Hobby terms you don't like

[Nate Colbert 17]

This is not a phrase, but I despise people who knowingly sell reprints as authentic cards.

I also do not like keyword spam in Ebay like "PSA 9?" in a raw card description.

 

[uniquebaseballcards]

Unless a full-time dealer/seller is saying it: "buy low, sell high"

 

[A_Pharis]

"SP"

More specifically, the use of the term when ANY new product comes out. Automatically - EVERY auto/relic is an "SP!!!" or "SP?" for the first few days. It cracks me up... Vernon Well GU Jersey SP???????

A lot of big sellers do it to prey on early buyers, and it's as shady as using other vague descriptors that you KNOW don't apply.

 

[uniquebaseballcards]

?

A question mark is never a good thing in an auction title.

 

[hive17]

"Non auto"

as in: "let me screw up your Wil Myers auto search on eBay by including 'non auto' in my auction title, thus adding a bunch of results you don't want..."

 

[mlbsalltimegreats]

"Non auto"

as in: "let me screw up your Wil Myers auto search on eBay by including 'non auto' in my auction title, thus adding a bunch of results you don't want..."

Which reminds me the word "Patch" when its not really a patch ::facepalm::

 

[17ROCKIES12]

Which reminds me the word "Patch" when its not really a patch ::facepalm::

bat patch

 

[srstetler]

tough pull [Are we baseball card collectors or are we tractor pull participants?]

 

[Card Magnet]

tough pull [Are we baseball card collectors or are we tractor pull participants?]

You must not be a fat guy. It's so hard to carefully open a pack and get the cards out with these damn sausage fingers!

 

[predatorkj]

No that means you should doing **** and forget about collecting'

Sent from my VS840 4G using Sports Cards by Freedom Card Board.com

Nah...he's super in my book!

 

[sharktitanfan]

Sick.

This one is it for me. It drives me absolutely crazy.

 

[rsmath]

"1/1" unless it's truly stamped 1/1 - a card numbered 3/5 is not a true 1/1.

"hard to build" or "difficult to build" - don't blame me if you ripped two wax boxes at $90/ea to build a base set that I won for $15 dlvd and you probably only got about $25 for your relics/AU's from those boxes. Maybe you should have put "got reamed" in the listing.

 

[vwnut13]

"1/1" unless it's truly stamped 1/1 - a card numbered 3/5 is not a true 1/1.

lulz.

 

[Exposfan]

I gotta make money on it too!

I will never forget this one, the first time I heard it AND who it was from.

 

[TopOffLikeWALLACE]

the n word really irritates me

 

[Gwynn545]

Two that really bug me:
Ebay sellers that say a card is..."a must have"

and people on here that say, "...and it looks great with his brother!" and show two identical cards together... usually accompanied with some stupid smiley.

 

[TNP777]

"SP"

More specifically, the use of the term when ANY new product comes out. Automatically - EVERY auto/relic is an "SP!!!" or "SP?" for the first few days. It cracks me up... Vernon Well GU Jersey SP???????

A lot of big sellers do it to prey on early buyers, and it's as shady as using other vague descriptors that you KNOW don't apply.

for me, it's SSP. Thanks to the Topps Heritage Smoltz and Santana "SSPs" that came out in '08, every damn card that might be somewhat rare is now a potential SSP. I despise the term.