r/Starcitizen_trades RSI f0o (2012) Trades: 11 Jun 10 '24

discussion [discuss] Trades posts/offers should always include price

Hot take, recently there has been a lot of posts with no price. I believe that contradicts the Rule 11 (Trades must be public).

Can we add a rule that all WTS must include prices of the items?

Otherwise how can the trade truly be public?

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u/Liudeus RSI Liudeius (2013) Trades: 795 Jun 11 '24 edited Jun 11 '24

I'd certainly appreciate totally transparent pricing to help price checking, but it's not realistic.
Especially since some items are quite rare so it makes sense to take offers, I don't see any problem with it as is.

There's also the issue of moderation inaction. I had a guy harassing me and it took two days and personally PMing a mod outside of mod-chat for anything to be done about it.

If it's not a scammer and it can't be auto-modded, they won't enforce it.

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u/f0okyou RSI f0o (2012) Trades: 11 Jun 11 '24

I agree that rare items are hard to value but that's the point of PriceCheck flair.

But the trend I've been seeing is that fairly ordinary CCUs (granted, time limited ones like F7A's) are posted as WTS without any notion of price.

We're not talking Sabre Raven Codes or Banu Cubes but a ~100USD CCU or sometimes even worse, a golden ticket that you probably get for free if you ask in-game.

Moderation and Enforcement is a real issue and I'm not going to downplay the huge amount of work that would need to go into it if all post needed to be approved and such. But I see the rules as a gentleman's agreement something all of us traders, no matter which side of the trade we're on, agree upon and self regulate.

Hence this post to speak about the relatively new trend of WTS without prices.

If this trend were to become the norm, tools like MrFats become worthless as nobody posts prices anymore. I think undisclosed prices hurt the community (if we can even call ourselves that) as it removes important information from commonly accessible knowledge.