Fun on Ebay

Want to read some great auction copy and try to figure out why it is so successful? Talk about your remote hypnosis...

Go to ebay, and look up all the auctions from a seller named gomarket1.

You gotta read these...

Jim E

Hi Jim,

Thanks for pointing these out - wow, interesting auction technique!

I've linked to some of gomarket1's auctions below.... He seems to have an approach which works. (It sure draws you in....)

- Dien


gomarket1's current auctions...

I honestly couldn't figure out what he was selling or why someone was paying that amount of money for it. The first several read-throughs, it looked like they were just paying him to write paragraphs on Ebay.

I had to read the ads several times before I figured out that there was actually a product.

Uh... maybe it's a guy thing?


Five minute mentor

sent me to sleep. Zzzzzzz.....

Frankly, I couldn't be bothered reading his letters. I tried. But they just never actually got to the point and so

I was outta there.

Michael Ross


No long letters that don't come to the point here

Hi Michael,

I think the "proof of the pudding is in the eating"....

His 4th dimension NLP set is a 6 cassette-tape set, and it seems to generally get bid up into the range of $75 to $150. I think that's not bad given that he's essentially a "nobody" as far as I'm aware....

I've linked to one of his past auctions below, where he sold this 6 tape set for $152.50 + S&H....

I think it's interesting.

By the way, "mesmerizing" with stories is a particular NLP technique.... Ross Jeffries also uses it (though he uses it to seduce women) - you can read about it in his materials.... I think usage of these techniques to seduce people is unethical, but I believe it probably works.

- Dien

P.S. I am not recommending this in any way - just the ads are interesting. There are other sources where you can find out about this stuff too....


Another one of this guy's auctions....

One thing that this Ebayer also does is to contact each bidder and then gives information in his e-mails to each bidder with the nudge that the bidder better get the item before someone else does, to increase the bidding...(I had a friend that bought from this Ebayer)

Giving the bidders more than they expect is a great technique to create desire, I think.

Additionally, this ebayer also creates the product himself from his experiences with clients and interviews, so he has fantastic profits as well.

Just my two cents.

RE:
> I've linked to some of gomarket1's auctions
> below.... He seems to have an approach which
> works. (It sure draws you in....)

> - Dien

Hi Dien,

I ran an analysis of his auctions and discovered the following based on 30 days of his sales history (ebaY only keeps sales info for that amount of time):

Number of auctions run: 24
Number sold: 20
Percent Sold: 83%
Total Sales: $2,261
Average sale: $113
Average Number of Bids Per Auction: 10.3

I used a program that analyzes ebaY seller and market sector activity called DeepAnalysis.

So even though some of gomarket1's items are selling for big bucks it doesn't look like he's doing a huge business on ebaY. I mean he's not doing to bad, but I've seen better ;-)

For example look up these ebaY sellers:
catindrum
intrepidway
infoking
xbook

There are people on ebay doing $10,000 a month or better! Which is good news for the rest of us ;-)

-Dave

> One thing that this Ebayer also does is to
> contact each bidder and then gives
> information in his e-mails to each bidder
> with the nudge that the bidder better get
> the item before someone else does, to
> increase the bidding...(I had a friend that
> bought from this Ebayer)

Good call M.W. Why let previous buyers and their willingness to spend money with you die? You have already established enough trust - for whatever reason - to get them to give you some of their hard earned money. So give them the chance to give you some more of their money by letting them know you have another product up for grabs.

Since '98 I've been getting weekly emails from an eBay seller. The emails let me know all about their new auctions. And all because I bought something from them back then.

If you (not meaning you M.W., but everyone reading) sell on eBay, you can increase the action on your auctions by letting previous winners know you have another auction going.

Michael Ross

Hi Mel,

I don't know, it could be a guy thing.... I think though, his ads would probably appeal to a certain type of person who is looking for that "one secret" to "instant" success.... If someone is looking for that, I think they'd read through his listing closely! Those of us who also know there's some hard work involved, or who have seen this kind of thing before, might not be so inclined....

I've seen this kind of thing before (from other reading I've done about NLP), but I still found it an interesting example. (Though Millard and Dave have also helped to throw some light on these auctions in particular!)

- Dien Rice

Hi Dave,

Thanks for sharing that info.... Interesting! And the "Deep Analysis" software looks very useful (I'll have to give the trial version a try)....

Of the other sellers you mentioned, I thought "xbook's" auctions seemed to be particularly successful.

He seems to sell everything he lists - he sells DVDs, and I've noticed also from other DVD sellers that DVDs sell very well! If you can find a good (legitimate) source, I think selling DVD's on eBay could be a roaring business! I wonder where he gets his DVDs from....

- Dien