Why do sellers keep sold items on their thread?

[squelchy451]

Sometimes, I'm looking for parts and click open some links, only to find that the part I've been looking for is sold. For me, it reduces the productivity of my part-finding-activity and would be better if the sellers deleted whatever parts were sold.

What is the logic behind this?

 

[GammaProject]

Some sellers like to leave sold items up and listed as sold for a couple reasons, so people can check out what past sales prices for a particular item were (Man i want to sell item_x but not sure what going rate is these days) also having a record in your for sale thread of what got sold can be helpful to people to show what type of item they may or may not be interested in for trades(I don't think he wants a 6850 in trade he just sold one) It could also be as a representative of selling history besides heat.

 

[SirHarlock]

I keep them there in case somebody insists that I didn't describe the item properly. Hasn't happened but it's there just in case.

 

[NoodleTech]

Also, sellers can't change the titles of their threads without the help of a moderator. For sellers who constantly update their FS thread, this is a hassle.

 

[Hotar9978]

The for sale section states that you have to leave a list of what you sold.

 

[klank]

The for sale section states that you have to leave a list of what you sold.

I have read it twice, it says no such thing. Please provide a link to backup your post.

 

[Wingless92]

I just keep updating my post with what is still available. What's the point of telling people what is sold, they don't care. All they are looking for is what you "have" for sale. Seems to be working fine for me.

 

[dbwillis]

I leave my sold items on the thread, but mark them as sold, just so others can see what the item sold for.
Think about it
You want to sell something old to get something new, but cant find a recent price the item went for, you list your older item for your guesstimate price of XX.
Might take you a few price drops to get in the range people are looking to pay for the item, that could be days, weeks or longer.
If you had a recent price to use as comparison for yours, you could have sold it quicker and gotten your new items faster.

 

[klank]

I leave my sold items on the thread, but mark them as sold, just so others can see what the item sold for.
Think about it
You want to sell something old to get something new, but cant find a recent price the item went for, you list your older item for your guesstimate price of XX.
Might take you a few price drops to get in the range people are looking to pay for the item, that could be days, weeks or longer.
If you had a recent price to use as comparison for yours, you could have sold it quicker and gotten your new items faster.

This works if the seller leaves the price that it was sold for. Recently it seems like a good chuck of people are just marking it as sold and removing the sale price, which makes it worthless as "reference".

 

[PaperclipGod]

I leave it as a reference. It annoys me to no end when folks sell an item and then delete the price.

 

[Monkey34]

I also find it an annoyance. I'll be looking for an item, and get results for sold items. Personally, I don't care what you've sold previously, or how much it was. If I'm that concerned, I can get the details when I look up the sellers feedback. I can also comparative shop on my own.....especially if the item's sold price means crap now because it sold a while back.

I want to see for sale/trade, and feedback.

 

[merid14]

I also find it an annoyance. I'll be looking for an item, and get results for sold items. Personally, I don't care what you've sold previously, or how much it was. If I'm that concerned, I can get the details when I look up the sellers feedback. I can also comparative shop on my own.....especially if the item's sold price means crap now because it sold a while back.

I want to see for sale/trade, and feedback.

AMEN! Lets get rid of the "Fluff" so we can buy more stuff! Can we make this a rule? You must remove sold or unavailable items.

 

[Oldie]

The for sale section states that you have to leave a list of what you sold.

No, it doesn't.

Keeping some recently sold items in the thread is perfectly fine, but we generally discourage "everything I've sold for the last 10 years" style lists. It's not against the rules, but if you have a very large (and old) sold list we're going to ask you to remove it. Some people use it simply to keep as many active search terms in their thread as possible and it's something we discourage.

 

[shoota]

I leave it as a reference. It annoys me to no end when folks sell an item and then delete the price.

This. Leaving the price and the date sold helps the whole forum make an accurate assessment of what things are worth. I think it should be mandatory personally.

 

[402blownstroker]

To make the search feature completely useless.

 

[PaperclipGod]

Here's an idea: force all FS/T threads to close automatically after 30 days. Then, add an option on the search page to search closed threads or not.

Makes it easy for folks like me to research past prices, and makes it easy for other folks to filter out old listings.

 

[Wage]

I personally cannot stand when someone removes their selling price after making a sale. What exactly is the point of this? Because it's really counter-productive for future sellers and future buyers both.

 

[merid14]

Here's an idea: force all FS/T threads to close automatically after 30 days. Then, add an option on the search page to search closed threads or not.

Makes it easy for folks like me to research past prices, and makes it easy for other folks to filter out old listings.

I like this idea provided they leave the sale price on the items.

 

[Jimi_Shuffler]

I personally would prefer to have the item still listed but as sold. I get annoyed when the item is just deleted

 

[ThreeDee]

Pertaining to what my particular FS thread contains .. l leave all items up as originally posted so full description and price is still available for the buyer in case he/she has a question on what they bought/are buying .. and then just marking each item as sold or pending.

Then I'll close my thread when all items are sold/traded.

I don't like it when a somebody I am buying something from deletes the item off of their thread as soon as I send them payment. Because of that happening sometimes, I'll copy all that info into pm's that I send the seller so I don't forget what I'm buying.

 

[SylarPowers]

I keep changing it up, cus I want to word the item better or present one more prominatly, so I don't keep the same thread for long, but I only use one at a time. And if it sold, I don't keep a tally like, that's what HEAT is for.

Usually though, I don't bother editing the thread if it sold, only if I'm unsure I want to sell or whatnot. I just start a new thread, kick the old one to the curb or put it on hold and reopen it later, course that means I might have to choose what I want to sell at one given time, or try to combine stuff in the listing, but I don't want to just write "My gear, look inside to see what it is" threads, I like the title to list whats in the thread at all times, extra advertising, like an auction listing. Not everyone clicks everything! I need all the clicks I can get!

 

[engiNURD]

This. Leaving the price and the date sold helps the whole forum make an accurate assessment of what things are worth. I think it should be mandatory personally.

I agree it helps the whole forum, because market research doesn't have that many resources aside from ebay and CL. However, I don't think it should be mandatory.

To make the search feature completely useless.

It's really not that hard to close the tab. Middle click. If you're not using tabs, update to a newer browser. If you don't have enough room in your tab row, get vertical tabs. It's really not that hard. Also, when I see an item I'm looking for that is marked as sold with it's sold price, I know a price range to expect when I find one for sale.

Here's an idea: force all FS/T threads to close automatically after 30 days. Then, add an option on the search page to search closed threads or not.

Makes it easy for folks like me to research past prices, and makes it easy for other folks to filter out old listings.

Great idea! Hopefully someone can implement at least the part about including/excluding closed threads (which would admittedly work much better if the auto-close-thread was enforceable as well). However, I'd like the ability to still unlock the thread and remove active sales that have been moved to the new FS thread, and simply leave the sold items and re-close the thread.

I personally cannot stand when someone removes their selling price after making a sale. What exactly is the point of this? Because it's really counter-productive for future sellers and future buyers both.

I agree, I see no point in having every single item listed, and sold items without prices/dates are really not helpful when doing market research.

I used to have every single thing listed as an archive, but then my list grew too big; and I was actually selling stuff for a longer period of time than I thought I would be, so thats when I started noting the date range on my sold list.

TL;DR: for market price research; it's not that hard to close the tab if it's sold. sold price helps give you an idea as both a buyer and seller of the item you're searching for.

 

[wjogert]

Personally, I appreciate when a seller keeps the SOLD items listed. Nothing sucks worse than searching the forum endlessly for the seller that had "item x" for sale and not having even a trace of it's recent existence. (This happens so frequently that I have to keep a notepad with lists of usernames and the items I might be interested in when I get paid.)

And also, it is nice if they leave the asking price as a reference to future sellers.

 

[sisq0kidd]

I leave recently sold items in my thread with a sold sign next to it, greyed out with its price. But I only do this to items that I opened up the thread with. I don't list historic items that have no relevance to my current thread.

What I don't like is the threads where people list their history of sold items. It gets ridiculously long and I don't need to know what you sold a year ago because 1) you haven't had the item for a year 2) the pricing is no longer relevant 3) you're only doing it to get hits on searches.

But in the grand scheme of things, this isn't really too big an issue for the For Sale forum. I shrug my shoulders and move on to the next thread.

 

[Meleniumshane90]

Also, sellers can't change the titles of their threads without the help of a moderator. For sellers who constantly update their FS thread, this is a hassle.

THIS ^

I always feel bad making the moderators change my post title when I remove things I've sold. That's usually why I change which one I message lol.

Here's an idea: force all FS/T threads to close automatically after 30 days. Then, add an option on the search page to search closed threads or not.

Makes it easy for folks like me to research past prices, and makes it easy for other folks to filter out old listings.

And an excellent idea. I've seen trading threads that are literally 20+ pages long and from 3 years ago. Time to change out your old shit and make a new thread.

*Albeit, It's amusing to see the Athlon XP and Socket A shit that you sold 6 CPU generations ago

 

[Wyluliraven]

I keep my sold list as a secondary post now after reading this thread last week.
Speaking from personal preference, I greatly like to see what people have sold item X for, +/- a few bucks for haggle wiggle room, but it gives something better of a baseline than what fleabay or craplist can provide. We, as a general [H] collective, function at a level above.

 

[Dejahboi]

I prefer to have the seller to keep their post up, as it's some sort of proof to look back into what I have purchased and if it was described well. Just wish there was a way to edit the title on our end.

 

[Manaknight]

And also, it is nice if they leave the asking price as a reference to future sellers.

this 1000 times this. I hate to gouge and i hate to shortchange myself at the same time, when you dont sell for a long time then jump back in, it would be nice to have forum going rates to go off of since sometimes ebay is wildly inaccurate.

 

[Crosshairs]

Here is the long and short of it:

As Oldie mentioned,sold items are allowed to remain in the thread in which they were sold, we do not encourage "carrying" a sold items list into a new thread.

While there is no official rule stating such, if we see a thread that has a sold items list that clearly were not sold from within that thread, we will ask you to edit it out, or may do so ourselves.

The reason for this is that it dilutes the search results, no one wants to search an item only to see its already been sold months ago

as far as leaving the price for the sold items in place,we do not dictate that the price must remain, I know some forums do,but we allow our users much more latitude than some other forums.

I personally like to see it there, for reasons stated above, but again, its up to the user on whether or not they leave it.