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Thank you very much for leaving the prices up in your post even after you sold the yo-yos.
Iām sure thereās a reason somewhere that might make some logical sense? But so far I havenāt figured it out.
It seems like a good number of people when theyāre selling anywhere from one to 40 or 50 yo-yos, for whatever reason feel compelled to post the word sold in caps and the price that they sold it for just vanishes.
Iām not saying that should be against the rulesā¦ But that being said, I think the prices that things go for on the day they are sold, could be useful(could be) to others moving forward as they might be wanting to sell their yo-yos.
I understand and everybody should understand that because of yo-yo sells for a certain amount of money that doesnāt necessarily establish it exact value. The person selling the yo-yo may need money, bad enough and fast enough that they are willing to sell the yo-yoās at less that they could actually bring because they need money more than they need the yo-yo and they need money quick.
For example, a guy has a canvas yo-yo. Everybody that finds out he has a yo-yo tells him that yo-yoās worth $500. Andā¦ That may be the current value of that yo-yo. But if the seller just had a duck fly through his windshield And he needs $300 to replace the glassā¦ Then that canvas may just be sold for 300 bucks for obvious reasons. So there are gonna be exceptions here and there where you canāt use or justify the price a yo-yo is sold for on the BST as the active value of the yo-yo in those circumstances where the seller needs to liquidate to raise money
But putting aside the exceptions made for people that are trying to generate money in a hurry, I think like in this thread when a guy is selling 50, 60 yo-yos or whatever, it just seems that leaving the prices on each line item, and just putting the word sold in caps next to the asking price, could be more useful to othersā¦ Not as a benchmark value, but as a comparable value when they decide to cash in some of their stuff.
Iāve messaged people over the years and asked them something straightforward and simple like, ā I noticed you already sold your yo-yo. But I was curious why you didnāt leave the price up?
And I received answers similar to this one> I edit the price out because I donāt wanna confuse people that may think the yo-yo is still for sale. <> I will get back to them and say hey thanks a lot for the answerā¦ But Iām wondering how many people would have a brain are gonna be confused when right next to the price the word sold is typed in in CAPS?
Hereās another one<> one guy told me when he sells a yo-yo. He deletes the price because he feels the prices just clutter up the BST. <> personally Iām not sure why a person would even bother to give a response like that? To me, thatās about as bright of an answer as some family that has almost everything they own, laying out on the front yardā¦ And when their son comes home, he lays his bicycle on the front lawn because it doesnāt have a kickstand. And his father screams out through the kitchen windowā¦ Bring that bicycle around the back. I donāt want the neighbors to think weāre a bunch of hillbillies.Lol
Anyway, I think itās great that the prices are left up after the yo-yos are sold if nothing else as a loose reference. Not as a final price etched in stone. Not so that some guy that wants to buy summit can copy and paste of BST and tell a seller in the future, we look at this year Iām not paying more than this because this is what this guy sold it for. That price that a particular yo-yo was sold for like I said, may have extenuating circumstances where the person was willing to sell it for maybe less than it was worth or needed money so desperately maybe they sold it for more than they thought it was actually worth because they needed the money?
Bottom line is, I donāt think thereās any reasonable or logical explanation for why somebody will sell something and just not leave the selling price up?
I understand there are arguments that can be presented. One being and letās use a canvas again as an example. The canvas in this BST sold for $850. The seller had just purchased a yo-yo recently for also $850 and just didnāt think it was his cup of tea and wanted to get his money back. No more no less just recoup his initial investment. We donāt know the exact value of that yo-yo. Upmanu may have paid that much because he felt it was worth it? He may have paid that much because he knew it was worth that much? Or he may have paid that much thinking it maybe actually be worth more so he knew he wasnāt gonna lose anything? Or he mightāve recognized it as a fair market value for that particular yo-yoā¦ Knowing that if it didnāt turn out to be his favorite yo-yo, he at least he would be able to step out from under what he paid? Iām not a mind reader, so I donāt know the exact answer to that?
But still, the price has value as a reference to what a canvas might be sold for.
Just writing canvas for sale $850ā¦. Several days laterā¦ Canvas SOLD.
ā¦. so somebody lands on the thread several days later and just see canvas sold. No price attached to the item. Generating an unnecessary mystery and assisting potential buyers to just stay in the dark while theyāre trying to figure out how much theyād be willing to pay for the next canvas that comes up for sale.
Many people that are in the market to buy something or sell something for that matter will use search engines on the Internet to try to reference prices of other items bought and sold for whatever prices they fetched?
This thread is an excellent example of an organized list of items for sale and the SOLD as yo-yos are sold.
Very clearā¦ Very organizedā¦ An informative referenceā¦ And doesnāt clog up anything.
Matter of fact, the only thing thatās clogging up this thread is my long-winded explanation that most people wonāt care about anyway. If nothing else and youāve read this far just reinforce in your mind that thereās no such thing as too much good information.
Every move every decision everything you do in life you have two choices. You are either part of the problem or you step in to be part of the solution..
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Yeah its a pet peeve of mine when people remove the price. I just dont get it either. I have gone to posts and have done the tedious exercise of scrubbing through edits trying to find the exact point the price went from a number to āSOLDā.
As you said, its good to have these datapoints and I do not know why this isnt standard practice. How can it harm anyone to know what something sold for.
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