Tips for selling LR on e-bay please

CRO (the cave rescue organisation for the Three Peaks area of the Yorkshire Dales) are selling one of their Land Rovers. See

formatting link
for details. They plan to put it on e-bay in a week, Can any of you experienced in selling vehicles on e-bay give them some tips, please - post them here and I'll pass them on.

I've sold lots on e-bay, but never a vehicle, and I get the feeling that there's a bit more to it than meets the eye.

Thanks

Nick.

Reply to
Nick Williams
Loading thread data ...

Nick

The page looks pretty good, I'd suggest they transpose that page straight onto eBay! As I'm sure you are aware, you can put HTML code in your eBay description so it could, in effect, look identical to the web page that already exists. General tips - lots of pictures, and a decent description get the top price, both of which that page seem to have already!

Matt.

Reply to
Matthew Maddock

Hi Nick, nice clean looking 110. Wish I could buy it myself, but one's enough. Agree with previous post; the info you have on the dalesbridge web-site is good; I think people like good photos and lots of detail. So list all the extras they've spent money on and maintenance done (main dealer service record?).

Tried cross-posting to uk.rec.caving? It doesn't get a lot of posts but I think there are a lot of lurkers, some of whom are into land rovers... Worth when you put the auction up posting the link to it on there and on here (alt.fan.landrover).

Anyway, I hope they get a good price for it and have an easy sale.

Cheers,

M.

(PS, didn't know you were into L/Rs - the last time I saw you (if you are the Nick Williams I think you are) you had an escort van... )

Reply to
McBad

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:21:47 +0000, McBad wrote (in article ):

I'll pass that on.

u.r.c. seems to have been almost completely supplanted by ukcaving.com, and it has been posted there, so I suspect that pretty well all the internet savvy cavers will have seen it. Anyway, I reckon CRO will get a better price if they sell it to a non-caver!

I am that Nick Williams. The Escort finally died after 296k miles, and now I'm permanently installed in the Peak District and no longer doing 48k miles a year at weekends, replacing it with a scruffy LR has worked out well.

Am I right in thinking you're one of the GSG's few Cardiff based members?

Nick.

Reply to
Nick Williams

A general point on posting links: keep is short, but don't assume that people will want to click on the link to find out what's going on. And remember that Usenet posts can linger for years in some archive or another.

So, brief description, give the closing date of the auction, and consider posting a report when the sale is made, as a follow-up.

Reply to
David G. Bell

You are correct. Next time I'm in the Peak District maybe I'll drop by for a caving / land rovering / cup of tea half hour.

All the best,

M.

Reply to
McBad

Another thought, that would surely be an ideal vehicle for an LPG conversion, with all that space a V8 and loads of life left in the rest of the structure. Might be a thought worth mentioning in the description.

Cheers,

M
Reply to
McBad

I advertised on the 4X4 site and was amazed at the number of obvious scammers who replied wanting to buy.

Is this also a problem on Ebay and what do you do with them?

Derry

Reply to
Derry Argue

I'm in Australia, and sold a landcruiser on Ebay to a bloke in Texas. That sale eventually fell through, but within 5 minutes i had sold it again to a bloke in California. so you are absolutely right, there are some people out there willing to pay a shitload of money for something that they have never seen. BTW, the landcruiser was a bit of a heap.

Sam.

Reply to
Samuel

My only problem with sales to the good ole USA is that 50% of the people, no make that 95% dont understand that US dollars are not legal tender in Australia. I've had everything from US personal cheques to US dollar bank notes. Strangly no other country offers to pay me in Euros, Pounds, Roubles or peanuts.

Reply to
Roger & Lorraine Martin

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 20:29:03 +0000, Nick Williams wrote (in article ):

For any one interested the auction went live tonight:

formatting link
Bid often, bid early and bid high, please - it's for a good cause!

Nick.

Reply to
Nick Williams

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 22:33:27 +0000, Nick Williams scribbled the following nonsense:

Listing unavailable....

Reply to
Simon Isaacs

On or around Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:04:00 +0000 (UTC), Simon Isaacs enlightened us thusly:

same here.

Reply to
Austin Shackles

Same here too ..... but then I almost always have that problem when someone uses the "tinyurl.com" or "makeashorterlink" doo-da rather than posting the actual link itself.

Steve

Reply to
Steve

I'm sure there is a better way of posting a link but if you copy the below into your browser it takes you to the CRO 110.

formatting link
Nice.

M
Reply to
McBad

formatting link
612487728QQcategoryZ29748QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem>

Sorry, I tested that before posting but it's not working for me now. Need to get the whole string into the goto window of the browser and now it's just taking the section ending Z4, which doesn't work.

However, if you go to the Land Rover section of E-Bay and look under 110s the vehicle is certainly there.

Perhaps someone who is more internet savvy will be along shortly and tell me how to post this sort of link properly!

Cheers,

M.

Reply to
McBad

On or around Sat, 11 Feb 2006 07:20:56 -0000, "McBad" enlightened us thusly:

different item number.

formatting link
works.

However, for posting ebay item links, you only need the actual item number:

formatting link
which won't wrap in any sensible line-length

The way I do it is I have a bookmark for the link above as far as the = sign. If you click that, you get "invalid item", but you can then paste the item number (which you previously, and cunningly, copied from the page, top right-ish) onto the end of it in your browser address bar, then copy the whole thing and robert's yer father's brother.

Reply to
Austin Shackles

On or around Sat, 11 Feb 2006 00:09:43 +0000 (UTC), "Steve" enlightened us thusly:

aha. I see it all now:

"Please note that this vehicle has been re listed. Original listing was removed by Ebay due to original photographs showing vehicle still with Cave/Mountain Rescue graphics although text made it clear that these had been removed. Vehicle is exactly the same as previously listing but with new photographs."

Hence the out-of-date tinyURL.

Reply to
Austin Shackles

On or around Sat, 11 Feb 2006 07:29:07 -0000, "McBad" enlightened us thusly:

already done :-)

Reply to
Austin Shackles

MotorsForum website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.