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Originally Posted by timex
Heres an idea... not a great one but I think it could be ok
For anyone who regularly buys pieces, when they open up a thread and elect not to buy a piece because of newfound information in the thread(whether it be markup, the schedule, the opponents poor results, whatever) make a post just saying "I will not be purchasing action".
This will inform other buyers of the levels of disinterest without having one person get screwed over too badly as tourbound did. If people came in and say 30 people express disinterest in one sentence, that would give investors the knowledge that this may not be a good buy without questioning someone's character or putting them on the spot too much.
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Originally Posted by DoGGz
Seems impractical to get a large number of people to do this. Who would lead the charge and be the first to do so?
I don't even think large numbers are necessary. There likely is some hierarchy/order/grouping to buyers that buyers themselves are aware of so that some moderate sample of people saying something simple like this should be a reasonable indicator of where the market is at/trending on someone's/similar offer.
It really shouldn't be mass peer pressure or a sort of soft blacklisting that stops a buyer from buying a mediocre to bad package. There are a lot of ideas itt that aim to help protect the buyer. It starts with buyers protecting themselves, and I don't think it requires very large numbers to do so, just that larger numbers will likely make it more efficient.
The beauty of doing it Timex's way is that it's generally fair to everyone, requires almost no effort on the part of those who have decided to pass on the offer, and helps keep the marketplace efficient with feedback that possibly otherwise wouldn't be there, while hopefully helping prevent threads from getting derailed. You can make that comment in anyone's thread without going any further and nobody should have a complaint.