Daily blog (audio): They never turn up do they? [Selling stuff on Facebay]

<p>They never turn up do they? [Selling stuff on Facebay]</p> <p><br> <br> We're on a mission to help one million people RISE by 2030 - join the movement at <a href="http://www.myrise.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.myrise.co.uk</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>I recently posted my old Nintendo Wii on Facebook Market Place.</p> <p>In case you’re not aware of what that is, it’s a free function on Facebook that you can use to advertise things for sale.</p> <p>And you can also post them in various free Facebook groups often called things like ‘Facebay Macclesfield’ or ‘Buy, sell and swap Your Town Name’.</p> <p>I just wanted to get rid of it so I put it on for free.</p> <p>I have never received so many messages.</p> <p>Hundreds.</p> <p>I offered it to the first one and he said he’d come that night.</p> <p>And didn’t.</p> <p>I offered it to the second one who said the same.</p> <p>Then messaged back later to say “Let someone else have it”.</p> <p>And on it went.</p> <p>This often happens selling stuff on there.</p> <p>But this was next level.</p> <p>Probably in the teens of people asking if they could have it, confirming they were going to come and get it……..</p> <p>Then not.</p> <p>No skin in the game you see.</p> <p>It’s too easy when something is free to say all the right things.</p> <p>But then, when action is needed, to not be willing to do the work.</p> <p>It’s one of the reasons we don’t do a free trial.</p> <p>We know, from experience, that people don’t value it.</p> <p>They say all the right things…….</p> <p>But don’t actually always take action.</p> <p>The skin in the game of paying makes it more likely they will.</p> <p>So why would we run a process that makes it less likely that people will get results?</p> <p>We offer a money back guarantee on completion of the programme, so it’s risk free.</p> <p>Do it and don’t love it and it hasn’t cost you anything.</p> <p>But people always love it when they actually do it.</p> <p>To have a money back guarantee that would encourage people to drop out in the first co