For Sale Various FJ60 smog parts

[dnp]

I have smog parts left over from a desmog effort. The air pump is gone, but I have most of the other parts. Let me know if you need any.

 

[Beachcomber Bernie]

Could you post up a pic and price for the lot please?

 

[dnp]

Sure. Let me get to my shop and I'll get them up

 

[dnp]

@Beachcomber Bernie Here are the smog parts I have left. (I have the EGR cooler on eBay right now, but I can take it off before it sells). Take a look at what's here and PM me with an offer.

 

[John Smith]

Unless the forum rules have changed, you must post an asking price when selling here. If you want people to bid, use eBay.

 

[dnp]

Unless the forum rules have changed, you must post an asking price when selling here. If you want people to bid, use eBay.

Actually, the guidelines in the pop up state that prices are suggested, not required. Also, I see asking someone to make an offer as a negotiation, not an auction. Saying I will take the highest offer would be an auction.

I'm not intending to be argumentative, I'm just stating the rules and how I view an auction. If the forum views it differently, please let me know. When I don't know the "market" price for an item, I'd rather have someone offer me a price than me post a price that may be wildly off.

 

[65swb45]

What qualifies as "the forum", only moderators, or users too? It is unfortunate that @woody left the pop up that way. Most of us, myself included, have an EXPECTATION that a price will be posted. MUD is a research database. When a price is not posted, and a transaction is consumated by PM, the community learns NOTHING about the current value of parts. This is a lost opportunity.

I have many parts for sale that have languished for extended periods of time. While this doesn't help me out at all, it helps everyone else out with the same parts for sale by letting them know they should probably price lower. So a service is still done.

If all you want to do is make a sale, you can do whatever you can get away with. If you want to contribute to the community, you will post a price AND what the item eventually sells for.

Best

Mark

www.marksoffroad.net

 

[dnp]

What qualifies as "the forum", only moderators, or users too? It is unfortunate that @woody left the pop up that way. Most of us, myself included, have an EXPECTATION that a price will be posted. MUD is a research database. When a price is not posted, and a transaction is consumated by PM, the community learns NOTHING about the current value of parts. This is a lost opportunity.

I have many parts for sale that have languished for extended periods of time. While this doesn't help me out at all, it helps everyone else out with the same parts for sale by letting them know they should probably price lower. So a service is still done.

If all you want to do is make a sale, you can do whatever you can get away with. If you want to contribute to the community, you will post a price AND what the item eventually sells for.

Best

Mark

www.marksoffroad.net

Mark, I appreciate your input and you make some valid points. That being said, let be make a case in point on an ongoing attempt to sell parts: I recently advertised my FJ60 I'm parting out. I posted a list of the larger items I have for sale on that vehicle, and I posted prices on all of them when I created the thread. One of those larger parts is a very nice-running 2F. After a day or so, I had, surprisingly, not received the first inquiry on the 2f. Thinking I might have it priced too high - even though I looked at past threads for pricing - I put it alone in the Parts For Sale thread. After a very short time, I received two PMs, one of which I'm continuing to discuss with an interested party.

All that being said, did the current person's interest stem from the fact he didn't see it in my original post for the whole truck? Did he view it as being priced too high in that thread and decided not to pursue it? Did he see it in the second forum and wonder if there was a "deal to be had" due to no price? Etc.? I don't know the answer to those questions, but sometimes it takes different marketing strategies to produce a sale, and don't be confused that my (and others') primary objective is to sell our items. Furthermore, these are not just "any" sales, as the vast majority of the items on the forums are Land Cruiser parts. You're absolutely correct in that this IS a community, an AWESOME community, and that's why those of us enthusiasts, for the most part, choose to sell / buy the majority of our Toyota-related parts on 'MUD.

According to your avatar you've been on 'MUD about a month longer than me, although you've been considerably more active than I have. That being said, I can't recall a single instance where I've seen anyone report what they've sold an item for. That doesn't mean it hasn't happened, it just means that it is, apparently, exceedingly rare. Would that be an awesome source of information for the forums? Absolutely! Is it human nature? That's not been my experience.

I hope I haven't given you or anyone else the impression that I'm trying to "get away with" anything to make a sale. If the rules (ostensibly promulgated by those "in the know" who are trying to keep the forums running "properly") don't prohibit a method, then one must assume it's allowed. Therefore, if my intent is to sell an item, and if I employ an allowable method to do so, it seems as though my sales methods would be viewed as OK.

Like I responded to John Smith above, I am in NO way intending to be argumentative or confrontational. That's what makes 'MUD SOOOOOO great is that we're NOT a Jeep forum! I'm just stating one person's view of the situation on which I've been called. If the method I've used (and MANY, MANY others) to sell an item is not acceptable, my suggestion is that the language in the pop up be changed to state a price MUST be stated........because I absolutely read the pop up language before making my posts. I will 100% abide by the rules that control 'MUD.

 

[dnp]

All smog parts sold. Thanks 'MUD!

 

[FishTown]

@dnp

I know you said it's all gone, but I figured I'd try... have any functioning VCVs?

 

[65swb45]

@dnp

I know you said it's all gone, but I figured I'd try... have any functioning VCVs?

What's that look like? One of these?

Or one of these: