[elshackovillages]

Seems like posting a classified on here, is a bit useless. If I post a $200- item for sale, at a price of only $40-, it gets 300 views, but never a buyer. Yet, if I post it for that same price on Facebook or EBay, it has a better chance of selling. Are people who look at classifieds on this site just lookers? Why waste your time, if you have no intention of ever buying?

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by elshackovillages

Seems like posting a classified on here, is a bit useless. If I post a $200- item for sale, at a price of only $40-, it gets 300 views, but never a buyer. Yet, if I post it for that same price on Facebook or EBay, it has a better chance of selling. Are people who look at classifieds on this site just lookers? Why waste your time, if you have no intention of ever buying?

Curiosity. Just like now.

[Rainger99]

Originally Posted by elshackovillages

Seems like posting a classified on here, is a bit useless. If I post a $200- item for sale, at a price of only $40-, it gets 300 views, but never a buyer. Yet, if I post it for that same price on Facebook or EBay, it has a better chance of selling. Are people who look at classifieds on this site just lookers? Why waste your time, if you have no intention of ever buying?

Facebook and eBay have a lot more prospective buyers! TOTV is a very small website compared to the other two.

[Arctic Fox]

Originally Posted by elshackovillages

If I post a $200- item for sale, at a price of only $40-, it gets 300 views, but never a buyer.

Try upping the price - listing too cheap can make people think something is wrong with it

I had a bed that didn't sell for $175 but did for $325

[HappyTraveler]

Originally Posted by elshackovillages

Seems like posting a classified on here, is a bit useless. If I post a $200- item for sale, at a price of only $40-, it gets 300 views, but never a buyer. Yet, if I post it for that same price on Facebook or EBay, it has a better chance of selling. Are people who look at classifieds on this site just lookers? Why waste your time, if you have no intention of ever buying?

Like Rainger said, the number of potential lookers/buyers on TOTV is dramatically smaller than on Facebook, Ebay, etc.

A comment I'll make is, truth bomb alert, most of the Classified ads on here are terrible. I contend that the listers wouldn't buy something based on their own images and text. I don't know what they're thinking when they post them.

Suggestions from a long time online marketer:
-- Good images matter! Use the best lighting you have, get up close to object and post the largest size photo this site allows.
-- Dimensions matter! Amazes me how many post furniture ads with no dimensions provided.
-- Describe the condition of the item and any other key attributes
-- Mention the Village name where it can be seen/picked-up. And include the price IN THE AD not just in the title. Otherwise, viewers are having to flip back and forth as they go thru ads. It's annoying. I would also include the date listed in the ad.

Bottom line: Think about what info, you as a buyer, would want to see to be interested in taking the next step.

[Arctic Fox]

Originally Posted by HappyTraveler

Suggestions for a long time online marketer:
-- Good images matter! Use the best lighting you have, get up close to object and post the largest size photo this site allows.
-- Dimensions matter! Amazes me how many post furniture ads with no dimensions provided.
-- Describe the condition of the item and any other key attributes
-- Mention the Village name where it can be seen/picked-up. And include the price IN THE AD not just in the title. Otherwise, viewers are having to flip back and forth as they go thru ads. It's annoying. I would also include the date listed in the ad.

All good advice - and get your photos in the correct orientation - looking at something sideways is annoying

[shut the front door]

Originally Posted by Rainger99

Facebook and eBay have a lot more prospective buyers! TOTV is a very small website compared to the other two.

This. Also, I do not go to the classifieds because it requires me turning off my ad block. No way in heck I'm turning off my ad block on this site, they are abundant and annoying.

[Rainger99]

Originally Posted by HappyTraveler

Dimensions matter! Amazes me how many post furniture ads with no dimensions provided.

And if you do post the dimensions, make sure the measurements posted are correct!!

We saw a very nice piece of furniture on TOTV and the size was perfect for our bedroom. When we drove (from Sawgrass to near Savannah Center) up there to buy the piece, it turned out that she had measured incorrectly (not really sure how you do that) and the piece was way too large for us.

[Rzepecki]

We’ve had a great deal of success selling items on TOTV.

[Ignatz]

I answered several ads for used golf carts when we arrived.

The ones that did answer my inquiries advised their carts were sold long ago and the TOTV classifieds were pretty much all outdated.

I never looked at the classifieds again.

[BlueStarAirlines]

TOTV has classifieds?

[MikeN]

I have sold many items on the villages but sell trade site and usually on the first day of posting

[Rainger99]

Originally Posted by MikeN

I have sold many items on the villages but sell trade site and usually on the first day of posting

What is the Villages but sell trade site?

[ThirdOfFive]

Depends on the item, I suppose. I sold a Meade reflector telescope here and it sold the same day that it went up on the site. It sold for nearly as much as I had purchased it for.

[G.R.I.T.S.]

I sold a golf cart in one day on TOTV. Depends on what you’re selling.