Interesting sales tactic

[molan]

This is actually a rather nice Alembic but it's been advertised previously at the same price and not had a single bid on it.

The seller's latest tactic is to use the following as his complete description:

[i]"AMEMBIC BASS FOR SALE 5STRING, IN AS NEW CONDITION, THIS IS THE LAST TIME I ADVERTISE"[/i]

[Delberthot]

I've done that in the past if there's something I'm selling and I want to give all the watchers a kick up the @r$e to actually bid instead of watching and doing nothing or stop watching if they've no intension of bidding.

I did it with my trace V-type combo cos if it hadn't sold for the second time, I was going to take the amp out and making a sleeve for it to use with my 8x10"

I did it with my 2-tone sunburst '51 reissue precision as I really didn;t want to sell it so I thought that if I was going to sell it then I'll sell it with a silly BIN price and added that I would keep it if it didn;t sell - sold within 6 hours.

Edited January 24, 2010 by Delberthot

[Happy Jack]

[quote name='molan' post='722645' date='Jan 23 2010, 09:56 PM']This is actually a rather nice Alembic but it's been advertised previously at the same price and not had a single bid on it.

The seller's latest tactic is to use the following as his complete description:

[i]"AMEMBIC BASS FOR SALE 5STRING, IN AS NEW CONDITION, THIS IS THE LAST TIME I ADVERTISE"[/i][/quote]


I can't imagine why a keen bass player's search string would fail to include AMEMBIC ...

[yorick]

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='724121' date='Jan 25 2010, 02:49 PM']I can't imagine why a keen bass player's search string would fail to include AMEMBIC ...

[/quote]

I think he miss-spelled it.... i think it should have been AMOEBIC.