Pictures, More Pictures

Macrojack: It is what it is!!

So's the weather - but people talk about it.

Macrojack, why get upset? If you don't want to take more pictures, don't. No one is telling you how to post an ad, they're are just giving helpful sales hints. Photos help sell, if you don't want to take any photos, don't. If you don't want to take more photos, don't. If you don't want to write a description, don't. Do wantever you want, and live with the results.

I'm starting to wonder if you simply started this thread to get more people to look at your ads.......

Here's my view - If I'm selling a hi$ component, and a prospective buyer requests more pictures, or asks nitty questions, I don't think for a nanosecond about whether to comply. It takes at most 10 min to take shots from multiple angles and upload them to an email.

Certainly, do what you want. But if I was a buyer interested in your sale and you balked at sending me some pic's, it would probably be the last conversation we had. Feedback isn't everything, and I agree pic's aren't everything either, but, it's so easy to be accommodating and demonstrate goodwill by being responsive.

$11,000 worth of gear and you can't be bothered to spend 3 minutes and take a few more shots at a buyers request?

I'm not upset. And I don't need more hits. The response has been quite adequate. In fact, I'm not even all that eager to sell. It costs six bucks to drop your line in the water and there are upgrades I would pursue if the planets were to align favorably, but what I have is pretty new and pretty nice.

The reason for the thread is simple enough - I just sold a couple of stereo amps and traded a phono section for an amp. None of this required suspicions or proof. Naturally, it's nice to see the product in a photo. Certainly it makes sense for a buyer to sometimes need a specific question answered or a specific detail revealed. What I've gotten lately were requests for more photos, without any conversation whatsoever. In fact, as far as I could tell, pictures were all the guy wanted. Sorry, but that rubbed me the wrong way.

So the speaker ad, with its 2700 or so hits, will expire in a few days and I'll try again someday maybe.

I've noticed in the past that ridiculously low offers tend to appear just before an ad expires. Anybody else had that experience?