You all are teaching me something here! Thank you for starting this thread! I'm thankful that I don't have an instagram.....lol
I love "window shopping" on IG, but totally agree that not having the price listed drives me crazy! I don't want to DM for price, because WTF is the point if something is so far out of my budget? I've asked about a few pieces and then felt like an idiot when they were thousands more than I expected. If the price were listed, I never would have wasted the sellers time with a DM!
I once tentatively reached out about a rose cut diamond thinking it was maybe 4K or in the ballpark, because the seller had said to DM for price. Got a message back like "This particular diamond is $12.5K, it would make a great pendant, do you want to see a video?" and I'm sitting here like oh god oh god never mind!!!
I love "window shopping" on IG, but totally agree that not having the price listed drives me crazy! I don't want to DM for price, because WTF is the point if something is so far out of my budget? I've asked about a few pieces and then felt like an idiot when they were thousands more than I expected. If the price were listed, I never would have wasted the sellers time with a DM!
I once tentatively reached out about a rose cut diamond thinking it was maybe 4K or in the ballpark, because the seller had said to DM for price. Got a message back like "This particular diamond is $12.5K, it would make a great pendant, do you want to see a video?" and I'm sitting here like oh god oh god never mind!!!
THIS. I've bought a lot of things on IG lately but it still frustrates me that for the most part prices are not disclosed. Half of the things I'm interested in I wouldn't bother asking about, then when I finally DO ask, half of those are WAY out of my budget and that's just depressing. And I'm not talking just a little over, I recently saw a beautiful star sapphire and DM to ask for price, it was like $15K I was in so much shock I couldn't even bother to respond "thanks but no thanks".this is my life. Except I try to find things under 1K and they are always more like 3-4K!
That would be a quick and easy report for spam....I asked for the price of a diamond from a vendor on IG (I'd never heard of them), and they asked that I DM them. They gave me the price, then I told them thanks, but not interested. This IG account then started DM-ing me like once or twice a week with other diamonds and prices (and those stones weren't even close to the specs I'd asked about originally). It was annoying, to say the least.
Meanwhile I can't get someone to go through with a sale after an agreement to save my life.Well it works in reverse too I post a pic of something from my collection I don't want to sell, clearly write not for sale all over the post and then get a lot of messages all asking me if I want to sell it. Or I post a $90.00 cut spinel that I do want to sell and 35 people all message me wanting to buy it and then for the next 2 years people continue to message me they want to buy it when I've clearly written sold all over that post. I'm sure people that sell a lot of items on there must get frustrated at times too.
Going off the model that they could give different prices to different people, what then happens if multiple people DM about a piece? They give different prices and then when you say you want it, you may end up not getting it because someone DM’d them after you but agreed to pay a higher price so they get the piece. That’s shady to me.
Going off the model that they could give different prices to different people, what then happens if multiple people DM about a piece? They give different prices and then when you say you want it, you may end up not getting it because someone DM’d them after you but agreed to pay a higher price so they get the piece. That’s shady to me.
I also find it annoying. Some will list the price, but most will make you DM them or go to their site.
Or they do not have a website of their own, aren't on any selling platform like eBay.Going to the site wouldn't be that bad, a lot of the time the item is not listed on the site
I wouldn't think anyone in the trade is shy about contacting a vendor who displays retail prices & asking for a lower, trade price.I think it's more complex than that. You have people wanting to buy things wholesale so there is one price for them and people who have a lot of items listed on other platforms like Etsy and Rubylane. Both of those sites charge fees so the price they give is often cheaper than there unless someone wants to pay it off or use the checkout via those platforms, so some of those things might account for price differences.
I was speaking strictly about IG. I have “relationships” with a few vendors because I have worked with them in the past. Hypothetically I might DM about a piece and get a price of $4800. Someone else who has never dealt with them could have DM’d them 30 mins earlier and they quote them $5200 for the same piece. I respond back first to say that I will take it. But the vendor could hold off waiting to see it the other person responds before agreeing to sell it to me and risk losing $400 more in profit. And all the while, neither myself or the other person knows someone else is ready to buy it.I think it's more complex than that. You have people wanting to buy things wholesale so there is one price for them and people who have a lot of items listed on other platforms like Etsy and Rubylane. Both of those sites charge fees so the price they give is often cheaper than there unless someone wants to pay it off or use the checkout via those platforms, so some of those things might account for price differences.