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Originally Posted by Wayne Dow
could I start here with a price that well exceeded blue book, and then drop it every week or two by increments until someone made an offer, and still be within the rules? This effectively becomes an auction, but perhaps not so by the rules.
I'm wondering if, in fairness to sellers, there shouldn't be an option on this site for exceptional pieces to be sold at auction? Thanks for in advance for your thoughts on these topics.
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Wayne,
Selling on this site is a privilege, not a right of membership.
Members do list guns at a high price and drop their price after a period of time. Pricing is an art.
If however one were to try to skirt the rules by listing way above market value and
systematically lowering the price every week that for sale add would receive considerable attention from the moderators. Most people lower their prices randomly and that's okay.
Your suggestion about adding an option for "
exceptional pieces to be sold at auction" should have been asked of the webmaster, John Dunkle. John runs this site within the guidance set by the PGCA Board of Directors. There is also a "Website & Forum - Help & Assistance" forum at the top of the page where suggestions are considered and discussed. Since however you asked in public I will answer in kind.
NO auctions!
If one wonders why we have such strict rules the answers are simple.
1. To keep this website focused on the PGCA's objective, which is furthering the knowledge of Parker shotguns.
2. John, Jeff, and I are volunteers with full time jobs and other things in our lives beside managing a web forum. Things like auctions require even stricter management which none of us desire to provide.
3. This is a friendly and helpful site in which all good mannered persons are welcome. The more I am required to moderate the less manners I have!
Mark