My biggest Failure in Advertising...So Far

This is another guitar I was supposed to sell for someone, where I had never seen the guitar before hand, and didn't know anything about them. I think that when selling something, everyone is going to look it up anyway, so who cares if I describe the generic stats correctly? If I write it has 7 strings, and it only has 6, people won't care. Except I guess Epiphone lovers. But eff those guys.

Again, I went for a more artistic approach to the graphics.

The ad kinda sucked, so maybe that is why nobody bought the guitar. I had written like 3 other musical instrument ads within that week or two, so I was kinda burned out. How many different things can you say about a guitar? I don't know, and I don't care. But the correct answer is about "like 3 other ads" worth. I guess I got greedy. But not that greedy, since I don't actually charge to write the ads. I keep looking around my room for things to sell, because I like writing ads the most. I've even considered replying to a boring Kijiji ad, getting their email, and writing an ad for them. If they want it, they can activate the ad, and if not, whatever. It seems like it would be a fun idea anyway.

Up for grabs is 1 astounding electric guitar. It is, to the best of my knowledge, an Epiphone SG G310. If it isn’t, then it’s probably not much different from a G310. According to people who have played neither, like the Epiphone P.R. people on their website, this guitar is very close to a Gibson SG in sound and feel, and every other way except price. I think they might be biased. People who shelled out extra money for a Gibson are probably offended by this claim. This Epiphone SG isn’t as high end as the Gibson SG, but it’s also 1/4 of the price. With that in mind, this is an incredible guitar. If you’re just starting out, or you’ve played for a few years, or you are thinking of buying a guitar that says “Squier” on it, this is the guitar for you.

 

Everything on the guitar is black, except for the things that aren’t. It’s got a chrome bridge, chrome Grover tuners, and a chrome pickup switch. The guitar has that classic symmetrical double cutaway style that revolutionized guitar styling in the 60’s. That’s also the look that ruined that cool thing left handed players had going on when they flipped a right handed guitar over. I guess you can’t win em all. The guitar is in good shape, except for a crack in the finish on the side of the neck. It doesn’t affect playability, and barely affects the looks, since it’s near the fret board.

 

The two open coil humbuckers make this guitar more versatile than a Strat and a Les Paul taped together. Seriously, if I had a nickel for every tone this guitar could come up with, I wouldn’t have to sell it. It would be irresponsible of me to say that buying this guitar will make you the next big thing in the guitar world. You’ll still have to practice for like a week first.

 

This guitar really lives up to the SG name, which, according to Gibson, stands for Solid Guitar. That story checks out. This guitar will take all the abuse you can throw at it, and the only thing it will do in return, besides sound awesome, is get a chip on the neck apparently.

 

You might be asking “Why would anyone want to sell a guitar that is this amazing?”, and that’s a very good question. The thing is, I have too many SGs, and this one has to go. You’re not going to find a better guitar for the measly 150 bucks I’m asking. I would also consider trade offers involving a Marshall 4x12 cab. Please refer to the crayon drawings to see what this thing looks like.

 

If you’re the guy who keeps emailing me trying to offer a “rare” Tiger Woods photo, this is the guitar for you. Even your weekly allowance can afford this spectacular deal! I will not trade this guitar for a picture though. That’s just stupid. I will, however, trade the actual drawing of this guitar for your photo of Tiger Woods, and will even get my picture signed by the artist (Garet, age 27) for an extra $50.  You may choose either the drawing of the guitar, or the closeup drawing of the chipped paint near the headstock.

 

Pay close attention: If your trade offer for this guitar doesn’t involve a Marshall 4x12, I am not interested! 

Again, I had to stress the "No Tiger Woods" shit stuff, because that idiot kept emailing my friend. Nobody wanted a rare picture of Tiger Woods ever. I guess nobody wanted some black Epi SG either.

When I reread this one, I don't even see any jokes that I'm particularly proud of. You know what writing doesn't have jokes? The dictionary. And that is boring as shit. I guess the part about the PR people on the Epiphone website was alright. I have no problems making fun of strangers who will never know. That's a victimless crime.

My favourite part, and the most artistic part, was that I drew the guitar in crayon, put the picture on the fridge, and took a picture to post on Kijiji. Nobody wanted to buy my pictures yet, so I am not really a professional artist. Oh well. Once they sell, next stop is the Louvre. 

Who Needs a Fender Twin Reverb ii? Not This Guy!

Since I've decided to keep this blog, I figure I can post another non-update. I keep selling things, so it really means I can keep posting things and you people will get to keep reading things without me having to write new things specifically for this blog. Everybody wins, I think.

This is another piece of "commission" work I've done for a Kijiji ad. I use the quotes, because I didn't actually get paid for it, so that's not the right word. It was a favor for a friend really. Though he gave me these sweet Lemmy bass picks one time, so I consider these ads to be working off that debt.

I write ads, and I always have like three things in my mind...The first is that it doesn't really matter how I describe it, since if someone is going to buy something big, they are going to Google it. The second is that it doesn't matter what kind of picture I upload, because again they will Google it. Plus I've described the condition honestly, as best as I could. The last is that I should include a Hulk reference or make fun of photographers somehow. Not like legit real photographers. More the people who take weird angled shots and make them black and white, and post them on my FB feed. Now you know my secret.

I think I wrote this one on break at work. I don't know anything about these amps, so I Googled some basic facts. I looked at a picture, and that was about all I needed.

Now onto the magic...

For sale is 1 hard to find Fender Twin Reverb II. These amps are being snatched up by collectors because of the excellent amp design by none other than Paul Rivera, who, fun fact, also designed the Buick Riviera. This amp has the classic black and silver look that most Fender amps have had for decades. They call it Blackface era cosmetics, according to Wikipedia…but that can’t be right, can it? For starters, it has a silver face. Secondly, I think “blackface” means something else already.

The Twin Reverb II packs an Incredible Hulk-like punch with its 105 watts of tube power. It also weighs about as much as The Blob (from X-men, though I imagine the movie monster wasn’t a spring chicken either), since it’s a tube amp. This amp goes to 11, and then some. Though I think if you look at the knob, it says 10. Don’t listen to those lying knobs. This amp is LOUD. Not just sort of loud. This is “you will get noise complaints from different area codes” loud. The volume on this will get you evicted from apartments you don’t even live in. 

 

This amp is about 30 years old, and it’s in good shape for the age. Since this was built, the wheel was invented, so some casters have been added to the bottom. Technically it’s an aftermarket upgrade, but your arm will thank you. I’m not sure why they would make an amp that is this close to collapsing in on itself as a black hole, and only put a single handle on top. I’m no Fengineer, but I’d have at least put 2 handles on top. The rest of the amp seems to be all original. 

 

There are 2 channels on this amp, which is about as many as there were on tv when it was made. The clean channel is your typical clean Fender sound. That’s the clean sound every other amp maker wishes they could have. The other channel is a overdrive/reverb channel which has limited applications. If you’re going to be a classic rock cover band, then you could just plug into the dirty channel and be set. But come on, this is a Fender. You put your effects through the clean channel anyway, and also don’t play in a classic rock cover band. There are all sorts of E.Q. knobs on here, so you can set your sound however you want, so long as you want the treble, mid and bass between 0 and 10. It also has a knob for reverb, some volume knobs, a gain knob, and even a presence knob. The presence knob adjusts how prominent, or present (get it?) the reverb is.

I have included an MS Paint rendition of this amp. It should give you a good idea of what the amp would look like, if it were poorly drawn in MS Paint. In that respect, it’s basically photorealistic. I am getting rid of this great amp, because I got a Marshall head that needs a cab. I will consider trades for a 4x12 Marshall cab, or something substantially similar, or a trade for $650 worth of Canadian currency.

If you are that kid who keeps offering to trade a rare picture of Tiger Woods for whatever gear I’m selling, the answer is still no.  It will always be no, regardless of how many times you offer. I do, however, have a special offer for you. I’ll trade your photo of Tiger Woods for a copy of the MS Paint representation of this amp. If you throw in another $50, I will get the artist (Garet, age 27) to sign it for you. For another measly $25, I’ll even ask him to make sure he uses a colour printer. You won’t get any musical gear out of that deal, but you will get a collectible piece of music memorabilia. Plus Garet insists he will be famous for his art one day, so the value can only go up.

Pay careful attention to this part: Marshall 4x12 cabinets and photos of Tiger Woods ARE NOT the same thing. If you are having trouble telling the difference between Marshall 4x12 cabinets and photos of Tiger Woods, maybe guitar isn’t for you. Use the rule of thumb: offering Marshall 4x12 cabinets for trade will get you closer to owning this amp; offering photos of Tiger Woods will not.

This ad is one of the better ones I have done, because it got Fender aficionados mad. They didn't like the part about "black face". I did, so I put it in there. Yet what is weird is that not a single person called me on the part where I said "Paul Rivera designed the Buick Riveria". Also anything about the age, volume or weight is pure gold as far as I'm concerned.

The picture does sort of suck though. I dropped the ball there. Notice how I put my name and age on there though. What's the point of drawing pictures if you can't sign them? I don't want to find out.

The Tiger Woods stuff is because some kid kept offering to trade rare Tiger Woods photos for guitars. It is also a pretty good rule of thumb.

I know the money part is the totally boring part...but I'm pretty sure he got full asking price for it.

For Sold: 1 Gretsch Electromatic

Another update that's barely anything original for those of you who read my Facebook, or who I send Kijiji ads to, or guys I write ads for, or basically anyone else who will read this. It's not that I don't write anymore, even though this blog is as barren as my sex life, it's just that I haven't had much of a chance to log onto the ol blog and post an update. I bet the next few posts will just be Kijiji ad related, since I've got a lot of stuff on the go, and it's hard to write.

I'd like to think my writing helped sell this guitar, which has an awesome 50's futuristic name...the Electromatic. My friend had it for sale for a while with no luck. Then I wrote this not so good ad, and it sold pretty quickly. Sure, someone who isn't an idiot could say that my ad may have had nothing to do with it. But I'm an idiot. So I sold the guitar. That makes me an advertising genius, but also still an idiot. The ad still sucks though. Why would I post an ad that I think is a piece of garbage you ask? Because it still ups my word count. And at the end of the day, isn't that all that really matters? So, let's go!

For sale is one amazing Gretsch Electromatic Duo Jet guitar. This guitar is perfect for takin’ care of business, or rockin this town. Though it’s not a true hollow body guitar, it has a chambered body that fakes that kind of sound. I guess it’s not faking if it can do that sound…is it?

This silver finished guitar is in great condition. The flashy color and double cutaway body shape will be sure to hide your inability to play guitar, so it’s perfect for beginners and veterans alike. I think Gretsch only had 4 words in mind when they designed this guitar: six string sex appeal. If you bring a shiny silver guitar on stage, it doesn’t really matter what you play. The same can be said for fuzzy guitars. This Electromatic looks great, even though it’s got a few dings and scratches on it. Though it’s nothing out of the ordinary for an instrument that’s been gigged a few times.

Included, at no extra charge, are the two pickups this guitar came with, one in the neck and 1 in bridge position. The pickups are mini-humbuckers, whatever that means. These two pickups, in combination with some clever fiddling with the tone and volume knobs, will make it a great guitar to play everything from ABBA to ZZ Top. I mostly play Men Without Hats and Rick Astley on it, and I know this guitar is never gonna give you up.

So, not only is this a fine Gretsch guitar straight from the factory, but it also has an important upgrade. Have you ever seen someone do that move where they spin the guitar around their neck? Well, I learned the hard way that the secret there is strap locks. This Gretsch has some Dunlop strap locks on it, so you too can spin it around. And, let’s face it, if you have a shiny silver guitar that you spin around your neck, you don’t need to learn anything but an E, an A, and a B power chord.

I know that you’re all wondering why anyone would want to sell such an amazing piece of equipment. That’s an excellent question. Well, I’ll tell you. I have far too many guitars and not enough arms. I need to liquidate some gear, so the only trade I’d consider must have the words “Marshall” and “4x12” in it. Plus, it would be a waste to just play Motorhead and Ramones with The Graveyard Ducks on this guitar.

Email me for some pretty well done MS Paint renditions of this guitar. Also I guess I could take pictures…but that doesn’t seem very fun.

I first want to say that I think it's rather low to just namedrop so many bands. Plus the Stray Cats and BTO probably used hollow body guitars, for all I care. Pop culture references are for the Big Bang Theory level humor, and they're not really my bag. I'm above that shit. I did want to namedrop The Graveyard Ducks, though, because I thought this ad was going to go up on the work buy and sell. It has been my goal to break every posting rule they have, and I'm getting there. On that bass guitar ad, I posted a link so everyone could hear what it sounds like go to the LS bandcamp page. Take that you not very rigid rules at work. I'm an anarchist!

I did really break a guitar trying to spin it. The less I say about that part, the better.

I totally cheated on the picture, and just drew over a real picture of a Gretsch. I can't draw guitars freehand, and I'm not going to learn anytime soon.

Yeah, I guess you don't know what a The Graveyard Ducks is. I'll explain that later.

One of those non-updates

You can expect a few of these coming up soon, and any regulars (idiots) will have read it already.

I had this bass guitar sitting at home, and I no longer wanted it. Well, I have like 4 of them, and I don't really want most of them either. They're all made in China or somewhere with equally bad quality control. Some jerks make fun of where my basses are made, instead of how poorly I play them. To remedy my too many bass situation, I decided to sell one. Well, actually I was bored on break at work and decided to write an ad for it, then I decided to sell it. I sometimes write ads without intentions of selling things, just because I'm bored. I have an ad for my car mostly written, and maybe I'll post it here, since I'm not actually going to sell it. Well, actually I'd sell it in a heartbeat. I guess nobody is going to buy it is what I mean.

Have you ever wanted to play guitar in a band, but all of your friends are already guitarists? Well, here's your chance to settle on being a bassist instead.

This bass is in somewhere between "awesome" and "rad" condition. Actually, I'm a little embarrassed that for playing in a punk band for a couple years, it's not beat up whatsoever. I think I should have smashed two of them by now. I don't even think the back of it, the part that nobody will look at or see, is really scratched up or dented. There is one little white blemish under the finish. I put a Transistor 66 sticker over it, and it solved the problem.

The bass was made in Indonesia, which as far as I know, is a step up from China as far as bass production goes. It's no America or Japan, but some people say it's on par with Mexico. Take that for what you will. You can find out more about these countries on a map. The internet ranted and raved about this bass like it was a cheap Fender for the price of an expensive Squier. I think that is entirely accurate.

It has a wood-coloured neck, with a different coloured wood-coloured body. The fret board is maple, and has those nice big rectangular fret inlays. Being a jazz bass, it bass a jazz bass body and a jazz neck. There is a black pick guard, which is weird because I've been told that "real" bass players don't use picks. So why is there a black pick guard there? I assume that with a stellar description like this, no picture is necessary. But still, I can email you some tastefully artistic nude pictures of it, if you want.

This bass has never had any Rush played on it. I don't know about you, but that seems like a pretty strong selling feature to me. I do distinctly remember playing Guns N Roses on it once...so there's that. Since I basically only play punk music, the D and G strings are in like new condition. One time I broke the E string, so the strings have been replaced within the last year or so. I don't play this one much anymore.

To hear it in action, check out a few tracks at lessexy.bandcamp.com. This stuff was recorded through a direct input, so you can get a feel for the sound of the bass itself. It's got a couple Duncan jazz pickups, with a separate volume knob for each.

As an added bonus, I will throw in a hard case. This case looks like it barely survived a Godzilla attack. I believe it is held together mostly by duct tape and good intentions.

My reason for selling it is that I can barely play 1 bass at a time, and I have 4 of them. That just seems like poor planning on my part. Plus this one was a gift from an ex, so her loss is your gain! Since this has whatever the opposite of "sentimental value" is, you can get it for a mere 175 bucks.

I don't see a bass with a description like this lasting too long at what I assume is a reasonable price. Call, text or email me and it can be yours.

When I tried posting this rather innocuous ad at work, they sent me back an email saying it was inappropriate for work. Being the genius I am, I knew right away what was wrong with it, and took out the part about where it was made, and the part about tasteful nudes. They accepted it right away.

I don't want to say I'm a big deal around the buy and sell at work, mainly because that is not something worth being proud of, but this one got me a lot of comments from strangers. People who I don't even know stopped me and said stuff like "The ad alone made me almost want to buy the bass". What a stupid thing to say to someone. The fact is, these people didn't buy it.

I also posted it to kijiji later that day, uncensored, and sold it within 5 minutes of posting, for asking price. How often does that happen? Never, I think.

I am rather proud of the pictures though. My camera doesn't have the sexiest filter, black and white, nor does it have the teenaged-girl-amateur-photographer-filter, sepia, so I made due with regular pictures. I changed the contrast after, and the results are quite erotic. I got a boner just looking at them.

 

Other Shit I Sold

 This is another one of those posts that doesn't really count, since I'm just reposting something I wrote somewhere else at some other point in time. To be fair, I did have to completely re-type this. If you work with me, you probably saw this one already. I thought it was pretty funny.

It's a 1976 Kaplan pop up tent trailer, according to the insurance slip. My brother think's it's a Jayco, but he's probably wrong. It is roughly 8 feet by 6.5 feet when folded. This thing is so light that you could probably pull it with a bike. When set up, it has a roughly 4 foot by 6 foot bed on each side, and an 8 foot by 6.5 foot middle area. When you math those numbers together, it works out to over 90 square feet of trailer!

The canvas has seen better days, which I guess was like 30 years ago. It has a few tears and holes. I just threw a tarp over it. Problem solved. When the trailer is folded up, it doesn't let any water in. The tires hold air, and have less than 1000 kms on them. The axle also turns freely. It has a spare tire, which is just a good idea.

This trailer is simple to set up. Just pull down the stand on each corner to stabilize the trailer. Then you have to manually push up the roof. It's not the kind that has a crank. That takes all the fun out of it. The roof is held up by 4 folding poles that lock into place. Then you put the door in place, pull out the 2 beds and lock them into place, and suddenly you have a swinging trailer. It is super easy to set up.

It's a basic tent trailer, with 2 beds, a sink in the middle, a few cupboards and storage areas, and a table that connects to the outside of the trailer. I have never used the sink, so I'm not entirely sure it works when you hook it up to a water supply. The mystery is part of the fun! It also has a propane hook-up on the front, but I'm pretty sure there isn't a stove in there. I guess the propane connection is more of a decoration.

The trailer sleeps 4, but I bet if you try, you could sleep like 12 people in there. The beds have all sorts of cushions to simulate the experience of sleeping on a piece of plywood with thin cushions on it. How they pulled that one off with 70's technology, I'll never know.

Email me, at garetseman@hotmail.com, for some pictures, which I have taken at weird angles using the sepia filter on my cell phone. That makes them artistic. I can take black and white out of focus pictures as well, upon request. Or call me whenever at 990-4278, if you want to check it out.

All of this can be yours for a mere 400 dollars! I will consider any reasonable offer, and consider many offers reasonable. I would also consider a straight up trade for a utility trailer. Act fast and I will throw in a block of wood to prop the trailer up with! 

I really like the pictures, even if I don't actually know how to take out of focus pictures with my camera. I never claimed to be a photographer, because I don't have an instagram account. As with most examples of photographic art, these pictures are totally useless, and when criticized as such, I can claim "you just don't get my art", as if looking at pictures requires years of study.

 When I was outside taking these pictures, the Google streetview van passed. Maybe one day this shitty trailer will be on there too.

Cadillac Eldorado

I was going to sell my car via the work Buy and Sell. One of my usual forums for mental retardation thinly disguised as an ad.

What do Elvis, The Ghost Busters, that guy from ZZ Top with the beard, Boss Hog, and every popular rapper sinze 1999 have in common? They all drive a Cadillac. Now you too can join this elite club by buying my 1993 Cadillac Eldorado (ETC) coup. The car is in good shape, especially for a 20 year old car. It's an uncommon car, and honestly I don't want to get rid of it.


The car has a 300 horsepower, 32 valve DOHC 4.6 litre Northstar engine. It has a 4 speed automatic transmission, so you can't sit at red lights and roll back and forth to show the world that you drive a manual. Sorry kids. It has power doors, locks, seats, windows and a sunroof. It has heated leather seats in the front. It has the standard 16 inch rims. The little back quarter windows and the rear window are tinted, and are super dark. The body is in good shape, and it's not rusting out. As far as I can tell, the car hasn't been in any major accidents. All of the body panels are straight, and there are no glaring indicators of anything being rebuilt or replaced. I drove it through that week of winter we had, and it did just fine on the ice, even on all-season tires.


There are a couple problems with the car as well, though nothing major. The ball joints will need to be replaced soon. The heater control has an electrical glitch, which has me stumped. Some of the paint is yellowing. It's mostly happening around the rear passenger side of the car. That's a real shame since pearl white is the Cadillac of paint colors. The automatic leveling system was removed by a previous owner, so when you turn this car off, it doesn't make that buzzing sound that 90's Cadillacs made after they were shut off. Also, the button that opens the gas door only works sometimes, so you may have to open it manually. 


The car was safetied in January of February of this year. Either way, this safety is so fresh that it's still warm.


Now, this power and torque comes at a price. As you might have guessed, this car isn't exactly a fuel sipper. This thing chugs fuel like it's going out of style. If your daily driver is some kind of tank or bus, this will seem like a hybrid. The thing is, nobody who owns a Cadillac worries about fuel economy.


I really don't want to get rid of this car...but I need to buy a truck. I'd like to get 2100 for the car, but I'm open to offers. With a couple bucks, this could be a great summer cruiser, or even just a year round daily driver. It's totally driveable as it is right now, and I drive it basically everywhere I can all the time, since it's such a rad car. Call me at 990-4278 to check it out.

I didn't even have a chance to post it, because my car sold astonishingly quickly. I didn't think this ad was among my better work, much like every blog entry before the current one, so I'm not too hung up that I never actually got to post it. I can post something I've already written, and it still counts as a new blog entry. How awesome is that? I didn't even have to work today to put something up here. And really, isn't laziness the difference between a blogger and a real writer?

Still Ineffective at Marketing

One day at work I decided to put up an ad on the work buy and sell for my moped. I don't ride it much, and won't be able to ride it soon enough, so I thought someone else could benefit. Now the problem is that I couldn't write an ad like a normal person. I did have some special consultation help on this one, and can guarantee it would not be the same without that help. On the other hand, this version also does not contain the phrase "sex machine". For my money, it's a wash.

Have you ever wanted the benefits and freedom of riding a scooter without the embarrassment of riding a scooter? This is just the machine for you. It's a red and white 1969 Honda PC50 moped. That's mo(tor)ped(al), as in it can be used as a really slow motorbike, or a really heavy bicycle. There's a reason scooters are faster than this PC50: nobody wants to be seen on a scooter.

This red rocket is in good running condition. Almost everything works as it's supposed to, and the things that didn't work were taken off and thrown out. Who really needs an air filter anyway, right? The headlight needs a new bulb, and the speedometer and odometer don't work. Since it tops out around 50 km/hr,  you don't really need to worry about your speed. It has an astonishingly powerful 50cc 4 stroke engine that puts out an earth shattering 1.8 hp. That's almost half as much as your lawnmower! So you don't even need to worry about 2-stroke oil. Just put in the 3 dollars of gas and drive it for 100 kms or more. You can't beat that even if you tied 2 hybrid cars together.

Apparently, some of the motorcyclists in the building think their bikes will catch something from parking near this, so you don't ever have to worry about those people knocking it over. So not only do you not have to wait to get a parking spot here, but you'll have a nice buffer zone.

All you need to take this beauty home is to have a class 5 license, give me 650 dollars (0b0) and pau MPI $230 a year. You can practically insure this PC50 with the change from your couch.

You can reach me at 990-4278 any time after 4pm.

I don't actually know anyone at work who rides a scooter, so I don't think I'm burning any bridges with this one. I did used to have a friend who rides his motorcycle to work, but he hasn't really talked to me since this ad went up. He also parked far away from my moped. Coincidence? Probably.

I always write particular lines that aren't very funny, but they amuse me to no end. In this case, every time I read the line about the hybrid cars, I start laughing.

The weird thing about this ad is that I've had coworkers, and strangers, come up to me and comment on it. Nobody has said anything negative about it. I have heard stories of people gathering around a computer and reading it out loud. What the fuck? I was told by a coworker that her daughter loved my ad. This woman actually felt the ad was funny enough to take it home and show her family. How fucked up is that? This is an ad for a moped!!! I admit, I went for form over function mostly, but it's still an ad nonetheless.

I had written up an ad to post on kijiji as well, but they didn't accept it. Apparently there is some sort of quality review. Though I suspect it is because that contained the following paragraph:

Guys, this sex machine comes with a stick, so you can beat off the ladies. Ladies, I don't think you need any help beating guys off.

Apparently I'm never going to get the  phrase "sex machine" into an ad.

So the end to this story is I did actually sell the moped through kijiji. I got 500, which is over 75% of my asking price! As far as I'm concerned, that's some sort of record for selling something on kijiji. I had to wade through about twenty million offers of 300 dollars to get it though. People are cheap.

I had one person email me, and all it said was "$200?", so I emailed him back "$10000000?". He replied with "?", so I said "I thought we were playing the stupid offers game. My bad". I am easily annoyed by selling things on the internet, but at the same time, I have a lot of fun writing the ads. Maybe if I let it all out on my blog, I can write normal ads for things and have an easier time selling them. For now, I'm still ineffective at marketing, though.