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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: billyprod on March 15, 2012, 06:35 pm

Title: Custom Listings
Post by: billyprod on March 15, 2012, 06:35 pm
Sorry if stupid question. What is a custom listing?  for example-

Custom listing for 31ep

Title: Re: Custom Listings
Post by: Appa on March 15, 2012, 06:39 pm
If I were a vendor who sold chocolate cake by the slice, and you were a buyer who wanted 79 slices, I would make a custom order for you to buy them in bulk, probably at a discounted rate.
Title: Re: Custom Listings
Post by: billyprod on March 15, 2012, 06:59 pm
Ok, but then why are custom orders offered at a standardised price?
I understand customisation, but not the letters and prices with the specific custom order options seen throughout SR.
Title: Re: Custom Listings
Post by: Appa on March 15, 2012, 07:08 pm
You don't know they're at standard prices, since you don't know what comes in any given custom order.  It's only listed for everyone to see because there's not a private option.  Only the person who the order is for will be allowed by the vendor to buy it.
Example: silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/silkroad/item/0d084470e3
That's a custom listing for someone with the initials PB.  What is being sold?  We don't know.  Maybe it's an amount of product in increments 3Jane doesn't normally sell in.  Maybe it's a product she only told PB about and doesn't want everyone to know yet.  Maybe she and PB are friends, and the custom order is discounted.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your question?