Yesterday was one cent auction listings on eBay. So like the good little shop keeper I profess to be, I got busy listing. Listed 17 items. Strangely enough most of them were not even looked at, but two of them began pulling in the lookers right away. I was kind of surprised to see that I had 78 views by the time I went to bed. I was amazed when I got up this morning and the new totals were 358 on one and 347 on the other. I just peeked and one is setting at 948 and the other at 957. Less than 24 hours. Since I am a fairly intelligent woman I immediately thought the counter was screwed up. That is until I took a closer look at the titles.
See when you list you are supposed to be very descriptive so people can readily type in a few words and find your item, or one like it. My items are both completely worthless plastic bead necklaces, so I wrote "3 strings of plastic beads worthless to the naked eye as well as to the experienced." Sounds very descriptive and honest to me. But what if I were looking for something else and typed in "worthless, naked, experienced". I would no doubt come up with something else and would be very surprised to find myself looking at plastic beads.
So there you have my lesson for the day in how to attract lookers to your listings on eBay. Now I have had no bids so I am pretty sure that the people purusing my site are not looking for a necklace! Funny the things that come out of our mouths without a thought until some one calls our attention to it.
Just wanted to share that with you.
See when you list you are supposed to be very descriptive so people can readily type in a few words and find your item, or one like it. My items are both completely worthless plastic bead necklaces, so I wrote "3 strings of plastic beads worthless to the naked eye as well as to the experienced." Sounds very descriptive and honest to me. But what if I were looking for something else and typed in "worthless, naked, experienced". I would no doubt come up with something else and would be very surprised to find myself looking at plastic beads.
So there you have my lesson for the day in how to attract lookers to your listings on eBay. Now I have had no bids so I am pretty sure that the people purusing my site are not looking for a necklace! Funny the things that come out of our mouths without a thought until some one calls our attention to it.
Just wanted to share that with you.
