MM changes to profiteering rules and new Collectibles sub-forum

Feek said:
That's scalping.
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Fair enough, if you cover immediate resells as scalping, then it's a fairly niche problem left that OcUK might have a relevant but out of stock price that someone may want to try and sell higher than :p
 
jaybee said:
I'm not saying this should be done, but what do you think would happen if you just allowed people to set any price? Do you not think this will largely also police itself?
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To a degree, but there always exist supply:demand forces that will open up avenues for scalpers/traders to take advantage of the section. If you don't care about that, then yeah absolutely no reason why you can't just do that and drop a load of administrative faff, but I think we do care about that.
 
Zefan said:
Ah I see the mod team have finally got round to deciding to sell their collectibles :D
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I've already said I'm not selling my Lorelai Gilmore Funko-pop ;)

Zefan said:
The profiteering change seems inevitable to enable the collectibles section to work, makes sense and I'm sure even if there are unknown unknowns down the road that crop up (they always do) they can be dealt with as and when :)
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You're absolutely right, we couldn't have done the latter without the former. I'm sure there will be some teething issues and we'll just deal with them.
 
I am happy to sell some lego as the average market going rate!

I know people should be sensible but I think some guidance should be taken when taking an average. Is it average of past 5 sales or average in the past 6 months? Or whichever is longer? Since sometimes, lets say you held onto something for years and all of the sudden it is now popular and you want to flog it. The average of past 12 months might differ from last 3 months.
 
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Raymond Lin said:
I am happy to sell some lego as the average market going rate!

I know people should be sensible but I think some guidance should be taken when taking an average. Is it average of past 5 sales or average in the past 6 months? Or whichever is longer? Since sometimes, lets say you held onto something for years and all of the sudden it is now popular and you want to flog it. The average of past 12 months might differ from last 3 months.
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In my head (when we were discussing the rules change internally), I took the average just to be current price e.g. on eBay excluding outliers (e.g. not the too cheap probably will get scammed sale, and not the most expensive has been listed for months and not sold sale).
 
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