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Pillar of the Community
United States
1283 Posts |
Putting in the subject comments like, "WOW!" or "LQQK" or "Looks Better!"
Perhaps I sweat the small stuff too much, but I find them quite annoying. They make me view the seller as a slick car salesman and I tend to not want to bid on the item.
My question is, do you think they actually work?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
603 Posts |
I agree with you, I view auctions like that with suspicion. If they use tactics like that they better have VERY good pictures or it's on to the next one.
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Rest in Peace
United States
5375 Posts |
My favorite one was "Your satisfaction is more important than me making money on this coin". I get that he probably meant 'long term satisfaction in order to make more money', but it sounded so suspicious.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1807 Posts |
Or the one that says "Trust me",
Ok here's my money.
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Valued Member
United States
147 Posts |
I don't know how people that use those tactics sell so many coins. Also surprising how many have %100 rating. I'll pass. It is really annoying when they say " positive feedback after the buyer leaves positive FB" If I make the purchase and pay my bill quickly , I deserve positive FB. And then let the product stand on it's own. Don't hold my FB for ransom. I sell on ebay, not to many coins, and when I am paid I will give pos FB. If I make a purchase I will not leave FB first. It should be seller. Edited by adco1149
12/06/2009 2:31 pm
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Moderator
 Australia
16859 Posts |
The people who do it clearly think it helps, but personally I think it's a waste of space. When's the last time you did an ebay search for "wow" or "!!" or "lqqk"? Surely they could have used those letter slots to convey some actual useful information or meaningful words that people actually search for, like "silver" or "toned" or whatever. I would think that using such words would be futile for attracting searchers, and would scare away browsers. The only excuse I can think of to justify it is when the seller actually doesn't know what the relevant words are, because they're not familiar with coins or numismatic jargon. Someone who's sold more than a dozen coins has no excuse, in my opinion. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I get a chuckle out of the mentally-challenged that list everything as 'vintage' or 'rare'. C'mon, if you search for those terms you'll just blow off their auctions. Unless you're one of them......  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1840 Posts |
I've wondered the same thing myself. If I see titles like that, I almost never give the auction a second glance. I would venture to guess that most experienced collectors would do the same thing.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
968 Posts |
For me it would be a turn off. But don't underestimate the stupidity of a lot of people out there. I run a small business (not coin related). The homepage of my website has a prominent link that says "rates and services". When you go to that page it very clearly explains what services I offer and what the price is. Yet I get calls all the time from people that say they had been looking over my website, but still ask me very basic questions about my rates and services.
Similarly, my advertising has been dumbed down over time as I find people don't really want to read anything. I get better responses out of ads that have prominent key words and simple sentences than I do anything that is informative but takes 30 seconds to read.
So it wouldn't surprise me of some of those things you see in the ads actually do attract some buyers that otherwise might not notice it. As annoying as they may be, I can only say more power to the seller if it helps them get better sales prices on his auctions.
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Posted 12/06/2009 1:00 pm
