Best Advice To Sellers!

[rookhawk]

Perhaps a minor annoyance, but put the bottom line up front: what are you selling and what is the price? Sellers, please list that in the first paragraph.

While it is interesting that the item belonged to your great-grandpappy and has been used to harvest animals X, Y, and Z ..... if I have to wade through three paragraphs for the basic details on the item for sale, I may never get there.

I'm no salesman, but the gist of sales I'm told is you first explain the value, then you state the price.

Whenever I'm selling something, I try to realistically describe the item, explain comparables, and if I'm asking more than item X, I justify the price with the differences.

Anything I've ever sold, its never the cheapest because I try to own good quality items that have no latent defects or hidden "gotchas".

As an aside, on this forum when I see the price right at the top or with little to no description, the price is usually wrong for the value. Seeing a proper write-up on the item that is articulate at least explains the logic and reasoning the seller went through to assign a price to the item.

 

[Troubleshooter]

I'm no salesman, but the gist of sales I'm told is you first explain the value, then you state the price.

Whenever I'm selling something, I try to realistically describe the item, explain comparables, and if I'm asking more than item X, I justify the price with the differences.

You missed my point.

Sellers can’t explain the “value” until the potential purchaser knows what is being sold. From my perspective as a buyer (the original question posed in this thread) that is important. “I have this old gun that’s been in the family for years and has harvested scores of animals” is not as useful as “For sale: Acme Model 10 in caliber .700 ShoulderCrusher” and I don’t want to read through an entire post to find it.

Once that’s been done, the seller can explain all of the value-packed features that he thinks might justify the asking price.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

It’s a little known fact the gun used by Elmer Fudd was the first produced acme model 10 .700 shoulderCrusher a very versatile weapon used to hunt both fur and feathers. experts agree the acme model ten would of really caught on if not for being prone to barrel obstructions in the form of foot vegetables and rabbit digits.
After the end of the .700 shoulderCrusher line the company remained in business a few more year mostly selling specialty products used predominantly for trapping small flightless desert dwelling birds although results varied.