Nick R. said:
I don't mind a listing like: "$XXXX or best offer" as long as it means that once someone offers $XXXX they get it.
Personally, I think the default "best offer" price listing (which just started with the new classifieds format) has been more confusing than anything else.
From my experience these past few weeks:
1. "XXX or best offer." I offered to buy the item at XXX. I got a reply that another poster (after me) had offered XXX + $10, and if I wanted to beat the offer.
2. I sold multiple items, taking care to set the price and remove "best offer" from my listing. Despite this, I received offers (from members I had never seen before) below my asking price for every single one, before the asking prices were finally met by other members.
3. I am not even going to mention the buyers offering to buy, then backing out, the nitpickers looking for every little dust speck, etc.
Like Frank said, the classifieds had a sense of community before, and members typically offered items at prices below what they would get elsewhere. Somehow, this is rarely the case anymore. I did do an old fashioned trade with ferider, and that felt like old times.
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Since then, I have gone back to ebay to sell a few items. You know what, it was LESS of a hassle for more money. And I don't even have to pay the $2 per listing on RFF yet.
In the future, if I do sell here, I think I will do as Kyle did in his listing for the MP, and reserve the right to sell to whomever I choose.
I think, with the volume in the classifieds, the number of members, and the more professional approach to the classifieds now, it would help if some rules or faq's were created to guide users and avoid misunderstandings like these.