How many times have you clicked on a Craigslist ad to see an item and seen this instead? "Camera broken, promise good quality?" Maybe you should send that person these Craigslist Rules to get it sold, something we drummed up while covering Scavenger for a week...
• 1 Take good pictures. That means, take it outside and photograph in the grass away from house clutter. And daylight is better than lamp light.
• 2 Show multiple pictures. If we can't quite see the item online, we might not want to see it in person.
• 3 Don't show the picture of the item from the store's Web site where you got it. We want to make sure it hasn't been painted or scratched.
• 4 Don't overprice. Search Craigslist to see what similar items are selling for. (We have done this before. It's hard to sell an overpriced, reused Billy bookcase.)
• 5 Describe in detail so the buyer trusts you.
• 6 Write, "Love it but don't have room anymore!" That always gets us to take a closer look.
• 7 If you really want to sell that item fast, offer to deliver, even for a little extra cash. We bought a dresser from a guy because he said he'd deliver &mdash and we had no way to transport, short of renting a U-Haul &mdash and paid him $20 extra for his time and gas. If he hadn't offered, we would probably still have piles of clothes on the floor.
What other rules would you add?
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My main Craigslist tip, which I readily give away and will eventually come back to bite me, is to let CL search for you.
I haunt CL daily for a number of things including Letterpress, Eames, Barrister, Lambretta, etc.
Search for your term, and even if you find nothing, click on the RSS link at the bottom, then bookmark that link. Mine go into a bookmarks folder under my address bar. Every day there are 30 or so links to investigate, and appears in the bar saying Craigslist (30) or something like that in my browser (Safari). 95% of them are not what I want, but I have sniped some good items with it.
happy hunting!
Thanks for the tip kvh, I'm definitely going to use it.
My tip is, if you're selling something unusually sized, include something else in one of the photos to give a sense of scale. For example, I just went and looked at a computer armoire someone was selling. I knew it was small from the measurements in the ad (there's another tip - always provide dimensions), but I didn't realize it was far too small until I saw it in person. If the seller had included a chair in a photo, I wouldn't have wasted their time.
Include exact dimensions, weight, and any other info necessary for transportation.
A CL pet peeve of mine...Delete your old post when you repost your item. I'm all for reposting to keep near the top, but who needs repeats and CL does not need their servers clogged w/dups.