1) stop posting $600 things for $40 in the title line. you are an idiot. this is not clever. this is a tactic you learned in your junior year of high school marketing class for dummies. this makes the buyer angry.
2) stop posting things for $300 that are only worth $50. just because you put clear tape over fabric that your cat absolutely obliterated with urine does not mean that your $600 Crate and Barrel couch is still worth $300 less than the price you paid for it. hopefully someone will pick it up for free.
3) if you are selling 3 things for $150, $75, $15... please annotate this in your headline, rather than simply listing the product as $15. reference the tone from bullet point 1 for additional information.
4) you are not "letting" anything "go" for $75 when you paid $150 for it 10 years ago. plus you include that it has some scratches and wear, and i appreciate your honesty, but this is still not a deal... not unless it's a Kia.
5) include a picture. have you seen what furniture looks like? do you know what's out there? "couch in great condition-- $150-- serious buyers only" [no picture]." huuuuge sigh. i mean, say i was an after school k-12 tutor and i put up this ad-- "english and science tutor. $55/hour. sorry don't have a scanner or else i'd have included the results of my 2007 public lewdness court case."
6) all caps will not make me buy it more. in fact it makes me think you are way too desperate to get rid of that velour sectional or that 1997 Ford Contour with ****LOW MILES**** (that, for being so amazingly low, are intriguingly not deemed necessary enough to be included in the ad). please write in sentence case, or all lower case, like the rest of america. you are allowed to format with basic html in the ads for a reason. get with the times. fidget with a computer for a bit. learn some other techniques. you know, 400 years ago, if John Smith wasn't adept to new things, who knows how awkward it would have been if he kept asking Pocahontas why she was allowed to eat cow.
thats all for now. i guarantee more will spring up. until then... everyone post immaculate ads with no imperfections so you don't get a bullet point written about you.
-m-
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