Hobby terms that annoy you

[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

[glynparson]

To me it is easily Diamond cut. They are trying to make a severe flaw sound like a positive. Tilted cocked or miscut on an angle should be used it is a flaw don't try and make it sound like a positive.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Not unique to cards, but sole proprietors who refer to themselves in the first person plural.

[ramram]

“.... but selling as a reprint”


Rob M

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Not unique to cards, but sole proprietors who refer to themselves in the first person plural.

We resent that remark...

[orly57]

When selling a card with an (oc) qualifier:
"An 8 with no qualifier sold for $x on Heritage last month."
As if somehow the two things were comparable.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by glynparson

To me it is easily Diamond cut. They are trying to make a severe flaw sound like a positive. Tilted cocked or miscut on an angle should be used it is a flaw don't try and make it sound like a positive.

Unless you collect them

[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

[Pat R]

"tough in high grade"
"extremely tough common"
incredibly rare pop card"

It's surprising that they don't talk themselves into keeping the card

[Michael Peich]

"The Hobby"

When it is used all I can hear are fingernails going across a chalk-board.

Mike

[Jim65]

Not a term but a big pet peeve, when I make an offer to a seller and they ask me to deal off eBay and pay by PayPal F&F. Why would I give up all my buyer protection just to save you fees? From now on, all these scumbags are getting reported to eBay.

[lumberjack]

Originally Posted by Michael Peich

"The Hobby"

When it is used all I can hear are fingernails going across a chalk-board.

Mike

It stopped being the "hobby when the Justice Department started sending "hobbyists" to prison. Let's retire the term "the hobby."
lumberjack

[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.

[packs]

"Being sold as is" and "listening to offers"

[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!

[stlcardsfan]

The finest example we have handled....

if it's that nice get your grubby paws off it!!

[marvymelvin]

When sellers use the term "repo" or "repop" when selling anyyhing that is a reproduction.

It has not been "repossessed" and I dont even know what "repop" even means.

"Repro" would be the proper short form, but even that bugs me. Heck, even anything with the proper label "reprint" or "reproduction" makes me feel blah.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Great call on "repop". Pardon? Repop? Too much repoppage these days.

[Throttlesteer]

"Snow white" balls. Um, no she doesnt

[ALR-bishop]

The "Natty" to refer to the National.

[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".

[Exhibitman]

A whine I heard a lot before this run-up in card prices:

"But I'm into it for more."

That's a 'you' problem, not a 'me' problem.

[Throttlesteer]

New to the hobby (previously mentioned)

Highly unlikely

[D. Bergin]

I saw the term "Hyper-Rare" used for a few listings yesterday.

I guess I found it more amusing then annoying though.

Was tempted to contact the seller and ask: "I'm really interested in your item, but am concerned about it's behavioral problems. What do you think would be the best way to calm it down?"

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

A whine I heard a lot before this run-up in card prices:

"But I'm into it for more."

That's a 'you' problem, not a 'me' problem.

Adam,

Thanks for a much-needed laugh. Do you mind if I borrow that quip every time somebody tries to get a discount, saying, "I have to get this item authenticated"? How does that mean that YOU expect me to deduct that money from the sale?!

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by BillyCox3

Adam,

Thanks for a much-needed laugh. Do you mind if I borrow that quip every time somebody tries to get a discount, saying, "I have to get this item authenticated"? How does that mean that YOU expect me to deduct that money from the sale?!

By all means, use it.

One that I hear all the time in my practice (in regard to real estate transactions) that makes my teeth grind: flexibility. As in "does the seller have any flexibility?" Argh!

[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.