Thursday, April 30, 2009

Response to a misleading Craigslist ad.

2 PSL's for NY Jets - 50 yard line - $1
"I am offering the rights to two 50 yard line (Sec: 131 - Row:37) and under cover personal seat licenses for the NY Jets at their new stadium. These are Great Hall Club seats. $30,000 each"


I would like to purchase your two fifty yard line club seats for your posted price of one dollar each.

You say in the text of the ad $30,000 each, but that seems like a lot more than you posted in the headline. I'm more than willing to pay the price you give in the headline, but upping it thirty-thousand percent in the body of the ad is either a gross miscalculation on your part or you don't understand how writing an ad works.

When I search on craigslist for Jets tickets with a maximum price set at say, oh, one hundred dollars and I see that someone is selling tickets for a dollar, I think "Hey, great, someone really must need to get rid of their tickets." I'm not thinking "Well, I guess I should spend three hundred times more than I can afford to".

If the price is 30K per ticket, put that in the headline. Putting $1 in the headline doesn't trick anybody into buying your tickets, it just makes you look like an idiot or an asshole.
If the price genuinely is one dollar per ticket, then I apologize for my harsh language and genuinely wish to purchase your tickets.

But you're probably just being an asshole.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Well, here it is.

You've been asking me for years when I would start a blog to put all my musings and rantings and ravings and ramblings and scramblings and shamblings and tales of my gamblings into one compact place for you to read.

Well, here it is.