BRIBE Offered For Feedback on Ebay Auction Sales Letter

Seasons Greetings Everyone:
The copy is very strange. Even unbelievable! That photo of the guy is weird. It could literally run the youngin's right out the classroom. Why would anyone need a Noise Thermometer? especially a Teacher??? Keep your eyes open and watch your wallet! I taught for over 15 years in an Urban Public school. First time seeing something like this. But... It really GRABS your ATTENTION!

Peace and Love for you in the New Year 2009.

DonSonic

Glenn,

Thanks for asking.

#1: The doll creeps me out. I would avoid your auction just because of that.

#2: The text formating is different. In yours the testimonials - and the questions to which she answered yes - are clearly segmented with double lines. In hers, there is no segmentation.

You have Bold items where she has none.

The beginning of yours - short brunette people - is different to hers - invisible book. Same with the Invented By Teacher vs Invisible way to shut people up.

#3: Her page layout is worse on the eye than yours - even though they are similar. Ebay is Easy Going on html. Just a small 600 wide table (centered on the page) into which your text is placed will help the reader. Nothing fancy. A html table is pretty easy even for a html-phobe - so no excuses here.

#4: Duane already touched on the About Me and Buy Now. But to add to the feedback... not only does she have No Feedback, her account is New.

#5: It's not unwanted xmas dinner brussle sprouts
http://cgi.ebay.com/A-PAIR-OF-UNWANT...1%7C240%3A1318

Michael Ross

[Glenn]

Dear Michael,

Thanks.

Good stuff.

What is an html table? I memorized the basic html codes. But must have missed out on the html table to control the page width.

Glenn

[Glenn]

Dear Michael,

Thanks for that.

But I wasn't intentionally trying to creep you out with the Weird Doll pic.

You, however.

The Wet, slimy Brussel Sprouts auction photos of YOURS.

Those were creepy.

Thanks,
Glenn

P.S. - Did you get the list of 100 million dollar movie BRIBE Report - ok?

I emailed you some basic table code - I see Cornell has since added some so others can see as well.

Yep. Got the Scooby Do List thing.

I also hate clowns... with their white makeup and fake noses...



And... clowns just aren't right...



Or...



And it's just the tip of the iceberg. These are just a tame sample of how scary clowns can be. There's worse out there. Much worse. {shudder}

Michael Ross

[Glenn]

Dear Michael,

Thanks for your insight into the Ugly - Creep Doll.

She Just sold another book.

Here's a link to the Auction now. Since the other one went bye-bye and got bought...

This is great.

We're Making mistakes like crazy - but selling books anyway.

Glenn

http://cgi.ebay.com/Noise-Thermomete...1%7C240%3A1318

Hi,

Hi Glen,

There are a lot of reasons why one auction will out sell another.
Here in Utah a guy that was selling his motor cycle had more bids and more people visiting his ad than anything before.(See ksl.com) A free television sponsered sales site.
He said he had to sell it because his wife had not given him permission to buy it in the first place. He also used some sarcasim in it that was quite funny. He ended up getting more than he thought he would get.
I'll look it up and send you a copy.

Thanks
Lamarr

The doll looks hypnotized.
"Buy it now" gives a set price, which could add up to value in the customer's mind.
Your seller ID shows 100% customer satisfaction with longevity.

My two cents.

Hi Glenn,

All the Best for 2009!

Glad to see that you're trying in Canada too... Although only partially En Français...
http://cgi.cafr.ebay.ca/Noise-Thermo...em120356346139

Might be worth Testing out a few more of the 30 other countries, maybe translated into Multilingual languages...
http://global.ebay.com/guides/selling

Not perfect But it does the job and works pretty good... Multilingual language translations for ebooks etc. will continue to be a Big growing trend...
http://www.google.com/language_tools

I know you regularly Love doing Weird and Successful marketing campaigns on Ebay...

But as a few have hinted and since it's Kids and Teacher related... Testing the idea with a variety of differently focused Images might be something worth considering...

I'm sure you know all about using the public domain... But just in case you don't, make sure you have this Great image resource in your toolbox...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_...mage_resources

Regarding Pete's comments, try viewing all your web pages with...
http://browsershots.org/

Phil

Hi Glenn,

Happy new Year for 2009.

The other points mentioned are excellent!

Just a minor observation I did notice that the Doll advert indicated the page numbers in the book so you had an idea of how much info you would receive/get and there was also a view counter so you could tell that others were viewing/had viewed the auction and this could maybe stir up competition.

David