XYZ thread: good or bad?

[coomber]

Danish prices are radically different than UK prices, and there is virtually no retro scene here. My explosive frame would be "worth" about 20 quid for someone who would make it a commuter that they could leave outdoors year round and never service. I would rather it found a good home and would be appreciated and ridden off-road.

If you want £25 for it let me know

 

[Kona Paul]

It's always going to be one of the most commonly asked sort of questions. The problem is that you don't know what's being asked until you get to the end of the thread. As it has got so huge, perhaps the way forward is to have a separate discussion forum. Then folks could put whatever they were asking about in the title of the thread and maybe garner a bit more interest?

Not a bad idea if it's feasable. With so many pages, you might call the thread a succes in at least one way. So if the interest is there, it might warrant that. I agree the problem is that you can't see what is being asked about or posted for sale. If it was in the subject heading it would generate a lot more interest for the individual items.

 

[Kona Paul]

Danish prices are radically different than UK prices, and there is virtually no retro scene here. My explosive frame would be "worth" about 20 quid for someone who would make it a commuter that they could leave outdoors year round and never service. I would rather it found a good home and would be appreciated and ridden off-road.

If you want £25 for it let me know

LOL I'm pretty sure it'd fetch more than that. It's actually a different frame that is 100% for sale. That one is only a maybe and thus was used as an example (so as not to abuse this forum to post a for sale item.)

 

[Kona Paul]

I think what would be helpful (dodging the question of the xyz thread) is for people to post in their 'for sale' posts the prices the things they sold actually went for. This would create a searchable record of sale prices over time. It's what I do , as shown here (amongst other threads).


The downsides? Perhaps embarrassing to seller or buyer? Could create false expectations if someone pays crazy money for something (high or low)? Open to abuse if a seller decides to lie about the prices they sold things for? In spite of those possibilities, I still reckon this is the way forward.

Also not a bad idea, despite the anticipated downsides. But again, if it's something you don't see too often, there really is no record to be created or found. I'm happy to see conversation generated and ideas flowing though.

 

[coomber]

Danish prices are radically different than UK prices, and there is virtually no retro scene here. My explosive frame would be "worth" about 20 quid for someone who would make it a commuter that they could leave outdoors year round and never service. I would rather it found a good home and would be appreciated and ridden off-road.

If you want £25 for it let me know

LOL I'm pretty sure it'd fetch more than that. It's actually a different frame that is 100% for sale. That one is only a maybe and thus was used as an example (so as not to abuse this forum to post a for sale item.)

If I were you and you were that undecided on a price for the frame you are selling I'd keep bumping it in the XYZ thread for now and see what happens. Someone might eventually let you know what they think it is worth

 

[Makrie]

Also not a bad idea, despite the anticipated downsides. But again, if it's something you don't see too often, there really is no record to be created or found.

Absolutely. Though to me that is just a reason for people to begin inserting actual sale prices now ! Imagine if this idea had been forum convention from the beginning - the historical price record would be fantastic! Of course some things would always come up that had never been seen before, but still...

That said, it's a bit of a chicken and egg situation, since even if folk will post the actual sold price after they sell something, how do they know what to list it at in the first place when the system is just getting off the ground?!

 

[stew-b]

I think what would be helpful (dodging the question of the xyz thread) is for people to post in their 'for sale' posts the prices the things they sold actually went for. This would create a searchable record of sale prices over time. It's what I've done , as evidenced here.


The downsides? Perhaps embarrassing to seller or buyer? Could create false expectations if someone pays crazy money for something (high or low)? Open to abuse if a seller decides to lie about the prices they sold things for? In spite of those possibilities, I still reckon this is the way forward.

that is already a requirement of the for sale thread,you are supposed to leave the sale price visible after it has sold.

 

[jimihendrix]

I agree it doesn't work very well. I used to try and help but my scope was limited.

Same here, did try to help but a couple of my "guestimates" on the less common things were proved to be way off so decided it was best to keep out :roll: .

 

[Makrie]

that is already a requirement of the for sale thread,you are supposed to leave the sale price visible after it has sold.

Wow, so it is! My apologies - I know I read the 'For Sale' rules before writing my ads, but somehow forgot that one (or forgot that reading that rule was the reason I put the sold prices in my ads!).

A lot of ads don't keep the sale prices in them - and also sometimes - especially where offers are invited as well as a price being given - you don't know what the part in question actually went for...

 

[jimjim2012]

i'm not sure what you could do apart from have an excel sheet or something like that in the archives giving a guide price on the 'usual suspect' type of items...but then it would read something like

judy fsx forks = £100 - £400

meh, keep the thread going and try and get it to 1000 pages.