Nov 28 2008
What Not to Do in an eBay Listing
Take a look at this listing . Quite thorough, eh? Now think about it from a buyer’s perspective. I was interested in a shoe rack. I wanted to see an up-close picture and find out about the shipping. Instead, I was inundated with pages and pages of information about the company, their employees, their philosophies and what will happen in any possible contingency.
I won’t be buying from them. Why? Because there are a milion other listings for shoe racks and they don’t make you spend 20 minutes reading about their policies. Most buyers know that they are agreeing to the terms of the sale by bidding. If they don’t have the time to read through all of the rules, they may miss something important that can mess up the transaction. It could say in there that if the item does’t arrive, I have to sent them 12 grapefruit in a wooden container. But I’ll never know because I’ve gone on to other, cleaner listings.
