touchofeurope
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posted on July 13, 2001 04:25:27 PM new
Just some Friday evening fun - what do you hate to see in a title?
My personal choice is the perennial 'L@@K' and all caps with exclamation marks all over, but especially the l@@k....
What are other ones you hate, get a good laugh of?
We might even help ourselves here by seeing what works and what doesn't (or what attracts and what doesn't)
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mrspock
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posted on July 13, 2001 04:32:39 PM new
how about RARE on items that only have 75 of the same ones listed.
none of which have bids
Spock here....
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jayadiaz
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posted on July 13, 2001 04:47:29 PM new
My personal favorite is OOP, HTF on books I can still pick up at my local grocery store.
Jay
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touchofeurope
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posted on July 13, 2001 04:53:45 PM new
What does HTF mean? I don't really know much about books.
I also have to think of the 'MINTY' I saw on a thread this week, I saw one today and was LOL  .
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jayadiaz
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posted on July 13, 2001 05:00:45 PM new
HTF=hard to find
VHTF=very hard to find
The word MINT itself drives me crazy unless it's really like new. But a lot of people don't use it that way. I was recently at a tag sale of a woman getting rid of her 'antique shop inventory'. Apparently it was a hobby she got tired of. Anyway, I was buying several Limoge plates from her and some prints I ended up paying like 15.00 for the lot after a long discussion that there was no such thing as "MINT for their age". I could not keep a straight face.
edited for poor typing
[ edited by jayadiaz on Jul 13, 2001 05:01 PM ]
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uglimouse
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posted on July 13, 2001 06:00:17 PM new
Antique Bronze Station Clock, Rare.
Description "Condition: Mint, but missing hands, and clock mechanism"
[ edited by uglimouse on Jul 13, 2001 06:09 PM ]
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peiklk
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posted on July 13, 2001 06:19:30 PM new
I saw RARE on a Christmas ornament that my Salvation Army Thrift store has a ton of! I had actually bought one to sell, then looked it up and saw RARE emblazoned upon it. LOL.
I also like when people list RARE and THEY are the ones putting up the 75 different ads for the same thing!!!
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hcross
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posted on July 13, 2001 06:35:54 PM new
I would just like to reach through my computer and grab the sellers who put "minty" in the title, that bugs the crap out of me. I truly hate shabby chic and shabby sheik. I wonder what kind of idiots there must be out there when they confuse sheik for chic, my God. LQQK also perturbs me, I really should get a life, I spend way too much time on ebay. Heather
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Powerhouse
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posted on July 13, 2001 07:14:57 PM new
"Antique" on an item 15 years old.
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Islander
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posted on July 13, 2001 10:00:18 PM new
Going back to the supposed "eye-catchers" like "L@@K"
The titles that are typed in random caps lower case, such as:
"a FAnTAsTIc ITeM THaT yOU mUSt BE StUPiD EnOUgH tO BiD ON"
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kittykittykitty
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posted on July 13, 2001 10:27:57 PM new
this is fun
my contribution: use of the word 'vintage' to mean something made more than 15 minutes ago.
kittyx3
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immykidsmom
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posted on July 13, 2001 10:51:21 PM new
hi all.....
I buy fabric. You know, sewing fabric. It comes on , like, 15 yard bolts. OK?
I see ALL THE TIME ads that say;
1 yd of this unique fabric!!!!!
what? did they weave it in the back room???
I'm sure other categories misuse 'unique' also......
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MurphyBird
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posted on July 14, 2001 03:47:40 AM new
Oh I just hate those auctions with the mixed capitals! I won't even go any furhter once I spot that. I received an response to one of my EOA notices like that - boy that hurt the eyes.
All that extra work in pressing the shift key probably gives them carpal tunnel syndrome.
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dhmagician
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posted on July 14, 2001 04:20:18 AM new
hcross: Sellers are intentionally using the description "shabby shiek." Seems Shabby Chic is a trademarked name and ebay has been in the habit of ending auctions that have the words Shabby Chic in the description. Me? I don't use either because to me it simply denotes "garage sale type crap."
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toteullenebay
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posted on July 14, 2001 04:36:53 AM new
My personal pet hate is W@W OR WOW!! OR EVEN !!WOW!!
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JMHO2
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posted on July 14, 2001 05:02:24 AM new
The worse title was:
"A pretty piece" Not only do people not search for any of those words, but no description was in the auction either.
The worst auction descriptions have no paragraph breaks/flashing gifs/blinking words/music/misspellings/no descriptions, just a photo (speaks for itself)/takes forever to load because of backgrounds.
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siddielou
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posted on July 14, 2001 06:21:22 AM new
As a fellow facric buyer I hate it when folks use FQS (Fat Quarters - basically an 18X22" piece of calico) to describe ONE FAT QUARTER. The S means its MORE THAN ONE (unrelated rant - How are these people making money selling 1 fat quarter per auction? Even if it's from one of the really great designers its still only going to fetch a $1.00 or so, especially if its sold without the rest of the collection).
Also, in the sewing category - LOT of Women's Suit Patterns or Lot of Patterns (or some such description of lot). Click on the auction and learn that there are either
- no pictures
- only brand names & numbers but no pictures (like I can tell by the brand name and number what the item is - every sewer has every pattern made archieved in their brain)
- the patterns are in totally different sizes from 2-56. Okay - if I'm a 20 why oh why would I want a bunch of patterns that are a size 2?????????
- or the lot is 2 items or unrelated items like a suit pattern, a halloween costume, and bibs.
Thanks for letting me rant,
Sid.
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meridenmor
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posted on July 14, 2001 02:29:25 PM new
I deal a lot in silver and the one that bugs me is: excellent condition winning bidder to polish. No one can know what lurks under the tarnish. I have found major damage under light tarnish numerous times. That and 'rare' on things that are really quite common. And in the silver department: made up pieces being sold as antique. Also, I see a lot of ladels on eBay.
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touchofeurope
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posted on July 14, 2001 02:33:40 PM new
I just ran across 'dewligate', and it wasn't a typo - it was in the title and several times in the text...... guess it wouldn't be 'delicate' to mention it to the seller?
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hcross
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posted on July 14, 2001 02:48:33 PM new
The "shabby sheik" has been used for quite sometime. When I am feeling brave I email them and ask them what that is supposed to mean, and if they accidentally mispelled chic. 99% are terribly embarrased and the auction titles are changed within a few hours. There are usually only 3 or 4 up at a time, so I see no big trend to try and circumvent the vero police.
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cougarcollectibles
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posted on July 14, 2001 06:09:37 PM new
When looking at celebrity 8x10's:
B@@BS!!!!!!
and
Massive Rack!
Always strike me as horribly tacky.
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mrspock
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posted on July 14, 2001 06:35:42 PM new
"I'm leaving ebay" so leave already!!
spock here......
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sadie999
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posted on July 14, 2001 06:36:14 PM new
Can you imagine what someone searching for taxidermy must get when they search "massive rack?"
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Islander
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posted on July 14, 2001 09:09:10 PM new
Sadie999 -- ROFLMAO!!! Have to tell my elk-hunting sweetie to read this thread!
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kept2much-07
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posted on July 14, 2001 09:17:15 PM new
The words "must see". Why must I see it? Will I die if I don't see it? Will I become sick if I don't see it? Will they put a spell on me if I don't see it? I will be happy not to see it for fear of what might or might not happen.
Titles~like~this~so-they-make-the-gallery space larger.
Ditto on the CaPiTOl crap. It's the worst!
OOP Did you drop it and now it's broken? OOPS!
Rare Did they forget to cook it?
NR Does that mean no return, not right or no reserve? Especially on a $5.00 item.
NO RESERVE So who cares?
Blow Out! Does it have a flat?
FAB Isn't that laundry detergent?
Gotta quit. Goodnight!
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ehansen
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posted on July 15, 2001 06:24:32 AM new
The one I'll always remember: "Disney's, "The Loin King" No Reserve". I almost bought it for the scandal value but realized my search box typo just in time......
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reston_ray
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posted on July 15, 2001 06:50:59 AM new
Now if some forward looking business person would just launch a Rare (as in brand name) line of products, then in a few years they could VeRO the use of Rare. Could do the same with LQQK/L@@K.
Might be a business opportunity or it could just be done as a public service.
LQQK/L@@K - Rare Shabby Chic - would disappear from the site and printouts of old listings would become a collectable.
[ edited by reston_ray on Jul 15, 2001 06:53 AM ]
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rarriffle
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posted on July 15, 2001 09:22:38 AM new
my favorite, or should I say most hated? is "shabby chic". Why not just put the word junk in the title?
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dejapooh
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posted on July 17, 2001 02:58:40 PM new
We call it Shoddy Chic.
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NothingYouNeed
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posted on July 17, 2001 03:22:13 PM new
The word that makes me maddest when I find it in a title is like as in "(insert brand name) like". I know it is designed to snare buyers using a brand name as a keyword search and is unethical IMO.
Gerald
"Oh but it's so hard to live by the rules/I never could and still never do."
[ edited by NothingYouNeed on Jul 17, 2001 03:23 PM ]
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