What is with all of the foolish questions from prospective bidders lately? | Selling

electrola_man · 2023-06-26T14:00:42.357000Z

I've been shocked at the increase in questions that are clearly answered in my listings lately. Has something changed? I recently listed an item, declared, "For parts or not working," and described how it was functional but beat up with details as to specific damage, and noted that it was declared "for parts or not working" and sold as-is. Photos showed it looking beat up. I got a question asking, "is this in perfect condition" (no punctuation, from a zero-feedback person). How can that be? I've seen that descriptions don't show up on the phone app unless I click on something. I almost never buy on my phone, but I know a lot of people do. Are there lots of people out there who don't even look at descriptions and condition statements? I sometimes waste some characters in my title field by adding, "PLEASE READ." Sometimes that seems to help.

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