A website record was broken on Saturday, Jan 16, 2010. Normally, the new classified ads posted in a day is around 1,500 (for the Utah state area), but on Saturday it was 8,256. That's over 5 times the normal.
What's going on?
A quick poll to some of the user's who posted shows the following reasons:
- Was too busy during Christmas to post, so catching up now.
- Got this for Christmas but don't want / need it.
- Ebay is too expensive and too much of a hassle, so I don't post there anymore. (this was from a business)
- I need money and want to get rid of the junk I'm not using.
I think reason #4 is the most popular reason. Got to pay off those credit cards built up during Christmas, perhaps. I didn't want to ask and get any more personal.
One person who posted 22 items that day said his wife passed away and he was selling furniture and stuff to downsize and move to a smaller place. That's a lot of items for one person in one day.
Typically Thursdays are the biggest post day of the week, probably because people try to sell stuff by the end of the weekend.
The day after, Sunday, only saw slightly more than normal posts.
I do think classified ad posting is becoming more popular in general. I'll keep watching what happens and let you know here.
The data source used for this blog entry was from http://www.nearbyitems.com/.
Happy Posting...
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