  
| Author: | mgiglio  | | Posted: | Mar 21, 2017 13:31 | | Subject: | Re: price overview when buying a wanted list | | Viewed: | 65 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, tillmanbalazs writes:
| | few weeks ago when I went to a wanted list, and selected the items which I wanted
to buy, then the shop, it showed what is the price of items in this shop compared
to the average price of the items.
Now this function is not available, can I ask why?
Is it possible to have it back?
Thanks,
Balázs
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Voted Yes. Having this comparison helps me to buy hundreds of pieces at a time
and easily know whether the store I've chosen is charging me double what
each piece is worth, without having to check each piece manually. The only ones
to blame for a downward spiral in pricing are sellers listing their parts cheaper
than everyone else. If a part can be sold cheaper, maybe it should be. Taking
information away buyers to stabilize pricing is a poor solution.
Providing sellers with this information easily when they list parts, but not
making it easily available to buyers when buying, puts sellers at an unnecessary
advantage in this marketplace. It erodes my confidence when purchasing, or requires
me to spend an inordinate amount of time researching to save what amounts to
pennies per piece. While some would say that I should just suck it up and pay
the pennies if I don't want to do the legwork, I'd say that'd make
sense if the sellers had to do the legwork of looking up each individual part
price and entering it manually, but they don't.
I think a nice compromise would be to show the over/under comparison against
current listing prices, instead of 6 month average.
I approach this from a hobbyist perspective. While I have a store, it exists
to move items that I get in bulk lots that I do not want, which helps me offset
the cost of that bulk lot and keep the items that I do want. I'm not here
to make my mortgage, it's for fun.
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