Movies for children

box of kids movie's


ended - Sunday, February 24, 2008

Auction grade: F-

Starting bid: $10.00

Final selling price: $0 - no bids


In this eBay auction, the seller is attempting to sell a box of VHS movies for children. This is exactly what it says:

"Box of kids movie's evrything from power rangers to disney features. For everyone in the family."

There's no picture of the movies, number of movies, or even a listing of the titles. The buyers are completely in the dark for this auction.

Major work needs to be done throughout this auction, starting up at the title. For starters, it's spelled "movies" (no apostrophe), and partial movie titles would be useful. The seller mentioned "power rangers" and "disney" in the body of the auction. Both of those would be useful in the title. I would even replace the word "box" with either "collection" or "LOT". Using the word "box" makes it sound less important to you, and therefore more like junk to other people.

As it was mentioned before, the seller needs to let us know exactly how many movies are for sale, and which titles are included in the set. Is this for a box of ten or fifty movies? One would be a better deal than the other.

A picture of the collection would also be a useful selling tool. People like to see the actual items for sale when buying things online. In this case, I would lay out the movies into a neat grouping and take a general picture of the collection. Unless one of the movies is rare and deserves special attention, extra pictures aren't needed.

Without knowing any details at all, the starting bid of $10 and shipping cost of $10 is very high. Considering the lack of demand for VHS, and movie rental stores selling used VHS tapes for dirt cheap, that $20 price could be used to support your local merchants. You could have more movies for your family within an hour and without worrying about shipping or trying to contact the seller if there's a problem.


Overall, this needs major work in every part of the auction. If you're going to spend the money for a seven day auction and $10 starting bid, you need to take the effort and physically type out the entire listing of movies. You also need to use a spell checker to catch most of the basic errors. Just because you've heard about other people making lots of money on eBay doesn't mean that you will too.

With an auction like this, you shouldn't have to ask the seller basic questions like "how many movies are in the box?" or "which titles are included?" Don't make the buyers contact you for information that should be clearly displayed in the auction.