I had an old kitchen table sitting in my garage for three months because my listing said, in its entirety, "kitchen table, good condition, $75 obo." Nobody wants that table. I didn't even want that table, and I owned it.
Out of mild desperation I described the table to an AI chatbot the way I'd describe it to a neighbor — solid wood, seats six, one small scratch on one leg you'd only notice up close, been in the family for a while but we're downsizing — and asked it to turn that into a listing that sounds like a person wrote it, not a barcode label.
The listing it gave me led with the actual selling point (solid wood, seats six — that's what a family shopping for a table cares about), mentioned the scratch honestly instead of hiding it, which builds trust with a buyer instead of setting up an awkward pickup conversation, and had a clear, friendly closing line instead of just trailing off into a price.
That table sold in four days once I reposted it with the new description and a couple of decent photos, same price, same table, same garage it had been sitting in. The only thing that changed was that the listing finally told someone why they'd want it.
This works the same for anything you're trying to sell — a couch, a car, kids' outgrown gear. Give the AI the honest details, ask it to make it sound like a person selling something they actually owned, and you'll usually end up with something a lot more likely to get a message than "good condition, OBO."
If you want the slow, no-jargon version of all this — the stuff I wish someone had handed me before I fumbled through it myself — that's exactly what I built On Ramp AI for. Check it out here.