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.
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.
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