Ebay dictionary

[Gene]

Found this in an auction. Found it humorous.

Gene

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EBAY DICTIONARY

Hard to Find -- "It's the only one I'm auctioning today." 

Rare -- "It's the only one I'm auctioning this week." 

Seller prefers Paypal - "I want your money and I want it NOW!" Very Rare -- "It's the only one I'm auctioning this month."

Unique -- "It's the only one I'm willing to sell." 

Mint -- "It looks more-or-less like it did when I bought/inherited/salvaged/found/stole it." 

Minty -- "It's mint (q.v.), except for the funny green sauce I dribbled on it while eating lamb chops the other night." 

New in Box (NIB) -- "I bought this with the sole intent of selling it for many times what I paid for it." 

Nice -- "Looks great-- doesn't work."

Complete -- "Except for the valuable, hard-to-find bits required to make it work." 

Not Tested/Sold As-Is -- "12VDC? 120VAC? There's a difference?" 

Like New -- "Like running over it with a car could really be that bad for it." 

With Extras -- "I didn't feel like auctioning the manual, battery door, and case separately." 

Buy It Now -- "...for twice what it's worth, or risk paying three times as much to stave off snipers."

[Mike]

Funny

[Bruce Horrocks]

Untested = "I couldn't get it to work"

[John Nguyen]

I'm not expert on this -- "I'll let you figure out what's wrong with it."

[Ron]

Didn't have batteries to test it -- I'm pretty sure it doesn't work, but didn't want to have to say so.

[Paul Brogger]

NR!!! -- "No Reserve. (Hardly necessary, in light the auction's outrageously high minimum bid!)"

[Andy Morales]

BIN $2500.00
HP 67, mint, full of cigar smoke, battery dead but included so you know what kind to buy, contacts clean shiny, manual worned, torn, broken ac/dc adapter with 440-220 switch (non-working). This is for someonw who can get it to work. As is pictured. Guaranteed zipper function on torn HP like case.

[Ron]

Yeah - Ilove those that say MINT, and then procede to tell everything that's wrong with em. MINT, except..........................................................................................................................................................................