Properly Posting A "For Sale" Ad
Properly Posting A "For Sale" Ad
Thesis:
First you have to think about the audience. People are inclined to decide when a visual is presented to them. You want to make sure that the audience can see what your trying to sell. The Object is to sell the item not to confuse people.
Most common mistakes:
1. No picture, price, important details, and location.
a. This causes wasteful bandwidth and post because our users will have to either PM or post asking those fundamental questions in order to figure if they should buy.
b. If you are vague or indecisive don't post. we'll know if your trying to deceive use if you post less information.
Titles:
Make sure the title is clear. Don't put "Rims". Make sure its Specific like "16" Bronze Mugen MF8". Dont put Emoticons in your title since they disabled them in the forums now. Dont have to put "For Sale" or "FS" because its in the for sale topic. It just wastes space for specific information. Putting year of the item is good too like in case of a car or part from a specific year. "93' Isle Green del Sol Si" or "96' Front bumper". Its up to you if you want to put the price at the end of the topic. It might help. If your item has been sold, edit your thread and change it to SOLD or "<SOLD> Chicken del Sol <SOLD>"
Pictures:
This is an important topic. Pictures will make the sale or lose one. I suggest if you don't have a place to upload them, use ImageShack® - Hosting or Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket(KLN). Thumb nailing your items help keep the post clean.
Description:
coming soon or never.
A few quick tips you can rely on are:
1. Post a picture in before the text.
2. If interested the audience will read the text.
3. Make sure you post the location of the item and the final price(Include shipping)
4. Use spell check
5. Research before posting.
6. Imageshack.us is a great image hosting site to use.
7. No camera, no problem, use your fancy words to "wuu" your audience.
8. Don't Multi-Post
9. Thumbnails have a cleaner appearance(Imageshack has this option)
10. Provide a reliable contact number/email
11. Make sure the Title is clearly what your selling(if multi items then ignore)
12. If your selling a car tell us, oil, transmission fluid, time belt, tune up changes so we know what kinda condition its in.
13. Take your time. write it in notepad then post. if you have less then 100 words on an item then its most likely not going to be cared about.
[START OF EXAMPLE]
[quote]Subject: 16" Rota C8 Full Royal Sport Bronze With Toyo Proxies FZ4
Message:
I've had these rims for about 4,000miles. They are displayed with 4x Authentic Mugen caps which are $150 extra. I'm looking to sell these for $1000 but give me offers. They still have good thread and are very clean.
Price: $1000 OBO
Extras: $150 Mugen caps
Location: Sacramento, CA 95823
Rota's Website
ROTA Wheels
Toyo's Website
Toyo Tires - Proxes FZ4™
[END OF EXAMPLE]
Multi-item SALE Section:
Thesis:
Although it seems like a great idea and take less space and easier to manage. I strongly disagree using this method. Most of the time Users are checking them because they might sell something they want and find them selves with parts they don't want. But this section is not for me to rant about why i don't like them. Its about making it much more detailed.
Titles:
This is the most problematic part. I know you do this because it attracts more users, but its wrong in my opinion. The least you can do is label what kind of items. Instead of wasting valuable characters like (~!_^*) use them for details.
Details:
Before posting your items. Please provide the location and shipping sender(UPS, USPS, Fedex)
Tips:
1. Thumbnails are perfect. Bandwidth is eaten when you post full size.
2. Titles should have some detail EX
!~Vic's RARE JDM PARTS~!)
sticky maybe?
First you have to think about the audience. People are inclined to decide when a visual is presented to them. You want to make sure that the audience can see what your trying to sell. The Object is to sell the item not to confuse people.
Most common mistakes:
1. No picture, price, important details, and location.
a. This causes wasteful bandwidth and post because our users will have to either PM or post asking those fundamental questions in order to figure if they should buy.
b. If you are vague or indecisive don't post. we'll know if your trying to deceive use if you post less information.
Titles:
Make sure the title is clear. Don't put "Rims". Make sure its Specific like "16" Bronze Mugen MF8". Dont put Emoticons in your title since they disabled them in the forums now. Dont have to put "For Sale" or "FS" because its in the for sale topic. It just wastes space for specific information. Putting year of the item is good too like in case of a car or part from a specific year. "93' Isle Green del Sol Si" or "96' Front bumper". Its up to you if you want to put the price at the end of the topic. It might help. If your item has been sold, edit your thread and change it to SOLD or "<SOLD> Chicken del Sol <SOLD>"
Pictures:
This is an important topic. Pictures will make the sale or lose one. I suggest if you don't have a place to upload them, use ImageShack® - Hosting or Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket(KLN). Thumb nailing your items help keep the post clean.
Description:
coming soon or never.
A few quick tips you can rely on are:
1. Post a picture in before the text.
2. If interested the audience will read the text.
3. Make sure you post the location of the item and the final price(Include shipping)
4. Use spell check
5. Research before posting.
6. Imageshack.us is a great image hosting site to use.
7. No camera, no problem, use your fancy words to "wuu" your audience.
8. Don't Multi-Post
9. Thumbnails have a cleaner appearance(Imageshack has this option)
10. Provide a reliable contact number/email
11. Make sure the Title is clearly what your selling(if multi items then ignore)
12. If your selling a car tell us, oil, transmission fluid, time belt, tune up changes so we know what kinda condition its in.
13. Take your time. write it in notepad then post. if you have less then 100 words on an item then its most likely not going to be cared about.
[START OF EXAMPLE]
[quote]Subject: 16" Rota C8 Full Royal Sport Bronze With Toyo Proxies FZ4
Message:
I've had these rims for about 4,000miles. They are displayed with 4x Authentic Mugen caps which are $150 extra. I'm looking to sell these for $1000 but give me offers. They still have good thread and are very clean.
Price: $1000 OBO
Extras: $150 Mugen caps
Location: Sacramento, CA 95823
Rota's Website
ROTA Wheels
Toyo's Website
Toyo Tires - Proxes FZ4™
[END OF EXAMPLE]
Multi-item SALE Section:
Thesis:
Although it seems like a great idea and take less space and easier to manage. I strongly disagree using this method. Most of the time Users are checking them because they might sell something they want and find them selves with parts they don't want. But this section is not for me to rant about why i don't like them. Its about making it much more detailed.
Titles:
This is the most problematic part. I know you do this because it attracts more users, but its wrong in my opinion. The least you can do is label what kind of items. Instead of wasting valuable characters like (~!_^*) use them for details.
Details:
Before posting your items. Please provide the location and shipping sender(UPS, USPS, Fedex)
Tips:
1. Thumbnails are perfect. Bandwidth is eaten when you post full size.
2. Titles should have some detail EX
!~Vic's RARE JDM PARTS~!)sticky maybe?
Member
Joined: Dec 2007
Posts: 1,783
From: Torrance, CA
Honestly...I think if even some as in half of that gets adopted it would be easier to sell items and it would make viewing easier.
I loose interest so quickly when the description is too vague or pics are unavailable, much more often than I would like (or like to admit for that matter)
two recent ones in particular....so much for the impulse buys....
it does help cut down on those though
VVVV its funnier when its--->"use spel chek"......... haahaaa
I loose interest so quickly when the description is too vague or pics are unavailable, much more often than I would like (or like to admit for that matter)
two recent ones in particular....so much for the impulse buys....
it does help cut down on those though
VVVV its funnier when its--->"use spel chek"......... haahaaa
Last edited by Snap Fit; Feb 20, 2008 at 04:13 AM. Reason: since people are scanning for spelling I thought I would recheck mine.....
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