Life as December Goat: Day 12
8I enjoy shopping on eBay. I also sell some on eBay. When I sell on eBay, I try to take good photos with a neutral background. I don’t understand how people think taking a picture of something on their un-made bed is a good idea? (This goes for FB marketplace items too but I don’t look there very often.) I find it gross and it is an instant deal-breaker for me. Any instant eBay photo deal-breakers for you?
/giphy bad eBay photos
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@therealjrn not sure what you are selling but I don’t want any!
@therealjrn Kenwood makes teapots? Does it double as a bluetooth speaker?
@JnKL @therealjrn - you can’t complain about the camera placement, though.
@therealjrn That carpet is a neutral background; what’s the problem?
Deal breakers: unclear pictures and descriptions. If you can’t even spend a few extra seconds to take a clear picture and a reasonable description, forget it.
The same goes for Craigslist ads. Call for details means forget it. $1 and it’s not $1? Flag. I’ll also use -keywords to remove a lot of the keyword crammers; fuck you, you’re not getting a sale from me.
@narfcake Agreed. I don’t know if eBay has thwarted it, but some sellers used to add text the same color as the background to cram keywords in for the web crawlers.
On the other hand, there are some tools out there that will search eBay for misspelled listings. Very handy sometimes for auction sales.
When an item is used but people only post stock photos of it. Like I’m going to take my chances on that unknown condition…