Ebay ad that is. After 4 days, I have a pathetic 81 hits on the counter, 7 people on "watch". That was yesterday, today my watchers reduced to 6, so it's getting worse AND to add insult to injury, the opening bid is still open at $1!!!!!!
Earlier this year I advertised 3 weeks and sold one of them. The one I sold went really quickly, and infact the buyer contacted me before the end of the auction to pay full price. I advertised the other two weeks shortly after the success of the first, but other than a couple of enquiries, I got nothing.
The people that booked were really nice.
The weeks I advertised were all 'last minute' for August. So either people didn't want what I had to offer, or the timescales didn' fit.
I would use Ebay again, but I need to think about a testing strategy first. I suppose my experience is that yes it works, but it isn't the be all and end all.
I have recently noted that someone has opened an e bay shop selling rentals in Tuscany I suppose the fact that they have actually seen the properties they advertise give the customers more security. Does anyone know anything about this?
Maybe just luck, but in the times we've had e-bay guests, they've all been model guests - leaving the cottage sparkling with OTT comments in the guest book. And a number of them have returned paying full prices (at least our 5% discount returning guest's price).
Well
After reading about it on here and seeing Helens and Johns posts.....
Ive just posted a cancelled week at the end of July on there...[As ive said on another thread ]
so I will let you know how it turns out..worth a wiggle I thought