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Originally Posted by Coda
Giving an offer higher than the asking price is, as Lucid has brought up repeatedly, NOT something you should be doing when someone is SELLING something. If the seller wants the price to be open-ended to sell to the highest bidder, then it needs to be an auction and there needs to be a definitive end date for the auction.
If the buyer is choosing to spend a higher price rather than shopping around for the lowest price, that's really screwing with market pressures.
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Oh! Okay THAT makes complete sense.
I'm sorry that was my bad. I so rarely visit the marketplace that when I think of selling threads, I almost ALWAYS think of the threads where people are like 'make an offer' and then someone's like '3k' and they're like 'nope too low'
But those aren't selling threads, are they?
I've seen threads like that, that call themselves selling threads, and then someone will quote a price that's in direct line with what you see in a price guide, but the seller will still be like 'nah' and then someone will quote a price that's like over the highest in the guide and only then will they sell.
But that's still like, not a selling thread, tho, is it? That's still kind of like an auction thread. Cos if you don't take the market/price guide price, you are auctioning to the highest bidder no matter what you call it, even if they offer only like 1k over what's standard, that's still a bid, not a buy.
I honestly just now realized that, my brain just clicked into place.
edit: are the differences between set price selling threads and open price auction threads set out in black and white in the Exchange rules? Because if this was the first site that said 'okay if you don't have set prices for the items you're selling, you're auctioning, and you have to have a start and end date' I think that would be really awesome. I mean those kind of threads are why I don't Exchange at all, you never know what someone wants or what they're going to take.