[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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