators of this site. Since it their show, they set the rules as they wish. |
Holy masterful stating of the obvious here. You're way too literal for me. Let me break it down for you a little bit better so you can understand this. I assumed my novel-like reply on the previous page would have covered this but apparently not. When I say "be a part of them" I mean it as being nosy or meddling in someone else's affairs, not being able to physically create an IC themselves. Please don't patronize me. I think it's pretty obvious that I know someone can go click "Create New Thread" and write up an IC. You're all for someone stating a price they are looking for in a for sale thread? I see this as creating more problems than just listing the item as in IC in the first place for CERTAIN ITEMS(like I covered in response 3 of this thread). Why? Because by listing a price it allows others to make comments and/or pass judgement as to whether the item is really worth what they are asking. It allows others to create threads in "Off Topic" crying about how someone else is asking $1,500 for a pair of headphones when they should only be asking $800 and/or it provides those same people with the ability to PM me telling me I'm asking way too much. Sorry. I choose not to deal with people like this and one way I do that is by listing IC's. |
But he can. Just because you think he should honor the fact that you offered to buy them at $100 doesn't mean he has to sell them to you at that price, especially if someone's already offered him $250. This goes in to the philosophical side of it which I touched on in my long reply. His point was proving that if you went at it the other way you would have more angry people than you do going the IC route. Do you really not see this? |
"yea they are lame. its not that hard to research and figure out an offer price. You can always just set it lower than what you think and keep raising it if u must." |
Originally Posted by F1GTR Please point me to this rule because I can't believe it exists as it is truly absurd. This would only work if head-fi admin were big brother montioring every single purchase we've made outside of head-fi in some kind of database so that they know what we should and should not be selling our items for. Think about this logically for a second. So if I purchase a pair of DT770/80's for $140 used here on the forum but "Bob" bought his pair from someone else for $160 then "Bob" can sell his pair here for $150 but I can only sell mine for $130? |
Originally Posted by Edwood You know the funny thing is that when I first read the title of this thread, I thought it was a lobby to stop Integrated Circuits. As in, the use of discrete transistors and vacuum tubes only. -Ed |
Originally Posted by tattoou2 LOL! I thought it was about interconnects! |