Describing items correctly

[vintagetj59]

I have been noticing lately a lot of sellers do not even describe there items, all they say is '' condition is used'' now how in  the world does anyone expect to sell something just saying that, I have been selling on here 22 years and have never said that, I believe in describing to the T, then if you ask that seller is this item good, work etc, the reply i get most of the time even if i get one, does not help, Ebay just ain't what it once was and that my friends is very sad.😫

[coolections]

There has will always be 4 types of sellers on Ebay. The lazy ones, the ones who leave out info to get more cash, the ones who are not very smart and don't realize how important the descriptions are to buyers, and the ones who know what they are doing. Weed out the bad and keep the good. If they don't answer your questions all you can do is move on to another seller.

[hillbillymedia]

Hasn`t it always been that way? I`ve been buying here for 17 years. If a seller doesn`t provide enough info. for me to be able to make an educated purchase I usually just move on. There are plenty of great sellers on ebay. Is there any other sales site that has a higher caliber of seller or a better MBG? I doubt it.

[woodyscollectibles · Accepted solution]

That my friend is because of the generation coming up behind us. I believe in starting out with the obvious which is always take 12 pictures and then with size and weight. After that a detailed description. I always tell everyone with an Ebay store make sure to use 4 of our 5 senses in your descriptions. Sight-Pictures, Touch-Textures, Smell-Odors, Hearing-Well described item and taste is not one I don't use as I don't sell food. Let the folks be less descriptive. That means they deal with more returns and get bad feedback because of it.  For those of us that strive to describe an item we end up winning cause most folks won't hesitate to buy from a person with perfect feedback. I don't think their ruining anything. I thing their just losing out on sales and have a lower profit margin. The younger generation is way lazier. I moved out when I was 18 and I had my first job at 14. I had all my quarters in by the time I was 27. My 22 year old son lives in my lower level. I have no idea what to do with him. I have a kid in 8th grade and I have told the oldest boy when you graduate next year you must move as I want to buy a new home but one where the extra bedrooms are offices. I will probably leave him in the house I am moving out just to be done with it. It's a big duplex I own and I want to get a condo so I don't have the yard work and maintenance. Me and my wife go round and round about it. Kids today do not want to work. It's crazy. It's the gaming that drives me crazy. What a waste of time and energy. Hope your staying safe and healthy.........Woody

[the*dog*ate*my*tablecloth]

That’s a bit of a generalization don’t you think? How do you know how old these sellers are?

One of my kids is a software engineer. The other is a robotics engineer. They are hard workers, fully employed and live outside the house. Other people their age I know are a vet tech, a mechanical engineer and a biomedical engineer. One I know is doing a Masters in some kind of engineering. I don’t know any people in their age range who are lazy.

SMH

[vintagetj59]

I hear ya Woody, guess it is the younger gen lol, I had perfect feedback for my 22 yrs until recently one of them type dudes, that did not even open what i sent him for 2 months then wanted to lie about it and complain, I learned many years ago to document with before/after pics and put a special mark on my items un-sceen, so when someone dis-honest tries to put 1 on me i have proof to show ebay or who ever needs to see it, I am not perfect by no means, but my descriptions are precise and i have never ripped anyone off and never will, also the feedback to me has nothing to do with how fast i ship, to me its how i describe and my description matches the item, all this seller rating **bleep** does not have anything to do with whom a man is, so sellers don't even say condition is used, hell all they want is 5 star feedback lol, anyway thanks for the reply Woody,,,, Tim

[vintagetj59]

I guess lol

[vintagetj59]

true, I'm not out to get more cash., i'm out to get rid of my stuff lol, my moto use to be 9.99 let it ride, now i am going back to that lol, I have 40 plus years of collecting etc, but I am all alone, never married, no family, nobody to leave anything to and i had the killer disease ''PAD'' and no health insurance, time to get ready to leave as i came, butt naked with nothing lol

[vintagetj59]

well true, i just ask sellers for more info to see if they reply, half the time i'm not even interested in what they have cause i have it to lol, if they do not answer me o'well, the point i was trying to make on this is how they sell anything lol, once a few yrs ago i was complaining here about how china **bleep** was hurting american sellers,well there were a few replies here were these people were all for china **bleep**, well now look what china has done to use 🙂 thanks for the reply, I enjoy hearing opinions

[dhbookds]

Just more "room" for good sellers with good descriptions to make sales.  On some things, frankly, I don't think it matters.......but on others it certainly does.......  I can remember early on, those with pages of paragraphs, mostly of TOS, all different, glaring colors.........I couldn't/wouldn't have read thru all that stuff for anything....and I doubt most did...but they sold.......

All kinds of buyers......to some it matters, to others not........

[vintagetj59]

as far as any other sites with buyers, well yeah, fb market place, i do way better there than here lol, plus most is local cash, but i have several that i ship to using paypal, when ebay finally cuts paypal out and expects us to use google pay with there new policy well i will leave ebay for good, not doing that, that just means u will pay taxes twice, i do not believe in taxing anything used period, now wonder if my 22 yrs here has any retirement benefits lol

[vintagetj59]

also i have been whats considered self employed basically my whole life, my last job was 1984 lol, have no idea what a w2 form looks like lol

[vintagetj59]

I see most y'all replying here have hundreds of items listed, i have never even put but maybe a 100 on at once, I could no way keep up with hundreds, plus everything i list is mine or family i had, I know the history of all i have and for sure want be doing anything breakable lol, been there done that, i'm more into mechanics, i was antiques/collectables here, but soon as i get rid of all i have, well i have no idea what then lol, I can never draw SS, so i have to just save my $$ lol

[m60driver]

Some sellers don't describe and some buyers don't read descriptions that are written.  Such is life in this internet age of functional illiteracy.

[terrycece62]

I agree it is terrible when there is no description I either pass (which is what I do 9 out of 10 times ) on the listing completely or I ask the seller a question
If no answer with in 24 hours I move on
The most irritating listing 4 me is when the seller doesn't provide a picture of the actual item (stock picture used or some other image but not of the sale item) so I do not even have a photo to provide any idea what they r selling those I pass up on immediately VERY SAD INDEED