Selling above retail value

[Abysmal Vapor]

I think i have seen lately some people selling above retail value and i wonder if we are still honoring the rule below.

• This section is provided as a service for members to exchange unused or unwanted items. It is not a place to sell items above retail value for a profit or to unload a large surplus.

 

[acstorfer]

If you're referring to my p80s for sale, there's around $90 in glassware, I'm eating paypal and usps express shipping. Take that into consideration the units are below the $400 mark. Seriously, if you can find a P-80 under $400 for the unit with no other fees for for it. I'm sorry, my pricing is right in line with market rate.

 

[Abysmal Vapor]

If you're referring to my p80s for sale, there's around $90 in glassware, I'm eating paypal and usps express shipping. Take that into consideration the units are below the $400 mark. Seriously, if you can find a P-80 under $400 for the unit with no other fees for for it. I'm sorry, my pricing is right in line with market rate.

Good luck with your sale.

 

[acstorfer]

Good luck with your sale.

Thank you

 

[oddjobold]

We should all stick to the rules of the forum.

However I personally have no issue with people selling above retail value. Supply and demand, you don't have to buy.

 

[Abysmal Vapor]

I was only asking cause i want to sell my old MFLB for no less than 420$ .

 

[acstorfer]

I was only asking cause i want to sell my old MFLB for no less than 420$ .

Too bad. I just sold 2 never used mflb's with serial numbers for 60 each. You could have done well.

 

[FlyingLow]

I would have paid more than $500 for my P80... let market dictate prices, we need no price policing around here.

 

[badbee]

My favorite was the guy recently asking $300 for a barebones G43 sled (on Reddit). It's a fun novelty vape but hardly a collectors item.

 

[acstorfer]

All good. P80s sold

 

[LesPlenty]

Fuck scalpers and people who feed them (looking at you @FlyingLow, no need to give sellers bad ideas about price gouging), nothing wrong with your numbers @acstorfer, not that it is any of my business.

 

[Vasgas]

Fuck scalpers and people who feed them (looking at you @FlyingLow, no need to give sellers bad ideas about price gouging), nothing wrong with your numbers @acstorfer, not that it is any of my business.

Yeah…scalpers ain't cool!

 

[Seantagon]

My favorite was the guy recently asking $300 for a barebones G43 sled (on Reddit). It's a fun novelty vape but hardly a collectors item.

Same on this site and someone bought it. Under the rare teds section. No power source included. Collectors will collect

 

[Abysmal Vapor]

Too bad. I just sold 2 never used mflb's with serial numbers for 60 each. You could have done well.

Yeah but yours doesnt have a DNA from using it natively by a legend ..

My favorite was the guy recently asking $300 for a barebones G43 sled (on Reddit). It's a fun novelty vape but hardly a collectors item.

There is still a $300 dollar offer for a G43 if anyone is interested.
We are not discussing the morality of price gouging,but just a certain rule from the Classified section.

 

[FlyingLow]

Les, you are family and I can feel the pain in your post... Clearly you have been on the wrong side of a transaction or been taken advantage of. No need to make that kind of assumption about me, I am not that kind of person.

I do not take advantage of those less fortunate, but if someone sees the value in an item and wants to pay for it, what gives you or anyone else the right to shame that seller for getting the most value out of a sale?

No one can argue the rarity of P80s, it is not a product available to everyone... I fucking LOVE my p80 though and it is my daily. If lost tomorrow, I'd drop a fortune in a blink just to reacquire one, it is that important to my medication schedule and nothing out there can replace its power and portability.

It all comes down to personal value and if you are not a buyer, there is really no need to impose your position on another person's sale. let it be and move on.

 

[LesPlenty]

I was no way having a go at you @FlyingLow for being a scalper, I just did not want you giving ideas to sellers to sell their items for even higher prices due to their popularity...Ispire Wand was US75$ before it became popular, many others do the same...just keep marking up the price until sales drop again...rinse and repeat...or worse...RTX30 series

 

[BrianTL]

My favorite was the guy recently asking $300 for a barebones G43 sled (on Reddit). It's a fun novelty vape but hardly a collectors item.

This G43 Sled?

For Sale - G43 Sled Like New W/ loads of parts $300 PPG&S Net 2 Me

Hi I am selling after almost 2 years in storage my very lightly used G43 SledGhammer. I am the original owner and it was purchased from Bud The Vape Critic. It comes with everything shown so the G43, 2 lightly used 18650 Protected cells (do not remove the plastic from the cells) , 18mm female...

fuckcombustion.com

 

[arb]

If you guys are gonna fix prices why not just make them all a nickel?

 

[jasp3r]

When these products aren't readily available such as the TetraP80 or perhaps something rarer... I see no problem having market decide price. There was some guy on reddit who started his G43 at like something stupid $600 and he has been consistently relisting it for atleast a year dropping the price to mid 300s prob where the other price got his idea from.

My point is if you ask a high price and nobody bids, you lower the price until someone does. Price gouging to me is you buy everything single P80 in the drop and charge 700 per unit.

 

[Abysmal Vapor]

If you guys are gonna fix prices why not just make them all a nickel?

Maybe we should take a swing at Butane/Gas prices ,cause they are killing us here in the EU ,lol..

 

[acstorfer]

Maybe we should take a swing at Butane/Gas prices ,cause they are killing us here in the EU ,lol..

Weren't there insane amounts of protestors in yellow vests take a swing at that?

 

[Abysmal Vapor]

Classifieds rules update !
Addition:

• Items that are no longer in production may be listed for more than their original retail cost.

Products that are discontinued or out of production often realize a valuation higher than their original retail price and may be listed as such.

 

[iDRINKBLEACH]

What about custom vapes? Woods, Inlays or special cuts would you need proof of purchase to show what you paid or would it be honor system? Got no sides in this just curious?

 

[FearAndLawyering]

What about custom vapes? Woods, Inlays or special cuts would you need proof of purchase to show what you paid or would it be honor system? Got no sides in this just curious?

this in a nutshell is the same set of problems EE ran into. it gets really nuanced and annoying to try to define. the best simplest answer is to decide that 'retail' means brick and mortar or otherwise widely available and that niche devices were never really sold at retail and not subject to same rules and issues.

the rule itself is just aimed to stop retailers from trying to use this as a distribution channel while avoiding traditional costs like fees or taxes or MSRP agreements.

 

[iDRINKBLEACH]

this in a nutshell is the same set of problems EE ran into. it gets really nuanced and annoying to try to define. the best simplest answer is to decide that 'retail' means brick and mortar or otherwise widely available and that niche devices were never really sold at retail and not subject to same rules and issues.

the rule itself is just aimed to stop retailers from trying to use this as a distribution channel while avoiding traditional costs like fees or taxes or MSRP agreements.

That’s why im wondering a lot of p80s are custom with inlays and different woods or acrylics, or it’s got a body style that isn’t as common now or they are one of a kind. Of course that will have a higher price a long with the one of a kind or unique attribute.