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Say your used bike is reasonably worth $1,000. Here's how you post on Craiglist to lower your final bike sale price, and by how much:
- Only pictures of the non-drive side of the bike: subtract $400
- Limited number of blurry pictures: subtract $400
- Vague description that does not include list of major components: subtract $300
- No listing of size: subtract $300
- Use of all CAPS or all lower case run-on text. This indicates that posting was made by a 14 year old on a smart phone: Subtract $200
- Seller indicates illiteracy through the inclusion of words such as: 'breaks', 'peddles' or 'helmut': Subtract $50 per use.
- Highlighting how the bike comes with an irrelevant and likely worthless accessory such as a lock or helmut. This indicates that the seller is unclear as to what constitutes relative value. Plus we don't want your head lice, or have to spend an hour hacksawing off of your old lock: Subtract $50.
- Indicating that the bike was made by Shimano: Subtract $500.
- Use of exclamation marks or irrelevant juvenile expletives such as: "Awesome!!!": Subtract $50 per use.
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