Craig is largely right on. Add to that you either need a new camera or better lighting, your pictures are all washed out, it shows everything in possibly the worst view possible.
Oh and your trolling for hits at the bottom includes words already in the ad, you don't need to do that and it just makes you look desperate. For these two items I think your prices are too high. The scrap value of the mower is MAYBE $50, last I knew scrap on a CAR was like $200. To get over a hundred you'd have to part it, the aluminum is the only really valuable stuff and theres just not enough. People basically give away woodstoves, I got my Jotul 118 for $200 and it was all cleaned and nice. People want stuff they can install and use not spend a week cleaning up first. Unfortunately your ads all scream "This stuff is all too broken for me to want, maybe you are dumber than I am." Try this: Winter is coming, stay warm with with a Buckstove "Regular Buck" (model 27000) wood burning stove. This stove features an 8 inch flue and blower to help spread the heat around on those cold winter nights. Its also got a screen to allow you open door fires. Enjoy the dancing flames and glowing embers plus the enhanced efficiency of a stove versus a drafty fireplace. This stove was made in the USA by one of our premiere stovemakers who is still in business, parts and manuals available on their website, why buy a cheap junk stove from Asia when you could have made in USA quality for a fraction of the price? This unit has been in storage for the last 10 or 12 years and has a bit of surface rust on the doors and iron frame surrounding the doors. It will clean up like new with minimal effort and some stove black. -Curt Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 21:35:14 -0600 From: Rick Knoble <rickkno...@hotmail.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: [MBZ] OT CL Ads Was CL TRUCK Message-ID: <bay401-eas1291c1ebeb3a73942b17147dd...@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Nov 4, 2012, at 8:53 PM, "Curt Raymond" <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > If I'm honest its not a great ad. If you really want to sell it at least > clear the junk out of it. If you really, really want to sell it invest in a > battery so its running. > > Those are my two biggest pet peeves about Craiglist ads. So what makes good advertising copy? What entices people to make a purchase? I have been trying to sell a wood stove on CL for three months with NO success. As Rod Blagojevic said " This thing is f'ing golden, I'm not going to just give it away". http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwi/for/3380182153.html http://chicago.craigslist.org/nwi/for/3380184075.html That said I really do want to clear my storage space of this crap. What am I doing wrong? Rick Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
