All moderators are unpaid volunteers who rely upon all members to pitch in and report posts/threads that need to be moderated. If you open a thread and see that it is open but sold and don't take the couple of seconds as a courtesy to your fellow prime members to simply click the report icon then don't complain about reading sold threads. No one is suggesting you log in simply to report threads but if, as you say, you see them everyday and you do nothing about them to bring them to the attention of the mods then you really don't have a valid complaint.
THis is agree with, i know you can't get to putting a "Lock" on sold items instantly. We are very grateful for the hard work the moderators do.
What I'm asking for is that the item leave the most recent "asking" price visible, even after it's sold.
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Steve, I beg to differ as well. It actually means a lot. Some items simply go unsold. And I know the asking price may have been too high. So sell right away, and although I don't know the exact "agreed to" price I know that it was within market range. I, and others find this information highly valuable.
Besides sometime you just lose an item that you wanted badly, and you jus want to torture yourself a little more by finding out that it also sold for way less than what you were willing to pay. Just burns your ass more. It's like when you know milk is rotten but you have to smell it anyway kind of thing. Haha
I agree. Leaving the last asking price at least helps us determine market value. If I'm shopping for a car, and I drive through 5 car lots, and I see 5 BMW 2010 BMW 3351's all with same mileage, and they all have a sticker price visible on them, then I can get an idea of what I might be paying for a BMW 335i. In the same aspect, if I go to that car company's website, they normally leave the asking price for the car visibible, but put a "SOLD" image on the photo of the car. So I know that their asking price for that car was within market value range enough to to entice a buyer to come in and negotiate.
Sometimes we're trying to sell an item here on PRIIME that cannot be found anywhere else in the world, only on Prime, because the NSX is so rare. I just sold some rare OEM pieces of my car. I wanted to price them fairly. I found several sold in the past, but as always, the asking price was removed. I PM'd 5 sellers and buyers and 2 were kind enough to respond and tell me what they sold their piece for. So, I priced mine accordingly and sold it after a couple of months. Both the buyer and myself were happy with the transaction.
At other times, I've asked buyers and sellers of previous items their selling or asking price, and received no response, so I had NO idea what to price it for.
