**FOR SALE SECTION*** must include prices

[Leakie Tbar]

Parts for sale Section must have Prices for parts ,Or the thread will be deleted

[jont]

But threads like "What's my car worth" are moved to For Sale to keep the general sections tidy. Can't have it both ways....

What's wrong with not having a price? If you're interested, you'll ask...

[Leakie Tbar]

If you post something for sale just put a Price dont think thats too hard

It has more positives than Negatives no useless pm's back and forwards no unwanted posts

eg I have been offerd twice that much.
Price ?? (on the second post)
how much you after
I'll give you !!!!

It would lower the amount of posts in the thread making the Thread more informative

List a Negative I dare you

[Spittinflames]

I'm with leakie on this one. People say make me an offer and when you do they say its not enough.... so they must of known what they wanted for it in the first place......

[Charged]

Negative - putting prices up drives away customers.

If there is a price then I'd usually leave it (unless its a bargain obviosuly!)

[THE DUKE]

You could make members bid and call it IMOC-BAY

[Leakie Tbar]

Ebay more like Gay-Bay not meant to be offensive in any way..


Your only a customer if the Price is right ,, Am I right or am I right

Come on down The price is right

[Ian Geary]

By having a stated price when buying either:

I think I'm getting a bargain if it's lower than what I would offer and I'll buy;

or I just won't buy it.

Every offer I've made via PM has always been accepted - maybe I overpaid each time?

Having a stated price would make me less inclined to haggle - ie pm'ing an offer. I would just click out the item, losing a possible sale.

But, we often see prices creep down as time goes by without a sale...does this also clutter up the for sale section? So it can sometimes take time for the asking price to become realistic.

Things can end up like a dutch auction, which delays things.

Submitting a bid the buyer is happy with would move things quicker.

But I agree with the Duke, we don't want to end up with IMOC-bay do we? Generally a seller will sell to the first acceptable offer. Not hold out for further offers, or pit one bidder against another?. Such behaviour would be un-IMOC like I think, and create friction at some point.

The behaviour of sellers should perhaps be a seperate suggestion?


So, my negative of always stating a price is that it makes things less flexible, could dissuade potential buyers and therefore delay a sale.

And is thread length a problem? There's often queries about a product anyway, and seeing a trail of offers gives an idea how popular such items are.

Skipping down half a dozen posts doesn't bother me either - I made it to the bottom of this post OK.

my 2p

Ian

[Max Power]

Rise from the dead


THIS IS MY PONT

http://www.imoc.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=67161

Stop sellars p1$$ing about

[Leakie Tbar]

http://www.imoc.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=68404


AND ANOTHER +1 SHOULD BE REMOVED MAYBE FOR SALE MAYBE NOT CHRIST ITS A PARTS FOR SALE SECTION , NOT A PARTS POSSIBLY FOR SALE MODERATE IT OH ITS BY A MODERATOR

I HAVE TO STOP NOW BEFORE I HAVE A FIT

[Slarty]

Rise from the dead


THIS IS MY PONT

http://www.imoc.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=67161

Stop sellars p1$$ing about

Agree 100% with the pricing situation. I was the person who put the original "bid" in. Once he started getting greedy and trying to up the price I walked away.

What's to stop someone saying "oh I've had a higher bid than yours via pm" simply to up the cost?

If you're selling something, have a look around at similar items that have sold recently and go from there. It's not bloody rocket science is it.

[SW20Paul]

I agree put a price on it. If your selling something you must know how much you want for it

[2Crooky]

I feel all ads for cars should contain photos as well.......!!!!

Nobody in their right mind is going to buy a car off the internet with just a brief description and no photos!!! I just think it comes across as a bit lazy

If you really wanna sell a car you should be maximizing your opertunity for viewers.......Any car i have bought in the past i have always looked straight at the ads with pics and ignored the ads without.......

Would it be possible to post an announcement in capitals at the top of MR2s for sale, stating pictures must be given with description of car..

Alex

[Tiamat]

Not everyone has the ability to put up photos. To be honest if someone is too lazy to run around and get photos to put on their for sale advert then that is their loss, I appreciate the frustration but I don't want to have t trawl every for sale advert checking for photos. If you can't see it don't buy it. These are all good suggestions but they all create enforcement problems for the Committee, who are we to say that someone cannot sell their car through the Forum because they don't own a digital camera. People advertise cars through free-ads without photos, you check from the description whether you want to look at it or not. Its frustrating, but no-one should be forced to do anything in connection with selling their vehicle.

[monkeymax]

I agree with Malcolm. I've advised many people on how to put photos up and have even done it for many people in the for sale section (mostly Mk1s). I don't really know why I spend the time doing it and am less inclined to do so now as I've got so much on already.

But we cannot force people not to advertise just because they haven't posted photos. One of the advantages of advertising over the internet is that you have a much larger audience with a much larger outreach (in terms of distance from you) than the local ads. This is also a pitfall as it means that you're less likely to travel further if there are no photos... so I can see where you're coming from.

Ultimately, if you're not happy with the Ad, and you can't get the info you want via PM/phone, don't go to see it. At the moment, that'd be more the sellers loss than yours... there are plenty of MR2s for sale at the moment.
But I think you'll find that most sellers do their best to get photos and usually have them on their computer. All it normally takes is a quick PM with your email address and they'll email them to you. This is worse off for the seller than if they posted them online as they use more of their own bandwidth constantly uploading the same photos, thus taking more time... but for some it's easier than posting them online.

What's more, I've seen photos of cars which have looked stunning - and photos recent to the sale too. Get there only to find rust holes here and there and tired paint work...

I know they say the camera can't lie. I can tell you now as someone who loves photography that that's a lie... it's very very easy to make something look much better than it is. So ultimately, unless if they're pointing out specific faults, you won't really gain much from photos of a car... especially if you already know what an MR2 looks like...


Sorry, that turned into a bit of a rant which I didn't intend. I do appreciate the suggestion as a valid one and I often feel exactly the same as you - look at an advert and ask myself why the seller hasn't put any photos up... it is very annoying... but it's not something that we can really enforce unfortunately...

[Slarty]

Getting back on topic

What about the price on parts for sale?

[sexi_mr2]

ok could someone tell me for instance the price of every part from an mr2??

i was breaking my 2 (kinda still am) but i cant post a price with every item as i dont know the price of it. so if someone makes me an offer and the price sounds ok i'll take it.

Not everyone know the price for every single part.

[Leakie Tbar]

No But Your Dad and your Brother Does,

[Spittinflames]

No But Your Dad and your Brother Does,

I'm just as bad for putting offers. Sometimes it's not what its worth to you put what its worth to someone else.

[Babboon]

http://www.imoc.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=68404
AND ANOTHER +1 SHOULD BE REMOVED MAYBE FOR SALE MAYBE NOT CHRIST ITS A PARTS FOR SALE SECTION , NOT A PARTS POSSIBLY FOR SALE MODERATE IT OH ITS BY A MODERATOR

I HAVE TO STOP NOW BEFORE I HAVE A FIT

Calm down dear, its just a commercial

I can see this being a difficult one. I broke my old 2 and I didn't have a clue what prices to charge for bits, I just took offers which sounded reasonable.
Obviously we do get people taking advantage from the examples posted but I think its these things that should be looked at rather than getting the forum gestapo on the case closing or locking threads that don't quote a price.
By all means we should encourage people to quote prices and put up pics but too much moderation is a bad thing.