Is it just me? If an item sells, why is the selling price almost always deleted? It's not like you can see who it was sold to. For example: I have a nice AU 1982 Lincoln cent. Comes with fingerprints. $100 shipped. Next I have a sweet 2004 Jefferson nickel. Some damage. ***SOLD*** Why not: Next I have a sweet 2004 Jefferson nickel. Some damage. $50 shipped ***SOLD Pending Funds*** Why such a secret? I like to see what items I'm interested in have sold for. When I have sold items here I have not deleted the selling price (to my knowledge) Thoughts?
Maybe they have a similar item they may want to sell in the near future and don't want that previous price floating around out there? Just a theory.
Interesting question. Try sending the seller a private message. I would not show the price sold for so that my wife would not see it.
I have been starting to sell in the “for sale” section, and I have noticed that other sellers would mark their item as “sold” and cover up the price. I might leave the price up each time an item is sold but I didn’t know people noticed that.
There are a few reasons I can think of: -the already mentioned one of having another example and not wanting to have the previous price impact the future sale -the person who bought it requests you to remove the sale price (they don’t want others to know or want to resell and don’t want their purchase price to be public) -some people don’t want competitors figuring out their pricing structure -just because you’ve seen others do it and decide to follow along And a question for thoughts: -the item didn’t sell at the asking price, so do you change it to the selling price or keep the asking price and say sold for best offer?
Is your observation restricted to the original asking price? After all, it may have (and I suspect has) sold for a different amount, + or -. Should the seller edit his/her original price to what the item sold for? This suggested method does not really clarify what the item sold for, and would not provide the information you want if it did not sell for the asking price. Again, should the seller then modify the offering to reflect the selling price? What if more items were also purchased by the buyer, during price negotiations with the seller? You would not know this unless the seller modified the Listng. My opinion, and of course that is all it is and is no more or less helpful than any other opinion (and is probably worth much less in usefulness) is; there are many other venues that would provide you a lot more actual sold amount comparative information on an item you are possibly interested in, than the "For Sale" section here. I do not mean to disparage the Boards here or our host, but it is very obvious that the "For Sale" Forum is minor in use, and almost inactive.
You let your wife know you are on Cointalk? Brave man. I don't want to have my wife even see my avatar of pics of recent purchases.....
Wonder if it's an automatic thing...no room or provision as is to format both, so either the sale/asking price or "sold"...something like that...?
It's not automatic; you can edit a for sale post for much longer than a normal post. I've edited some of mine after a few weeks and I could change it to whatever I wanted.
When I tell my wife, I bought a coin. She doesn't want to hear anymore than that. Absolutely has no interest in it and anything I say after that is forgotten. I guess I am lucky. I don't tell her anything about them anymore. When I die and she finds out what's really in that safe I don't think she'll complain. Lol
I think perhaps it isn’t intentional. Just a seller making sure everyone else knows his offerings were spoken for.
"In the for sale section." Where? Here, on Coin Talk, or someplace else? Newspapers and magazine may have a "sold" option label just to keep the seller from being bothered after the item is already sold. Some web sites require you be a member or signed in before showing the sold amount.
As far as I’m concerned, the final sale price is between the buyer and the seller, which it should be.
