Selling my Tivo Series 1

[yesthattom]

Ack! I've had my Tivo series 2 for months and I'm just getting around to selling off my Series 1.

My first time selling something on eBay. I can't believe it took me an hour to enter all this information.

Any suggestions about my advert? Tell me soon. I can only make changes up to when the first bid!

Comments

[bunnygoth.livejournal.com]

*giggle* I like your ending (Outbid that loser!) You do a good job selling it.

Two teensy things - in the description you say $14.99 for shipping; it says $19.99 elsewhere. Also a typo in the first paragraph - it says "What" instead of "Watch".

Other than that...nice job :)

- daughter of an ebay salesman.

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I've known about eBay since before most people did but I've never gotten around to selling anything. I have tons of stuff in my basement that I want to get rid of. I should have done this earlier.

[dieppe.livejournal.com]

I love my Tivo Series 2.. and Tivo2go!

Anyway.. about the only thing I could think of is you might not want to include tv shows on there. Possible copyright issues? (If you sold blank tapes that happened to have shows on them would that be the same thing?)

I dunno. Personally I'd run the "reset Tivo to original state" mode, and see it as "Just as fresh as the day the box was opened" or something. I mean the flip side of including videos on the Tivo is the buyer might not want to hassle with wiping what's on there so they can start fresh.

The other thing is, and pardon my ignorance, but I don't know if Tivo keeps its idea of what you like based on the machine, or on whether it's a new account. They might want to start over with a fresh Tivo that doesn't have any preconceived ideas of what they want to watch.

Other than that you may want to strongly push the lifetime subscription angle. The fact that they don't have to pay $12.95 per month for the Tivo subscription should be a huge selling point. Do the math as to how much they are saving by buying yours rather than a new Tivo and starting with $12.95 per month..

Good luck! :)

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Copyright issues raised by someone using the Planet P Project Pink World album cover art?

Surely you jest! ;)

(I really just wanted to say that I actually like that particular image, and album.)

[dieppe.livejournal.com]

Actually you're only the second person to notice what it's from... :) I loved that album.. still do actually!


Of course I jest... only mentioning it because ya never know where the MPAA might pop out of next. :)

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

I've made some updates based on your suggestions. Thanks!

[the-nibbler609.livejournal.com]

Being a picky copywriter, I found a few spelling errors and a sentence I didn't understand "What a show when you want" - Watch, you meant?

In my world spelling counts... Other than that, it's concise, to the point. You may getinto trouble with e-bay saying it's totally hackable.
Anybody who's going to buy it, probably knows it already. Kinda like calling a water pipe a bong...

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

Fixed. Thanks!

Personally

[mrfantasy.livejournal.com]

I love it when people use L@@K!!! a lot. . .

Re: Personally

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

*ROTFL*

[dieppe.livejournal.com]

(Oh yeah and what's so crappy about the Series 2 remote???)

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

Its a couple inches longer. Usually that's a good thing, but not with remotes.

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I noticed the "What a show when you..." sentence as well. Also a disturbing lack of commas in some places. Other than that, it's not too bad. Not sure it'd cause me to bid on it. Of course, you don't have the original box and all the cables and manuals that came with it, so that's usually a deal-breaker for me personally.

[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

I have my series 2 box. Is that good enough?
(and can include the extra cables from that)

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not actually in the market for a series 1 TiVo, so not for me. But you asked for a review of your ad, and that's one of the things I look for when purchasing.

[madbodger.livejournal.com]

For commodity items (i.e. items that are offered by more than one seller), I generally
don't bid on reserve price auctions.