Reducing BIN without bumping?

As the title suggests, how do you go about reducing the BIN for a website for sale without coming across as bumping? If I want to make the sale more appealing to get the site sold, I will reduce the BIN. I don't necessarily want to have an auction system as this just complicates things.

Thoughts?

 

I wasn't complaining about infractions so let's not go that route. I didn't really think to edit posts to be honest. I just thought it wasn't considered bumping if you were adding additional info to the thread. I would have thought reducing BIN would be considered significant information to grant a "bump", since your altering the most important aspect of the sale, the price.

 

Wont it make DP more eBay and less the conventional DP?

 

Well you can reduce by your edit time period or send a report to Mod if you reduced it first time. They will edit it.

 

So, we should bother a mod for editing threads and posts for us?

cool!

 

I didn't know reducing the BIN was considered a bump? Is it not relevant information regarding the sale... that's why im still all for the "auction" style listings such as on SP or ebay All relevant info would be in the first post instead of 5 pages back.

 

i would also like to hear from some mod on how to reduce the BIN effectively without being counted as a bump?

 

i saw some joker reduce 1 dollar for his $1000 dollar bin

 

It would be cool if this site had a system like SP.

- Prilep

 

what kind of system r u talking about?

 

That's stupid lol and should of been reported.

He means the auction/BIN system, it's very similar to Ebay, except it's integrated into a forum as well....

 

The problem with posts just lowering the BIN, as I have seen discussed, is that people put a high bin, so that they can then reduce it, like a sale.

If this happens, then everyone overprices their BIN, knowing that the only negative is that they can lower it and get a bonus bump.

To me, the problem is not it being lowered, but threads where you see the person lowering it 5+ times until they make a sale. Each bump, hurts other sellers who get pushed downward.

 

Yeah there you go. It will be much better.

- Prilep

 

SitePoint Marketplace

http://sitepoint.com/marketplace/

 

thanks for the info. plan on putting a wordpress theme up for bid in a week or two so now i'm ahead and know what not to do

 

Definitely would be! But I think it's been crushed by Shawn lol.

 

Or, I see this being used at another forum.

Instead of a thread going straight to the top once it's been posted in, just in the BST forum a threads position is based on when it was posted. That way a new thread doesn't get pushed to the bottem by popular threads.

Just a thought, don't hate me for it

 

I think I understand.

Whenever someone posts in the thread, it doesn't go to the top, just stays where it was when originally posted - correct?

That's a good idea!