The MagicGizmo classifieds are your one stop place to sell your new, used and vintage magic.  If you have a favorite forum where you post your ads or an e-mail list, here's how you can use MagicGizmo to still manage your items for sale.  New tools are available to manage bulk lists and also help search engines find your listings.

Why Use MagicGizmo.com for Selling New, Used, and Vintage Magic?

It's Free - It won't cost you a penny. All you have to do is register.

Search Engine Friendly URLs - What does this mean? It means that your ad is more likely to be picked up by in a higher page rank in search engines. This mean more customers coming to see your ad.

Your For Sale Items Included in For Sale Newsletter - Every month the listing on the classfied ads are mailed to our for sale list subsrciber which reaches hundreds of people.  There is nothing extra you need to do. Your listings are automatically included.

Free Banners of Your Stuff on MagicGizmo - Classified Ads are randomly displayed to users on most pages of the site. This means as people are reading content, they will be presented with your ads (randomly selected from all the ads in the database.)

Free Custom Store URL - This limited time offer allows people to conveniently locate just your classified ads. Get the details by clicking here. *LIMITED TIME OFFER*

Great Seller Tools - These tools allow you to download your ads for posting on other sites and also perform mass price updates which is a great way to keep interest in your ads as prices can be updated as they have been available and unsold (the amount of discount and when is all controlled by you.)

Great Rewards - MagicGizmo Rewards is offering 30 Gizmo points for just posting 5 classified ads with pictures.  The Gizmo points can be redeemed for $$$ in the Magicgizmo Store.

eBay isn't What it Used to be - On eBay, you used to be able to get top dollar for your used magic but not so much anymore.  On top of the increasing fees and lower sales prices, it really isn't worth it anymore. With eBay and PayPal fees, you will be charge in many cases, over 10% in fees.

Get Your Price - Ads expire in 90 days so you have plenty of time to get the price you deserve.  No need to worry about finding the right auction buyer in 7 days or having you ad quicky buried in a forum posting.

 

Posting Your Ads

First, you need to be registered and logged-in.  Next, post your ads by selecting "New Ad" in the Classified Ad area.  Enter a picture. While this isn't required, MagicGizmo randomly displays classifieds on the site so a picture is more likely to catch someones eye that just text.

Promoting Your Ads

If you click on the My Ads link in the Classified Ad section, you have now discovered your personal link to all your ads on the site. If you send out e-mails, you can refer to this link and people can find everything you are selling.  Also, you can download your ads from MagicGizmo which allows you to be able to quickly paste-in all your ads into a forum or e-mail with a few clicks.  See also Downloading your ads.

Downloading Your Ads

Why would I want to do this? If you use the MagicGizmo to post all your items for sale, you may wish to also post them on other forums and sites, but this can be a hassle of maintaining information in more than one place. So here's how you do it: post all your ads to MagicGizmo. If something sells, delete the ad. You can change the price in MagicGizmo also. You can always then download a current list of your items for sale which can be posted to other forums which allow for these types of postings.

How do I download my current ads to Excel? When you are logged-in, you will see and link in the left hand side when viewing the Classified Ads->Seller Tools section.  Click here. There are tabs in the spreadsheet. The first one is the simple view and the easiest to post directly into another forum or document.  First, I suggest formatting the price column to format as currency. Then highlight the first 2 columns and click copy.  Then select a document and select paste and there you have it.

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Mass Price Updates / Reverse Auctions

This allows you to reduce the pricing of all your ads with just one click. This way you can set your prices for a good price and if they don't sell you can reduce them easily all at once. You just log-in and go to Classified Ads -> Seller Tools. You enter the percent you'd like to reduce all your ads and click the Update button. You can even specify a minimum value or not to adjust particular ads at all when you set them up.  To set a minimum value or for it not to adjust at all, click "Update Ad" and you may select these options there.