Would an illiterate seller put you off buying?
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I absolutely love a badly written Ebay advert, and have got many a bargain from them.
People like you lot, and most other people, will cheerfully ignore a piss-poor advert with awful spelling and bad photos, and then I come along with a bid and possibly win it cheaply. It works to my advantage.
On a number of occasions I have then taken really good photos of the item/car in question, written a much better advert and resold it at a profit.
Recent example from a couple of weeks ago: Needed a new air compressor, and found a Kaeser unit for sale on eBay with an absolutely terrible advert and one bad blurry photo. The text of the advert almost literally said "used compressor 4 sale. Buyer must collect plz", and that was it. No make or model, spec, condition, hours, or anything at all. Terrible. And clearly no one was interested in it.
Undeterred, I phoned up about it and found out it was an engineering company selling it, they bought it new and it had only done 20 hours from new, almost unused. I quickly realised this thing had cost nearly £8000 inc vat and just hadn't been used. I very, very cheeky and offered £3k cash for it and the guy agreed. Went to get it and it was literally like brand new and only used for about 3 days then kept shrink wrapped as a spare.
When I was collecting it the guy commented that no one on eBay seemed really interested in it which amazed him!
His dreadful advert cost him dearly but snagged me a mega bargain.
People like you lot, and most other people, will cheerfully ignore a piss-poor advert with awful spelling and bad photos, and then I come along with a bid and possibly win it cheaply. It works to my advantage.
On a number of occasions I have then taken really good photos of the item/car in question, written a much better advert and resold it at a profit.
Recent example from a couple of weeks ago: Needed a new air compressor, and found a Kaeser unit for sale on eBay with an absolutely terrible advert and one bad blurry photo. The text of the advert almost literally said "used compressor 4 sale. Buyer must collect plz", and that was it. No make or model, spec, condition, hours, or anything at all. Terrible. And clearly no one was interested in it.
Undeterred, I phoned up about it and found out it was an engineering company selling it, they bought it new and it had only done 20 hours from new, almost unused. I quickly realised this thing had cost nearly £8000 inc vat and just hadn't been used. I very, very cheeky and offered £3k cash for it and the guy agreed. Went to get it and it was literally like brand new and only used for about 3 days then kept shrink wrapped as a spare.
When I was collecting it the guy commented that no one on eBay seemed really interested in it which amazed him!
His dreadful advert cost him dearly but snagged me a mega bargain.
As a previous poster stated nope makes me want to go and view it even more as I can get more of a bargin from it. Case in point a pair of mx5 came up local to me 10/15 miles away no photos and with the worst advert ive seen basically went 2 mx5 for sale spares or repairs based in etc need gone.
Popped over after work after a quick look over them could easily make a bit of money from them, got both for a very cheap sum less than what you normally pay for 1. Made all my money back from selling an arc chamber and some interior parts etc shinny bits the oc members love. Wheels from the one made my money double and still have 2 cars to get rid of one will be a rolling shell the other im doing up for an mot and a nice little first mx5 for someone or a drift car/track car etc.
With everything sold including the cars I be looking at a good bit of money to fund my winter turbo build on my exocet track car.
Its good that most people look away from bad adverts means I and a few others can get real bargins. Now would I do the same thing if looking for a 30k car no but the sub 1k market or with machinery its a good chance to get a bargin.
Popped over after work after a quick look over them could easily make a bit of money from them, got both for a very cheap sum less than what you normally pay for 1. Made all my money back from selling an arc chamber and some interior parts etc shinny bits the oc members love. Wheels from the one made my money double and still have 2 cars to get rid of one will be a rolling shell the other im doing up for an mot and a nice little first mx5 for someone or a drift car/track car etc.
With everything sold including the cars I be looking at a good bit of money to fund my winter turbo build on my exocet track car.
Its good that most people look away from bad adverts means I and a few others can get real bargins. Now would I do the same thing if looking for a 30k car no but the sub 1k market or with machinery its a good chance to get a bargin.
MG CHRIS said:
As a previous poster stated nope makes me want to go and view it even more as I can get more of a bargin from it. Case in point a pair of mx5 came up local to me 10/15 miles away no photos and with the worst advert ive seen basically went 2 mx5 for sale spares or repairs based in etc need gone.
Popped over after work after a quick look over them could easily make a bit of money from them, got both for a very cheap sum less than what you normally pay for 1. Made all my money back from selling an arc chamber and some interior parts etc shinny bits the oc members love. Wheels from the one made my money double and still have 2 cars to get rid of one will be a rolling shell the other im doing up for an mot and a nice little first mx5 for someone or a drift car/track car etc.
With everything sold including the cars I be looking at a good bit of money to fund my winter turbo build on my exocet track car.
Its good that most people look away from bad adverts means I and a few others can get real bargins. Now would I do the same thing if looking for a 30k car no but the sub 1k market or with machinery its a good chance to get a bargin.
Pot, kettle...Popped over after work after a quick look over them could easily make a bit of money from them, got both for a very cheap sum less than what you normally pay for 1. Made all my money back from selling an arc chamber and some interior parts etc shinny bits the oc members love. Wheels from the one made my money double and still have 2 cars to get rid of one will be a rolling shell the other im doing up for an mot and a nice little first mx5 for someone or a drift car/track car etc.
With everything sold including the cars I be looking at a good bit of money to fund my winter turbo build on my exocet track car.
Its good that most people look away from bad adverts means I and a few others can get real bargins. Now would I do the same thing if looking for a 30k car no but the sub 1k market or with machinery its a good chance to get a bargin.
Yes definitely. Every car I've bought besides my little Starlet SR daily, I've been drawn in by the advert, all of the adverts had proper spelling and grammar. Always try to speak to the owners on the phone too as sometimes you find they don't seem to know what they're talking about, then I steer clear and look elsewhere.
MG CHRIS said:
As a previous poster stated nope makes me want to go and view it even more as I can get more of a bargin from it. Case in point a pair of mx5 came up local to me 10/15 miles away no photos and with the worst advert ive seen basically went 2 mx5 for sale spares or repairs based in etc need gone.
Popped over after work after a quick look over them could easily make a bit of money from them, got both for a very cheap sum less than what you normally pay for 1. Made all my money back from selling an arc chamber and some interior parts etc shinny bits the oc members love. Wheels from the one made my money double and still have 2 cars to get rid of one will be a rolling shell the other im doing up for an mot and a nice little first mx5 for someone or a drift car/track car etc.
With everything sold including the cars I be looking at a good bit of money to fund my winter turbo build on my exocet track car.
Its good that most people look away from bad adverts means I and a few others can get real bargins. Now would I do the same thing if looking for a 30k car no but the sub 1k market or with machinery its a good chance to get a bargin.
I can see how that might happen. Popped over after work after a quick look over them could easily make a bit of money from them, got both for a very cheap sum less than what you normally pay for 1. Made all my money back from selling an arc chamber and some interior parts etc shinny bits the oc members love. Wheels from the one made my money double and still have 2 cars to get rid of one will be a rolling shell the other im doing up for an mot and a nice little first mx5 for someone or a drift car/track car etc.
With everything sold including the cars I be looking at a good bit of money to fund my winter turbo build on my exocet track car.
Its good that most people look away from bad adverts means I and a few others can get real bargins. Now would I do the same thing if looking for a 30k car no but the sub 1k market or with machinery its a good chance to get a bargin.
It depends the car, if it was one of hundreds advertised then yes, if it looked the right car for me, then I would give it ago, you see the seller could be dyslexic, badly worded adverts are a no no for me, Vtec Yo, its fast as f
k, type of thing, and lack of photo's.
I am a product of a failed education myself, so I try not to judge others on it.
k, type of thing, and lack of photo's.I am a product of a failed education myself, so I try not to judge others on it.
Heh normally terrible ads do put me off. Saying that though the last bike I bought was from a real dodgy looking gumtree ad with crap pictures but it was in a suburb about 20 minutes from me so I went to take a peak and it ended up being one of the most genuine sellers I've ever dealt with. The lads dad even help my clueless self and my friend load it into our van since he was somewhat of an expert at tying down heavy loads. But that was sub £800.
Never had much luck as the success stories in the posts. Text speak straight away don't bother to even carry on reading, rather a normal advert.
I have to say the opposite advert ones, too many surpurilous words to describe no proper servicing and other excuses when they have run the car on a budget and getting rid.
I have to say the opposite advert ones, too many surpurilous words to describe no proper servicing and other excuses when they have run the car on a budget and getting rid.
It depends if it's a car I know so well already (as a model) whether I can afford to take a punt on or not. Literacy isn't something I'm as bothered about as the actual construction of the advert (people might just be st spellers and crap with grammar).
But if the advert itself is st, and shows no effort, then it pretty much reflects the car in my eyes. If you can't be bothered to be enthused enough to construct a proper advert, what are the chances you were enthused enough to look after the thing?
t spellers and crap with grammar).But if the advert itself is s
t, and shows no effort, then it pretty much reflects the car in my eyes. If you can't be bothered to be enthused enough to construct a proper advert, what are the chances you were enthused enough to look after the thing?Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff