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That's fine but if you would prefer that people who make a living from buying and selling didn't use the forum I think it should be stated somewhere?
heychicken-
Once you buy a bike, you're fully entitled to sell it on and I wouldn't discourage you from doing so.
We have several types of trader engaging with the community:
- I've lots of spares, frames and whole bikes that I acquire from myriad sources around the country and I acquire them cheap and sell them for what the market pays. (Money is made by arbitraging the difference between acquisition cost and selling cost, the work is in recognising what people want to buy.)
- I buy things at market prices, and I invest time and money into restoring or re-working the bikes until they leave my hands in much better condition than when I acquired them. (Money is made by doing the work others are too lazy to do but would pay for - i.e. taking an average bike and making it awesome.)
- I buy things cheap and attempt to sell them high. (Money is made by selling to those too ignorant to know the real value.)
- I import pieces of crap from Taiwan and try to off load them as something they're not.
We ban #4.
As to the others, which are you?
We love #1, are kinda fine with #2 (though we discourage a lack of transparency in what things cost and how to source and do things up - it's info that should be shared), and #3 we merrily troll as it's hardly in the spirit of a community.
If you're #2, you are welcome but don't try and hide information from customers.
If you're #3, you're going to be trolled constantly and you should fear for the reputation of your business. Be very careful.
Either way... #2 shouldn't care if prices are left up, and #3 is a messy path and you shouldn't have a say.
The community takes care of itself, I won't discourage a trader, but you've got fair warning that asking people to remove prices doesn't sound good to most people on here.
- I've lots of spares, frames and whole bikes that I acquire from myriad sources around the country and I acquire them cheap and sell them for what the market pays. (Money is made by arbitraging the difference between acquisition cost and selling cost, the work is in recognising what people want to buy.)
Velocio
I'm not going to help you.
salmonchild has it summed up perfectly, and I am far more on the side of the buyers knowing not just where the bike came from but the price too. It is up to the buyer to then decide whether the price that you are selling at offers a fair premium (for whatever value you add) over them scouring classifieds too.
Just as a word of warning, I'm still planning to find time to add the classifieds type to the system. When this happens, I don't see any reason why the price something sold at wouldn't be shown and sellers won't be able to hide or edit that information after the event.