This guy must be a graduate.

http://merced.craigslist.org/mcy/3103779157.html

Some of the ads you see on CL are absolutely THE worst I have ever seen, to the point where you wonder if the seller is even real?   I saw one a while back where the title was "Motorcycle for sale".   Then when I clicked it out of curiosity, it repeated the title with a phone number.   No picture, no description, no make/model, no year, natha!   What these folks probably don't realize is they have automatically screened out 90% of potential buyers.

And yet, it got you to look at it.  You figured you were the one out of 10 people who'd consider it, and therefore buyers would be scarce and you'd be more likely to get a good deal.  But there are probably more than 10% of CL watchers of the same mindset, maybe enough to get even more potential buyers than a fully informative ad!

So is the seller just lazy and ignorant, or actually being clever by appearing lazy and ignorant.. you never know.  Could be someone who doesn't know what they have.  Could be someone wanting to just "get it gone" with as little effort as possible. Could be a divorce situation where the woman wants to sell her ex's bike for $50 out of spite!  

Out of the ignorant looking ads that have a price on them, there is a whole continuum from deranged high price to screaming good deal. I got about "half off" my last bike by clicking an ad that was pretty much just: model, year, price.  After learning the approximate condition, mileage, and title status I told the guy he was asking way too little money, but he stayed true to the ad.

Boule’tard wrote on 07/16/12 at 13:38:34:


You may be right... hmmm... maybe he knows that I know that he knows his ad looks dumb with an upside down motorcycle picture.   Of course, he is assuming that I am not from Australia, because in Australia...

360k+ wrote on 07/16/12 at 08:44:36:



As is the case with way too many, you buy them books and they eat the covers.  Obviously, the "seller" "thinks" we can read his mind, if, in fact, he has one.

Here is another advertising twister from CL.

20O6 suzuki salvage 650 - $1

http://lexington.craigslist.org/mcy/3087391713.html

360+. I'll bite. Why John Smith?

Good hunting

Here is an eBay listing that confused me.  The seller is trying to sell this tank at a cost that is almost 6 times the list price!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HARLEY-DAVIDSON-GAS-FUEL-TANK-PRIMED-EVO-FLHTCU-TOURI...

Does he just do this for advertising?  What good is advertising that you are inflating your prices?