Craigslist is a great resource for finding used items, but it can be tough to get a good deal. Here are four tips for bumping an ad:

  1. Check the seller’s feedback rating. A high rating means the seller is reputable and likely to follow through with the sale.
  2. Look for similar items. If you’re looking for a specific item, search for similar ads that have been posted recently. This will help you find a seller who has still got the item in stock and is willing to sell it at a discounted price.
  3. Contact the seller directly. If you don’t find what you’re looking for on Craigslist, contact the seller directly and ask if they have any other listings that might fit your needs. Many sellers are happy to list additional items or offer discounts if they know someone is interested in buying their entire inventory.
  4. Use Craigslist’s bidding feature to get a lower price on an item before bidding on it yourself. This will help ensure that you get the best deal possible when buying an item from a stranger online. ..

More commonly, bump ups are done with Craigslist Premium Ads. These bump ups usually require some kind of test to do well; they’re more advanced than traditional bump ups. They often also have restrictions on what cities they apply to and where you can post them (commonly only in their beginning city). It’s difficult to get one of these types of bump ups approved at first because you need a lot of experience doing bumpups before the system trusts that you’ll actually bump up the ad.

Not all bump ups are done with bumpup ads; sometimes bump ups are added to A-List or early bird bump up ads. Sometimes bump ups just get posted once, and have little requirements beyond that. Sometimes adding a bump up is required for approval of an item. The most important thing to note is that some bump ups aren’t just “post this ad with these requirements,” they’re more like “sell this item at the above price using whatever marketing methods you see fit.” In those cases it’s important to be creative in your approach so you don’t get denied as not having met the requirements (and thus getting suspended).

The below instructions apply mainly to bumpups for normal bumpup ads: bump ups that require bumping of the bump up ad.

Requirements for bump ups vary by where they’re posted and how they’re obtained, but most bumpups have these requirements:

– Item has to be one from a list of acceptable items (depending on the bumpup). The item must be new and in stock. If it’s not new, it should be like-new; if it’s a used item you can also try selling for less than retail price.

title: “How To Bump A Craigslist Ad” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-22” author: “Doreen Talley”

Craigslist is a great resource for finding used items, but it can be tough to get a good deal. Here are four tips for bumping an ad:

  1. Check the seller’s feedback rating. A high rating means the seller is reputable and likely to follow through with the sale.
  2. Look for similar items. If you’re looking for a specific item, search for similar ads that have been posted recently. This will help you find a seller who has still got the item in stock and is willing to sell it at a discounted price.
  3. Contact the seller directly. If you don’t find what you’re looking for on Craigslist, contact the seller directly and ask if they have any other listings that might fit your needs. Many sellers are happy to list additional items or offer discounts if they know someone is interested in buying their entire inventory.
  4. Use Craigslist’s bidding feature to get a lower price on an item before bidding on it yourself. This will help ensure that you get the best deal possible when buying an item from a stranger online. ..

But yesterday when I called one of the places where I left my flyer on their info line, they already knew about me! They said they found my online ad and read a little about my group. So I decided to bump it again this week just in case anyone was looking for something new on the music front during the holiday season.

I really only have one instrument left to sell, so if anyone knows any other good spots to leave flyers (or has an extra sax lying around collecting dust) that would be great! Otherwise I’ll keep trying craigslist; seems like a relatively stress-free way of selling stuff.

You should keep bumping your post every few days (at least). Craigslist is set-up so that the more time goes on and the less new posts there are, then it begins to show up in more searches automatically. You’ve got to realize that most people don’t come back onto Craigslist daily like you might if you’re posting something for sale or looking for work or whatever. We just don’t have the time 🙂 So when someone does decide they want to sell something and checks into craigslist, they may find something that is now 3-4 weeks old but not realize it because there are still new posts.

So, you need to keep bumping your post in order to stay near the top of the list of all ads on craigslist for a particular section. You don’t want to be hidden down at the bottom of the page with all the old posts! So save some change and get an account with Gmail or Yahoo and then start posting about once a day until you get a bite 🙂 Then post back here if you can and let us know how it worked out (or didn’t)!

Good luck!

I figured it was worth a shot to bump my ad because I’ve been getting more and more sick of keeping the sax around (and have had people “interested” in buying lately) but haven’t actually found anyone who’s really solid on making a purchase so it didn’t seem like moving it would be all that productive. Still, I put the post out there and today got an email from someone interested in potentially giving me money for an instrument I don’t want anymore! I think I may have been a little slow in responding to her email, but she seemed very excited that the instrument was still available and is planning on coming out of her way next week to make the purchase.

I’m not sure if this type of post would really be considered spam because (as far as I know) it’s not repeated advertising for one product or service, just bumping up an ad once every few days. But like Dave said, most people don’t go back onto Craigslist every day so maybe it does qualify? In any event, I’d say my experience says that bumping is definitely something worth doing because nothing else has worked quite so far.

Good luck to anyone else out there still looking for a good way to sell an instrument (and let me know if you find one!).

Email #3: Not Getting Posting Responses? Try This. (Sept 2010)

On a related note, some people have been having trouble getting responses to their ads when posting in the “For Sale” section on Craigslist. I’m not quite sure what’s going on with this but someone mentioned that they had more success signing up as a “Seller” on craigslist instead of just using the free email account option. There are stories about other people claiming similar results from signing up directly with craigslist so it might be worth giving it a shot if you’re trying to get