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windwhispersintreeswindwhispersintrees Posts: 605 ✭✭✭
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"as you can see from the scan/photo"=You won't be able to see diddly squat in the small blurry photo. Seller is hoping you imagine something rare and valuable.

"l@@k"=Don't look until you've had a few drinks first.

"Rare!"=Stinks like a squishy banana from underneath the fridge. Anything but rare.

"estate sale find"=scratchy spare change from the floor of the local flea market.

"low mintage!"=Seller doesn't own any reference books and likes to make up numbers.

"monster"=Something that should appear only in children's bedtime stories, and NEVER be used in the same sentence as 'toned' or 'coin'.

"rainbow"=see entry for "monster"

"one of a kind"=seller forgot to pay attention to how he made the first fake, and is unable to replicate it.

"brilliant"=it's nice and shiny from when the seller polished it up.

I could go on, but why bother....it's just too tiresome.





"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes"--Hugh Downs

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  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    Yep! Also here are some others:

    "recommended by investment people" = out of date references or a relative who was asked to say it
    "unsearched" = so I asked someone else to search it
    "investment quality" = I'm trying to justify a high price
    "plus bonus coin" = I'm desperate to get rid of low margin stuff
    "with the price of silver surging to $5" (saw this today): I have to say something positive
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  • RLinnRLinn Posts: 596 ✭
    Raw Error (as in Oswald Kennedy) = I was in error posting this piece of garbage and it will probably leave you raw.
    Buy the coin...but be sure to pay for it.
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    I like this stuff. Can I use it in one of my auctions sometime? I occasionally like to make fun of these sellers in my listings.image

    Russ, NCNE
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  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    Sure, you can use any of mine. image

    Here are some more based on the curent listings on ebay:Coins:US Coins

    "hoard" = What I had to do to get the coins
    "original" = Couldn't think of more clever adjectives
    "awesome detail" = I can't grade
    "elegant" = old
    "includes key dates" = the series may have key dates, but you won't find them here
    "massive collection" = the combined re-selling of "hoards" previously bought in dutch auctions
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  • prooflikeprooflike Posts: 3,879 ✭✭
    "clear fields...brilliant detail" - I have the light angled just right so you can't see all the hairlines and rub
    image
  • calgolddivercalgolddiver Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
    unsearched - by it's next owner
    real old - minted prior to state quarters
    antique chest full of ... - the current repository for our previously searched coins
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  • airplanenutairplanenut Posts: 22,222 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Pissing Minute Man- so maybe I did mark it up 100000% but it's rare! You can't show me another example, even though you did!

    Supply and Demand- the theory that says a coin with supply and no demand should still sell for $95,000
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  • JY93JY93 Posts: 66 ✭
    Too bad they dont put cleaned, artificially toned, overgraded, and just straight up ugly. Sometimes the descriptions are not even clost to the pictures. On the other hand the vast majority of sellers are honest. You know what they say about a few bad apples.
  • BigAlanBigAlan Posts: 311 ✭
    unsearched-we wiped off the fingerprints.
    "It is good for the state that the people do not think."

    Adolf Hitler
  • FC57CoinsFC57Coins Posts: 9,140 ✭
    Hey - you forgot two of my all time favorites:

    "graded" - it's in an ACG slab
    "Valued at $$$$ but selling at $$" - it's in an NTC or Segs slab

    image

    Frank
  • ursabearursabear Posts: 1,888
    "Rare" - " it cost a lot, and I need to bet a lot for it on auction"
    "Rare" - only 4 billion available imageimageimage

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