Price $/M in Thread Titles

i've always felt it was bogus...


i see you, kjm, r2, grave... hell pretty much anyone past 10 pages of gold selling doing thing...



but also you have to think that at one time their prices may have been that low, and they never got their title changed, i just learned to avoid the top gold sellers, because they normally charge the most anyways.

 

Completely agreed on this one. Im tired of trying to buy gold and finding what seems like such a good price, only to be some ridiculous criteria in order to get such a price. The only problem is that you would have to not allow prices in titles at all in order to completely solve this issue. There will always be this problem, and there isnt really anything you can do about it. Thats just my personal opinion though.

 

You say on the following thread you buy partyhats for .49-.53/M
http://www.sythe.org/showthread.php?t=1414949

I posted and PM'd you and you havnt replied.
I offered to sell for the lowest amount your thread states it buys for, but nothing. If you are not purchasing for these prices then edit it.

Atleast just un dude would sell for the price he stated.

 

I don't find the Selling RSGP prices misleading title is the problem. I think it is actually the Buying RSGP that has the most concern. Many people say they are paying up to 0.50 and let's be honest, I have yet to see anyone actually pay that price anymore. The fact is, people are paying like 0.40-0.43 is actually more reasonable; recently there has been a ridiculous amount of influx in gold and the Chinese Gold farmers are getting our flipped gold to the point that no one pays above 0.46 anymore. Like I said, realistically, I think there should be an enforcement where people are willing to pay the MAX price for a payment method, so for an example, someone is willing to easily pay 0.43 through Paypal, but we would have to do 0.39-0.40 to compensate the WU fees. Therefore, I think all buying RSGP threads should have ONE price MAX that they are willing to pay in order to have 50+ people adding you and going, how about I sell for 0.50 when clearly no one in the market actually pays that.

For example in the thread

PP
Buying @ 0.45

WU
Buying @ 0.40 (Fees or Fees not included)

The above example will clear up a lot of confusion for the members.

 

Support, the constant searching .6/m threads for hours on end to purchase just 3m at a reasonable price is rediculous.

Would also like to add the fact that the account sales forums have a similar problem with payment methods in thread titles. Someone will post that they strictly only accept RSGP and then accept PP when offered it in the same exact thread. Makes business more complex than it should be.

 

Exactly, I'd prioritize this over the selling anytime.

Especially when the aim is to bump their thread to the top by getting people to post. Let's take Busta for example, I'm not sure if it's on intention or not, either way it's a good strategy. But he has on his thread a form of how much you want per M.

He has that he pays up to .55/M on his thread. And if you fill out using his form of how much you want per M, obviously most of the people would ask for .5-.55/M. That bumps his thread up and he, nor any gold seller, would ever pay that much with the price of GP atm. I recently bought over a bil off someone, he was decent enough to ask Busta for .45/M instead of trying to get the most out of it. Had some problems after I bought half of it, bought the first half the first day. Then he gets in contact with Busta, he got offered 0.4/M, he was really disappointed.

The problem here is the margins are too big. And it often disappoints people trying to sell their gold to someone secure. Before I got back into the Gold business, I never really had any problems with people saying "0.50/M!" in their thread. I knew it was an offer for if I bought in bulk, and I'd only end up paying a few extra cents higher, usually.

The same can't be said with buying GP. Even offering up to 0.50, when you offer under 0.45 is too high, since gold buyers won't pay 0.5/M even if a big amount was sold. I'm fine if the range of buying price was between 1-2 cents your usual paying price, you'd obviously pay more if you're low on stock. But over 5 cents, that's too much.

 

I personally say no price in titles and no adjective such as trusted.

So it'd be "Arcus Gold shop" go ahead and put donor or what not but that way we mods don't have 10-20 people a day pming us to change the thread title.

Maybe a request a title change similar to report a spammer and shit would be easier. I HATE and I stress that cus I hate when people add me for a title change or just keep buggin me for it.

 

Maybe add the option for when we change our titles of our threads they actually change the thread title so mods won't have to do it every single time. And perhaps if you put your price it should say From 0.XX to 0.XX, displaying the entire price range for a better idea. If they mislead and false advertise, which happens a lot perhaps a warning?

It's worse in the buying section, they all bullshit on their prices, every single one. Most of you in this thread do it. And the price fluctuations regarding the market is almost always entirely controlled by gold resellers, the prices have barely changed at all in the past two months, besides resellers trying to get it .1 cheaper yet still selling .65-.80 as if nothing changed.. There is not a huge influx besides from FDK names and it's minuscule at best, prices should have actually increased since most simba botfarms have been down for two weeks, and if bot nuke happens next month which they've been saying for ages then that'd benefit all gold resellers immensely if they keep stock.

 

First off allowing members to change the thread title would be nice but I am pretty sure we won't allow it and maybe that's why no prices would be better. No reason to ever have a title change then.

Second off I don't sell gold so I'm not into the .1 cheaper.

 

I rarely bother to reply to PM's (simply because I get so many), I have my contact info there which I'm sure you have or could have added to ask me (which would have led to me becoming aware and changing the price).
That's clearly an example of prices changing and since it is an inactive thread I haven't noticed that price had not been edited. Putting 5000M+ at .5 via mail is misleading no question about it, and like I said I was not intending to flame just un dude I know he's doing it because everyone else does it.

I don't even have a price in my thread title anymore, and when I did have it I did take every order that came my way (had 3-4 mail customers recently even since not having the price in thread). It's really not in question if just un dude would really sell 5000M+ via mail because I assume he would, but that's an order that would probably never occur. To imply the price per mil he's selling at is ".5/M" is ridiculous if 5B+ mail is the only order that qualifies.

And yeah as Djweasel says, it does cause mods to have to constantly change titles which I'm sure can become annoying.

 

Only problem with this is it would drive new sellers away from the market.

Buyers won't buy from someone with 2 pages, they would go to someone with 100 pages if it was ever implemented. Although big and longtime sellers should have an edge over newer ones, it would just go too far if they cannot advertise their price on the title. That is really the only way a new seller can get a decent start, by showing people their competitive prices.

 

If it gets to the point where it's over purchasing 2b, feel free to contact me and I'll request the user changes it. As of right now though, 2b seems like a good base for a legitimate bulk purchase but anything above that seems rather unreasonable.