The 1 Simple Trick That Took Me From 0 Buyers in 2 Months to 4 in the First Day! - $3000 Product

[MitchC]

The product is actually my car, but I got you interested huh?

Anyway...

I have been trying to sell my car for about 2 months now. I have posted it around 4 times and had one response from a guy who never showed up. Really discouraging and frustrating.

Anyway so I have this weekend off which is the only weekend I get in a month off so I decided that this weekend I will sell it, no matter what, I was even prepared to take a huge price drop!

So I changed a few things and re-posted it not expecting much to happen. In the first hour one guy offered me $1500, half my asking price, I actually thought I may have to take it and said I would get back to him. Nothing happened for a few hours and then after 4 hours I had a guy coming to look. He offered to give me $2800 on Monday and I said yes. Since then I have had 3 more people reply, all very interested in the car.

So from 0 interest in 2 months, to 5 offers in the same day!

What I did was so simple but the results have amazed me! Same car, same price, same photos!

All I did was change the title from:

2003 Toyota Corolla Hatchback

to

Quick Little Gas Saver - Well Cared For!

And I changed the main photo to one of the others in the advert, it was better lit and showed the car a bit better.

I also think posting it on the weekend helped immensely.

Simple common sense stuff and you hear it all the time, it's nothing new, I'm not claiming I'm a genius for sharing it, the reason I made this thread was simply because I just couldn't believe the difference it made. I figured in a small town with not many cars for sale if someone was interested they would look regardless. I was wrong.


In other news while checking my advert out I saw an ad for an iPad, 2 months old, with box etc and I talked him down to $100, you really don't know what people will take, he even dropped it to my house. So all in all, despite not working all weekend, I'm a lot richer

 

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[randomnumber314]

Congrats. Much better than my attempt to sell our Jeep w/ great photos and good sales copy. I never changed the title

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Great story and proves the value of being skilled at making headlines that draw eyeballs.

Anyone could probably make a living buying poorly advertised stuff @ Craigslist and reselling it at higher prices by just changing the copy, the headline, and the pictures, etc.

Rep+

 

[Deleted20833]

You made the value proposition easier to understand by making it more "tangible"..the first headline spoke on product...second spoke on benefit

 

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[NicoleMarie]

This might be helpful for me as I'm about to sell my ipad mini.

 

[DaRK9]

I did this recently with my Canon Rebel T2i. I saw everyone had "Canon Camera", or just the model number for the title. I thought for a second and put mine as, "Capture Priceless Moments with Ease in HD".

Sold it the next day for my asking price.