Hobby terms which irk you

Bootstraps9 · Feb 24, 2014

eBay 1/1 and rookie card

Everything is now a rookie card. Even though rookie cards have a nice little RC symbol, prospects are rookie cards, rookie cards are rookie cards, and I've even seen 2nd and 3rd year "rookie cards" or RC

Ogando, Michael Young, Leonys Martin and all Texas Rangers

Bootstraps9 · Feb 24, 2014

And I love that RCs have an image stamp now but when will people learn a Bowman Prospect card isn't a rookie card.

Ogando, Michael Young, Leonys Martin and all Texas Rangers

mrmopar · Feb 24, 2014

Pretty much all of the grading related slang, but especially poppage. i have been lurking on the PSA boards for a while, commenting periodically, and I see it all the time. I guess I don't get it and that whole segment of the industry bothers me a little.

Brewer Andy · Feb 24, 2014

Bootstraps9 said:
And I love that RCs have an image stamp now but when will people learn a Bowman Prospect card isn't a rookie card.

Ogando, Michael Young, Leonys Martin and all Texas Rangers

Having trouble determining if this is sarcasm?

Bootstraps9 · Feb 25, 2014

This is not a term but another thing that makes me hate the hobby a little.

Joey Gallo BC Auto/150 sold for 130
Prince Fielder Relic/auto booklet/5 is listed on eBay for the same

A perennial all star auto/relic book 30 times rarer has lower value than a colored auto of a guy who more likely than not will never be an all-star. Likely will never be a regular starter by pure odds and time to the league. It's the market and I don't prospect so it's okay but it just makes absolutely no sense.

Ogando, Michael Young, Leonys Martin and all Texas Rangers

Bootstraps9 · Feb 25, 2014

Brewer Andy said:
Having trouble determining if this is sarcasm?

Not sarcasm. I like the RC on base cards. I wish there were more inserts like there used to be without it, but base rookies are only the cards with the RC.

Ogando, Michael Young, Leonys Martin and all Texas Rangers

Crewfan82 · Feb 25, 2014

Bootstraps9 said:
And I love that RCs have an image stamp now but when will people learn a Bowman Prospect card isn't a rookie card.

Ogando, Michael Young, Leonys Martin and all Texas Rangers

It stems from the past when a players first card was his rookie card. A Bowman prospect card is a players first card so it is refered to as a rookie card, as a reference to said players first card.

Unfortunately, Topps/Bowman releases 6 different Bowman Chrome Prospect or Draft cards of almost every player now. I miss the days when a player had one Bowman Chrome prospect card.

Hobby term that irks me is ebay 1/1. No one cares!

D-Lite · Feb 25, 2014

Brewer Andy said:
Same can be said for "pack fresh". God forbid you say mint or near mint because some SOB is gonna be filing another chargeback when that card doesn't meet their 9.5 minimum grade sub.
So most of these words you can't stand are necessary because of collectors you can't stand

Exactly. It's self defense for sellers.

TBTwinsFan · Feb 25, 2014

Epic, mojo, L@@K!!!, non-auto (in reference to eBay listings), and eBay 1/1.

ChasHawk · Feb 25, 2014

TBTwinsFan said:
Epic, mojo, L@@K!!!, non-auto (in reference to eBay listings), and eBay 1/1.

Hot, must have for collectors, $$$$, w@w!!, et al

jrinne · Feb 25, 2014

People who refer to them self as a super collector.

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CatdaddysCards · Feb 25, 2014

Crewfan82 said:
It stems from the past when a players first card was his rookie card. A Bowman prospect card is a players first card so it is refered to as a rookie card, as a reference to said players first card.

Unfortunately, Topps/Bowman releases 6 different Bowman Chrome Prospect or Draft cards of almost every player now. I miss the days when a player had one Bowman Chrome prospect card.

Hobby term that irks me is ebay 1/1. No one cares!

Agree with this. Until 2006, the Bowman Chrome card was almost always the RC. The stupid RC logo crap just made it worse. Prince Fielder has a 2002 Upper Deck Prospect Premieres auto, yet his 2006 cards are his RC's. It's dumb. I still hate Bud Selig for it.

Mahoody · Feb 25, 2014

I can't believe no one has come up with this one yet ...... HOT BOX !!!!!

I can't stand it when I'm in my LCS and I buy a box ....say Elite and I pull 2 autos in the first 2 packs I open and the owner comes over and yells HOT BOX !!! You got a HOT BOX !!!

I feel like slapping the XXXX outta him because in most cases I end up opening up the next 12 packs with no autos and eventually end up with the 6 autos that were supposed to come in the box.

HOT BOX !!! Next time I'm throwing the box at him.......

rsmath · Feb 25, 2014

digicat said:
How about the words used to describe the low-end of the grading scale?

Good, Very Good, Excellent

Only in sports cards are those words used to describe something really crappy.

+1! I hate especially when you see a listing, the idiot seller says "card is in good condition" or "card is in excellent condition", the scan looks fine -- good centering, apparently sharp corners, etc. -- and you submit a question to seller asking what is wrong with the card and they reply back that nothing is wrong with the card.

my other pet-peeve is when you have a base card or insert that is not autographed and the item description has "not auto" in it. ****s my ebay searches for autographed cards of targeted athletes by also returning search results that are non-signed cards of those athletes because of the "not auto".

weight333 · Feb 27, 2014

This term doesn't really irk me per say it just conjured up some nostalgia...when I was a kid/teen we used to call a damaged card 'biffed'. Anyone else remember using this term?

digicat · Feb 27, 2014

weight333 said:
This term doesn't really irk me per say it just conjured up some nostalgia...when I was a kid/teen we used to call a damaged card 'biffed'. Anyone else remember using this term?

How long ago was this?

BBCgalaxee · Feb 27, 2014

weight333 said:
This term doesn't really irk me per say it just conjured up some nostalgia...when I was a kid/teen we used to call a damaged card 'biffed'. Anyone else remember using this term?

We used to say "yo, that card is pocoroba'd" instead

CubsfanP · Feb 27, 2014

Surprised nobody has mentioned "RAZZ"...

Can't stand when people say "were razzin' cards"

Also falling along the lines of "sick hit" mentioned earlier I personally can't stand "nasty"

weight333 · Feb 27, 2014

digicat said:
How long ago was this?

I'm 31 now so probably about 15 years ago. Maybe it's a Midwest thing? haha

smapdi · Feb 27, 2014

In my childhood, a "biff" was a fart...so...no.

In another thread someone mentioned being irked when a card is numbered #1 /*** or ***/*** and they put in the auction "first one made" or "last one made." I agree. First of all, who cares? Second of all, it probably isn't. If anything, card #1 is likely the last one made. You make 10 copies of something, you are probably making them all at once, and piling them up so the last one made is on top of the stack. Then you run them through the numberer, which is either starting with 1 or, more likely, controlled by a computer that randomizes the whole range of numbers. So chances are the first card made is the last one numbered, which, IMHO, is extremely unlikely to get #1 on it. Now, there may be a small premium to card #1 or #*** , but why would anyone care in what order the cards are made, even if you could know?

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