Trying to sell my 2003 Denali, not easy.

[OneTwo]

Adding keywords is a good idea. One other thing that has helped me out recently is designing the ad for the audience, and let's be honest, there are a LOT of idiots on Craigslist. However annoying they may be, those idiots often have cash, and they do not want to read through long ads to find a phone number.

I used to a write a long, thorough ad with price and contact info at the bottom and got no bites. Now, I write a short paragraph at the top in typical Craigslist fashion, post price and contact info, then dive in to the details afterwards.

Ex:

"2003 GMC Yukon Denali. 200,000 miles. Clean title in hand. Good cosmetic shape. Reliable runner driver. Needs a few things to be perfect. $5,000 OBO. Text Matt 541-***-XXXX. See full details below:

[Features, mod list, recent repairs/maintenance, needed repairs (always last, give them a chance to fall in love with it before you tell them the bad parts)]

[keywords] GMC GM Chevrolet Chevy Tahoe Suburban Yukon XL Denali Escalade SUV 8 eight passenger seats [etc.]"

 

[nharkey85]

Privacy

How is Craigslist private and TYF not?

 

[fiatdale]

Not trying to bash, because I'm legitimately interested in this thing for that kind of money, but this guy has even said hes trying to get his post count up so he can start selling stuff on here - how is that too being anonymous and not private? Just post the link, or somethings fishy about you.

 

[Rocket Man]

I call BS on this whole thing. If you say you want to sell it then you'd have posted a link by now. You won't even give your name ("Denali"...really.) Or where you live ("Cyberspace"). I mean, exactly what are you supposedly afraid of? Like someone's going to magically somehow find where you live and , what, steal your truck with 200,000 miles on it? WTF??? I don't care any more. Put the pipe down dude. Unsubscribed.

 

[fiatdale]

Yes, Disappointed in this as well. I'm interested in this thing and cash in hand - yet he cant show me a Craigslist ad which keeps your name, address, and phone number anonymous unless you tell it to do so.

 

[Arthur Vandalay]

So you come on here complaining about no response to your online ad, then we actually ASK TO SEE the ad, which means we're interested, and you think showing it to us would somehow invade privacy? Are the thousands of people viewing your local CL invading your privacy?

Then you say nobody will drive 10 hours for it, well, you aren't 10 hours from EVERYONE! With no location listed, you could be at the top of my street and I wouldn't know it.

This is kinda like the people who blur out their plates in pics - but seem to forget the fact that 5,000 strangers can read your plates just on the drive to work LOL