I think we should help Wilton prepare an ad in the classic style.
For starters you need to misspell Mercedes in the heading (OK there will
need to be a lot of spelling mistake), this will get rid of a lot of
time wasters, leaving those who are really searching and those who spell
Mercedes, Mecedes.
Make sure to put the word 'cheap' in there, that will really pull in the
ones that have no money but do have a dream.
Lots of exclamation marks!!!!!!! and CAPITALS!!!!
Perhaps call it a S300DT, to make it sound like a fancy late model Merc?
Lots of letters and numbers to make it sound cool.
Don't go low on price, classic newbie mistake, this is a coleectible so
go for 5k+ but you will be oppen to swaps or trades as weel!!!
Yes you do need pictures but they need to be out of focus, at right
angles or upside down, taken at night, really close up or really far
away. Even better is if you have pictures on the computer, you take
pictures of the pictures but they need to be blurry. Good in focus
pictures that show all of the car are a dead give away that you are a
craiglist noob and the hard core craiglist buyers will shun you.
I think we all know what goes in the description, ice cold AC, 50mpg,
second owner, bio diesel, will last for a 1000 years or these cars go
forever (whichever comes first). Last of the over engineered Benses,
bulletproof german engineering, always garaged, best you'll find, first
to see will buy, don't really want to sell it, classic style, feel like
a millionaire, etc!!!! Go heavy on generic description but vague on detail.
For contact details, you need to put your mobile phone (I believe you
call them cell phones, which I believe stems from the time when they
used to be smuggled into prison, how this smuggling happened you don't
want to know) number in there, so you get to talk to lots of nice folks,
make sure to also put your home phone in too, your missus wants to get
up every 5 minutes to talk to a nice dude who wants to know if you'll
accept 200 plus his worn out motor cross bike, no point in not getting
the missus involved, the family that sells together, stays together. Of
course you could also put in your home address, so those without phones
or the brains to use them can drive around and join you for a chat and
test drive.
Make sure to say that you don't respond to emails, this will make you
look like a veteran of the craiglist!!!!
However the ultimate is that you get your neighbour to list it for you,
the "listing on behalf of a friend" ads are the top of the tree type,
however perhaps you should not overdo it for your first time? Up to you,
I have no doubt that you can handle a 'behalf of a friend' ad but
perhaps it may be a touch too much for a first time, you know if you
make a mistake, like uploading a decent picture or saying it's 40mpg
instead of 50, could lead to all sorts of hard questions being asked,
which may test your friendship. Perhaps until you get the hang of a
proper CL ad you should keep it in house?
Well there is a a bit to get you lot started on the bestest CL ad ever,
that will be guaranteed to draw in the weirdos from far and wide and you
will get some great offers, some will want to swap their
collectibles/junk and such for your car.
You just never know what treasures you could end up with. All part of
the adventure.
Remember if you do this all correct, you will make it to Kalebs list of
CL crackhead of the day, which I believe comes with a certificate of
achievement!!?!?!!
Hendrik
who should have been in sales!!!!
On 08/08/13 06:20, Richard Hattaway wrote:
Just do it, it's not that hard.
Set up an account in your area, it's easy to do, just go to CL and surf around.
Take some pictures, set them for VGA resolution, 640X480, they load faster.
You'll need about 6. It really doesn't matter what they are. On my last sale
I did front, back, side, side, one front tire and a bumper hitch. Sold my
beater 96 Dodge caravan with 315K and minimally working windshield wipers/lousy
paint/clunky tranny/worn tires for $800 and was happy to get it. I got some
lowball offers too.
Be prepared to do business. CL folks are in a hurry. They don't want to see
it tomorrow, they want it right now. Have the title in hand, meet at the bank
where the notary is, do it in the middle of the day.
Be honest, ignore the guys that want to give you less than scrap value for it,
and move it on out of the stable. Oh, and ask someone else what it's worth,
then put it in CL for 100 to 200 higher than that. The guy that buys it will
offer 100 to 200 less than what you ask. You cannot be firm in price on CL.
Richard
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