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[quote=goodsailing]Lets use the simple item first:

Used soccer ball for sale $2

Buyer writes:
Is it still available?

Seller: Yes

Buyer: 
When can I come and buy it?

Seller: 
You can come any time

Buyer: 
How about Friday night

Seller:
Gosh, wife just told me we're going out to dinner Friday.
Can you come Saturday

Buyer:
Can't come Saturday. How about Sunday.

Seller: 
Yea Sunday is OK. What time can you be here.

Buyer: I can come after 12.

Seller: What time after 12

Buyer: Around 2

Seller: OK

Buyer: what is your address

Seller

1213 Oak Street 
Bethesda MD

Buyer: What is your cell number

Seller:

212 234 4567

Seller 
What is your phone number?

48 hours pass and you never get a response from buyer.

End of conversation, buyer never provides any info whatsoever yet you spent your time giving him all your info.

Times this by 7 or 8 prospects. For a two dollar item. For the time you spent  typing you might as well put the ball in the trash.

Callers = buyers. Talking to a real buyer saves sooooo much time.

Sorry: way too much typing for me for some who fell off the face.

My ad:
Soccer ball $2
You want it, call me.
Phone.. etc.

For the 6 boats I've sold recently I got about 7 or 8 calls. For the H18 I just sold I got one call and he came and got it the next day from 400 miles away.  I got 4 or 5 emails on this boat, not from the guy who called and bought the boat. I never responded to the emailers and they never called. Hence, the guys who didn't call, where not buyers or simply lost getting a good boat, because they didn't call. I suspect the former. Not buyers. 
Why chit chat via email with a non buyer? He could be a 12 year old kid and has not yet told his dad he's out buying a boat, for god sakes.

Requiring phone is a good qualifier that eliminates non buyers, the emailers and texters IMHO. Try it for you next sale.[/quote]

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