I want to discuss about selling pokemon

[Coffeeee]

Hello everyone,

 

Recently I have seen many trade auction where epics pokemons are getting sold at very less price and that's fair but there could be number of reason such as Low players being active/online , players saving money for upcoming events, or other 2 buyers are coordinating who are friends.

 

Is there a way to sell pokemon on the forum without start bid? Or But can be posted for 48hr or 72hr. Intrested buyers can offer directly xyz amount and seller can decline or accept the offer? That can help even the sellers to get decent price on that.

Edited February 10 by Coffeeee

[Coffeeee]

I want to ask trade mod if this is legal way to sell pokemon on forum?

[Coffeeee]

Hello ,

 

Any update?

[Coffeeee]

Hello, still waiting for mod to update!

[Darkduhtank]

I think in general you will find somethings stay true:

1) the older a game becomes, the more epic pokemon enter the game -> the value will go down because more options. 
         Example -> Charmander ... Years ago I saw auctions for 5m+ for regular epics. Now I just see a godly go for 1-2m. 

2) Your popularity online will affect your auction. For example if some popular people auction an epic it will sell for 10m / 20m / 30m + but its not perfect. But if me or you auction a godly it will sell for 1-3m because not enough people will see the post.

3) Coordinating on forums is very hard and risky, I don't think you will find people doing that effectively, it's easy for someone like me to ruin a coordinated event, and getting caught will risk losing your account which isn't worth the small increase. I find it's probably not as common on real auctions, plus you will usually see 5-10 players on a real auction showing there is real interest. I doubt anyone is controlling an auction with 5-10 people. If they're trying to inflate prices I'm sure trade mods can trace the money and actively are. 

 

Solution: 

I think the REAL problem is the current market everyone offers to sell a pokemon and just says "offer?" this is so bad because it's a waste of time. Just list a price, serious buyers will ask for any price adjustments. Asking for Offer's is just a polite way of trying to scam someone to pay more. The only time "offers" is okay is for really pricey pokemon 5m+ because it's difficult to get an accurate price, but for epic mons I believe that has ruined the trade community and leads to wasting time. 

 

As for as listing for bids, I have seen plenty of people who just post a pokemon for sale and ask them to message them with an offer, I don't see why that's against the rules but If I am wrong I will gladly edit this post

[Coffeeee]

12 hours ago, Darkduhtank said:

I think in general you will find somethings stay true:

1) the older a game becomes, the more epic pokemon enter the game -> the value will go down because more options. 
         Example -> Charmander ... Years ago I saw auctions for 5m+ for regular epics. Now I just see a godly go for 1-2m. 

2) Your popularity online will affect your auction. For example if some popular people auction an epic it will sell for 10m / 20m / 30m + but its not perfect. But if me or you auction a godly it will sell for 1-3m because not enough people will see the post.

3) Coordinating on forums is very hard and risky, I don't think you will find people doing that effectively, it's easy for someone like me to ruin a coordinated event, and getting caught will risk losing your account which isn't worth the small increase. I find it's probably not as common on real auctions, plus you will usually see 5-10 players on a real auction showing there is real interest. I doubt anyone is controlling an auction with 5-10 people. If they're trying to inflate prices I'm sure trade mods can trace the money and actively are. 

 

Solution: 

I think the REAL problem is the current market everyone offers to sell a pokemon and just says "offer?" this is so bad because it's a waste of time. Just list a price, serious buyers will ask for any price adjustments. Asking for Offer's is just a polite way of trying to scam someone to pay more. The only time "offers" is okay is for really pricey pokemon 5m+ because it's difficult to get an accurate price, but for epic mons I believe that has ruined the trade community and leads to wasting time. 

 

As for as listing for bids, I have seen plenty of people who just post a pokemon for sale and ask them to message them with an offer, I don't see why that's against the rules but If I am wrong I will gladly edit this post

Point 2: as you stated this forum post are available for everyone to see, i definitely agree it's also depends on your popularity to get high price, but as being a public post, I have no followers still my post / auction get 100+ views but 1-2 buyers same views are for the popular players , 2nd thing I agree it's hard to coordinate on forum but almost 99% of players have access to discord as main chat sources which PRO mods cannot manage or investigate until reports are made, so main question who will make a report? 

 

Well my simple point for this post was , just to avoid all this also sellers have many support mechanics n rules made by PRO , can be one fair rule in support of sellers to sell pokemon without doing minimum raise n start bid? Obviously a really buyers will buy n bid on it..

[Coffeeee]

12 hours ago, Darkduhtank said:

I think in general you will find somethings stay true:

1) the older a game becomes, the more epic pokemon enter the game -> the value will go down because more options. 
         Example -> Charmander ... Years ago I saw auctions for 5m+ for regular epics. Now I just see a godly go for 1-2m. 

2) Your popularity online will affect your auction. For example if some popular people auction an epic it will sell for 10m / 20m / 30m + but its not perfect. But if me or you auction a godly it will sell for 1-3m because not enough people will see the post.

3) Coordinating on forums is very hard and risky, I don't think you will find people doing that effectively, it's easy for someone like me to ruin a coordinated event, and getting caught will risk losing your account which isn't worth the small increase. I find it's probably not as common on real auctions, plus you will usually see 5-10 players on a real auction showing there is real interest. I doubt anyone is controlling an auction with 5-10 people. If they're trying to inflate prices I'm sure trade mods can trace the money and actively are. 

 

Solution: 

I think the REAL problem is the current market everyone offers to sell a pokemon and just says "offer?" this is so bad because it's a waste of time. Just list a price, serious buyers will ask for any price adjustments. Asking for Offer's is just a polite way of trying to scam someone to pay more. The only time "offers" is okay is for really pricey pokemon 5m+ because it's difficult to get an accurate price, but for epic mons I believe that has ruined the trade community and leads to wasting time. 

 

As for as listing for bids, I have seen plenty of people who just post a pokemon for sale and ask them to message them with an offer, I don't see why that's against the rules but If I am wrong I will gladly edit this post

 

Edited February 15 by Coffeeee

[Hudsonmaddox]

Great idea! A fixed-price option would help sellers get fair deals.