Hobby terms that annoy you

[RedsFan1941]

“my/our research indicates” when it is neither research or an indication of anything

[661fish]

"blazer"

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

"Wagz"

"WaJo"

"PayPal FF"

"pack rip"

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

not a huge fan of "book value"

[sycks22]

More of a pet peeve. When people bump their thread after selling it. Congrats on the sale, but I don't need to know you sold a card from 3 months ago.

[leaflover]

Card is graded a PSA1 and listed as "high end". .... Not a peeve I think it's funny!

[buymycards]

Describing a lot as "huge", when there are 12 cards in the lot.

Describing a card as "has huge boarders". C'mon people, it is "borders".

"Listening to offers". Put a price on the damn thing.

[WillowGrove]

Ducat

[RedsFan1941]

"bump for final price reduction"

"one more try"

"want to sell this today"

"cobb is still available"

"can't believe this hasn't sold"

"available again. buyer backed out"

"thanks for all the emails. card is still available"

[Forever Young]

Originally Posted by RedsFan1941

"bump for final price reduction"


"thanks for all the emails. card is still available"

This one is so ridiculous. Like nails on a chalkboard..
I unfortunately, have said many of these..#notetoself #selfawarenessiskey

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by buymycards

Describing a card as "has huge boarders". C'mon people, it is "borders".

Maybe they're so huge people are living in them?

[bnorth]

"make offer" just put a price on it and I will or won't buy it
"for trade" LOL, only if your card(s) are worth 10X what mine is/are
"error card" when it obviously isn't
"picture available on request"
Last but not least "book value(BV)" then they use the BV of a NrMint card to try and sell their vg beater.

Many more bother me but I don't want to post a few hundred silly hobby terms.

[Buythatcard]

As a seller, here is one that I hear too often which I hate. Five minutes after buyer wins an auction: "Can you please cancel transaction, I already have that card".

[uyu906]

Leaving, or not leaving "money on the table." I really dislike that phrase.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Cobby
whale

[WillBBC]

Originally Posted by Buythatcard

As a seller, here is one that I hear too often which I hate. Five minutes after buyer wins an auction: "Can you please cancel transaction, I already have that card".

That or, 'oh sorry I hit your Buy-It-Now price before reading the description, please cancel.

There is no faster way to reach my blocked buyers list.

[frankbmd]

Peter’s actually teaching a course at the local community college next semester entitled “Marketing 101”, and is looking for material to use in his course.

glwc

[CurtisFlood]

Pack fresh! Minty fresh! Attic find! Beauty! Blah, blah, blah!

[troutbum97]

“Raw”.
No. It’s ungraded.
It’s not like raw pork or raw oysters.


“Slabbed”.
No. It’s not a slab.
Slabbing is not a verb.

[Usc1]

Set break

Nicer in person

Attic Find

Estate Sale Find (glorified garage sale)

Putting out a feeler

[Fballguy]

"No returns" on ebay is more funny than annoying. No returns, huh? Want to bet?

"The pictures are part of the description" is annoying. Just describe the damn item. Your s****y pictures don't show me anything.

But the most annoying as a pennant collector is the application of any baseball card grading classification to a pennant. There's no such thing as a VG or EXMT pennant. Pennants should be described based on their...oh I don't know...exemplary "eye appeal".

[hawaiian bam bam]

“PSA ready” ya right! If it was PSA ready the seller would of submitted it already. To me that just means it’s a crappy card that the seller didn’t feel is worthy enough to send in to psa themselves!

[pokerplyr80]

Originally Posted by buymycards

Describing a lot as "huge", when there are 12 cards in the lot.

Describing a card as "has huge boarders". C'mon people, it is "borders".

"Listening to offers". Put a price on the damn thing.

Huge borders would be important to me as a buyer, especially on something like a high end t206 card. It means it's at least very likely the card hasn't been trimmed.

[h2oya311]

Originally Posted by pokerplyr80

Huge boarders would be important to me as a buyer, especially on something like a high end t206 card. It means it's at least very likely the card hasn't been trimmed.

Jesse, the point of the post is that the word is “borders”, not “boarders”.

[pokerplyr80]

Originally Posted by h2oya311

Jesse, the point of the post is that the word is “borders”, not “boarders”.

Ahh i see, not sure why I typed boarders in my reply but yes that makes sense. Although I'm not sure I would consider common spelling or grammatical errors relevant in a discussion of annoying hobby terms.