[DENIED] Disallow price ranging in the market

I've brought this up in the past and the argument was the same as for all sketchy/scummy "get in the door" practices. That it's just business tactics that we shouldn't interfere with.

So I support, but looks like the community likes the little tricks to get an edge on their competition.

 

Support, price range shouldn't be more than 5c in my opinion, you shouldn't be able to advertise a price you will never actually offer, as that is false advertisement.

 

Free market.

I mean I don't really need to say anything else, we all know where this is going.

 

Support, Does seem like a backdoor to the false advertisements.

 

Don't support, from what I've seen sythe is a free market.

 

Free market doesn't mean people get to advertise prices that they will never actually use, it is false advertisement don't be ignorant.

 

I wouldn't say it's an unfair marketing tactic, nor false advertisement. If they're advertising they're buying/selling around a certain price range, then that's fine as long as they are doing that. We're already strict as is, and prices fluctuate all the time, so why should we crack down more when their isn't an issue here in the first place? I could see somewhat what you're saying when you say someone can put 50 cents - $1 price range, but no one has done that, so that's quite an over exaggeration, however I get that you're just trying to put it out their as an example. I'd maybe show some support on this if the price range had to remain within a certain limit as that seems more reasonable (like 5-10 cents as an example), but aside from that we're already pretty strict with false advertising, so to crack down on it more (even though it isn't false advertising, but more so a "backdoor" to it as mentioned above) wouldn't benefit anyone really.

 

I used to fluctuate my prices all the time depending on my supply and demand. It is only speculation that a trader won't ever pay their advertised range. You can't expect someone to pay high if they have high supply already.

 

So I can advertise I'm selling OSRS for .01$/m-1.00$/m and change the price depending on how I'm feeling?

Just for some easy clickbait?

 

Support. I hate being clickbaited

 

Support, it's deliberately circumventing the rule that was put into place to prevent false advertising.

 

Yea I support it man if your not actually going to use the prices then don't list them. No one likes be baited and then switched up on when they ask for the prices shown. Not to mention people who do it now should be ashamed of themselves.

 

No support, it's there for a reason. You going to buy 10m? Okay, $8. You going to buy 1000m? Okay, $600. The more gold a website sells = the more profits. I understand it may be very misleading, but it's not something you can heavily regulate.

To be honest you probably wouldn't get any clicks to begin with because of how stupid it looks.

But these sites do offer these prices, depending on how much you are buying or selling. In addition to that, some sites will charge 5-10c less depending on the payment method, too. So let's say a buyer is using western union + buying 4b, the price would be incredibly cheaper than Joebob who is buying 10m via paypal (which has many fees).

 

No support

Free market and IDK why we should disallow people to put price ranges if they want to.

This would be a perfect example of a rule that would unjustly hurt many to stop the few people who are click baiting titles.

If we want to play this game then its gonna be a sketchy one.

If people get click baited, let them get click baited? The individuals doing this will see more pain from the loss of business than another sythe rule on the list. Think about a youtube video with a obvious click bait. The post gets downvoted and you are sure as hell not going to subscribe. If you are subscribed, you may think about unsubscribing.

Let the free market do its work.

 

I don’t support this. Looking past price ranges as a business tactic, price ranges simplify practices for a merchant.

With the rule already enforcing honoring the price in a merchants thread, it will be difficult to constantly be changing prices due to fluctuation.

Also, I’d like to note that if this rule was implemented, a changed price from a merchants thread that favored the customer would never be brought to attention, but one that favored the merchant almost always would. This is unfair, trading is a mutual agreement from both parties and if one is unhappy we would just be wasting staff time over this petty rule.

However, I do understand where you are coming from. In attempt to streamline this concern I would suggest that price ranges are allowed but limited to a 20% margin, instead of crazy ranges like .5-.99 like you have chosen as an example in your original post.

 

$0.50-70/m ~ MMOGoldies.com | $600 Donator | Buying RS2007 Gold | 100M - 100B | Tiered Mule Network!

That's a pretty big range and can definitely be seen as manipulation with today's prices

 

Lmao. No one would ever sell it for one price. Everyone estimates for the best price.