Why won't my car sell? Help needed!

motorguy

gilbert_and_sullivan wrote: »

Yes i understand the animosity to the secondary search spamming on ebay.

However most people only search for the usual default cars, completely overlooking alternatives, it only takes one buyer to see the car that they never previously considered and its worth it.

But what about the 10 you've put off because of it?

Rolandtheroadie

motorguy wrote: »

But what about the 10 you've put off because of it?

It annoys me too as I'm always looking for something specific, but you've only really annoyed people that arnt interested anyway.

gkerr4

feels expensive to me to be honest - no offence, but the corrolla isn't a car you buy because you lust after it - it's no audi TT or golf GTi - it's a humdrum hatchback which you buy because you need cheap, reliable transport
Its 8 years old, and an unusual auto-box (i love auto's - but there are cars which are 'better' with an auto - big saloons, SUV's, any mercedes - and some where the auto is a detraction) i'd have thought the webuyanycar price was pretty good - personally, i'd advertise it again at around £2700 and hope to get £2500 and if not, punt it on to webuyanycar - just my 2p

jaydeeuk1

mad_rich wrote: »

I agree with the rest of your advice, but:



:mad:

That's keyword spamming and it kills baby kittens.

Here's a little trick for you OP, you can have it for free

In my ebay days, I used to sell laptops, desktops etc, and I found a lot of people would search by title AND description. I didn't want to spam the title, and besides there was little space. So being the little hacker that I am...

In the description just add at the bottom...

<div style = "visibility:hidden">A load of spam keywords here....
</div>

I had thousands of keywords , my listings would appear in every nearly category if the buyer looked for description, and they'd be none the wiser.

forgotmyname

I find phoning the people who use spamming keywords. Just phoned one now and he told me to go away...

How was i to know he has to get up at 4:30 tomorrow?

He didnt use the time to call as a keyword.

zappahey

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

Here's a little trick for you OP, you can have it for free

In my ebay days, I used to sell laptops, desktops etc, and I found a lot of people would search by title AND description. I didn't want to spam the title, and besides there was little space. So being the little hacker that I am...

In the description just add at the bottom...

<div style = "visibility:hidden">A load of spam keywords here....
</div>

I had thousands of keywords , my listings would appear in every nearly category if the buyer looked for description, and they'd be none the wiser.

Which, like other keyword spamming methods, is against ebay's policy and risks getting the listing pulled.

http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/search-manipulation.html