Rule proposal for auctions/sales threads

[iAchilles]

I'd like to put forward a proposal for a rule whereby sellers are obliged to edit/delete sales information from original posts and titles on auctions and sales threads.

Why am I proposing this? I recently agreed a price on a domain with an end user, everything was set to go ahead and I started the Escrow transaction. After a week of waiting for them to make payment I reached out asking if they required any assistance starting the transaction.

They replied saying they saw the price I had acquired the domain for here on NP and therefore weren't willing to pay more than low-mid $xxx, down from low $xxxx previously agreed.

Personally speaking, I do this a common courtesy on all my sales threads, but many sellers just close the thread and all the details are there to be seen in Google search results, doing the new owner no favours.

I see two viable options, enforce a rule that buyers must edit/remove details, or, posts in auctions/ for sale sections that are marked as closed/locked are tagged with noindex so they don't show up in SERPS.

The first option would obviously be the simplest solution. What are peoples thoughts on this?

 

[JWS]

Yeah, big pet peeve of mine.

 

[Grego85]

I try my best to do this every time anyway, but I would agree that this should be a rule in the marketplace.

 

[korganian]

I think we should have 2 levels of auctions. Wholesale and Retail. Wholesale is for Domainers only and requires membership and login to participate. Wholesale auction should not get indexed at all to protect our trade. Retail would be indexed and allow us to not only attract but even invite end users to bid on our domains so we can get them into a bidding war for maximum gain just like the drop catching auctions.

 

[iAchilles]

I think we should have 2 levels of auctions. Wholesale and Retail. Wholesale is for Domainers only and requires membership and login to participate. Wholesale auction should not get indexed at all to protect our trade. Retail would be indexed and allow us to not only attract but even invite end users to bid on our domains so we can get them into a bidding war for maximum gain just like the drop catching auctions.

Interesting idea and definitely one I would support.

 

[Asfas1000]

No-index would be great IMO. I had a similar incident happen to me once, due to a thread on the other forum.