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SALAD

posted on 3/5/13 at 06:14 PM Reply With Quote
Ebayisms

Just seen; "I've tried to be as honest as I can".

So they've not been straight forward honest or even as honest as they can be (which in itself doesn't make sense).
No, they have tried to be as honest as they can but probably realised halfway through their advert that honesty is in fact not the best policy when attempting to verbally polish a turd, therefore resigning themselves to actually being honest and admitting to everyone that they've tried to be as honest as they can......but didn't quite manage it!

Any others?

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scootz

posted on 3/5/13 at 06:38 PM Reply With Quote
*insert colour* - 'the best colour'.


Erm, I'll be the judge of that!





It's Evolution Baby!

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MikeRJ

posted on 3/5/13 at 06:51 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by SALAD
Just seen; "I've tried to be as honest as I can".



That always makes me chuckle; I read it as "I've tried to be as honest as I can, but I'm a pathological liar."

"I'm selling on behalf of a friend" (my evil alter ego mwahh hahahaha!)


[Edited on 3/5/13 by MikeRJ]

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deezee

posted on 3/5/13 at 06:57 PM Reply With Quote
My two favorites (In so much they send me into a ranting spiral) are;

"90% Complete" Traditionally this means they have no idea how much work is involved

"Easily fixed for a few quid" What? If its easy to fix, why isn't it working?






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Benzine

posted on 3/5/13 at 07:12 PM Reply With Quote
"these are getting rare now"

"first to see will buy"

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onenastyviper

posted on 3/5/13 at 07:17 PM Reply With Quote
What about the "not {insert something which item is similar but isn't so it comes up in the search}"
i.e. Fiesta 1.1 not XR2

Or the bloody "L@@K"

Or how about "RARE" for something that is freely available





"If I knew what I was doing then it wouldn't be called research would it?...duh!"

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mookaloid

posted on 3/5/13 at 07:41 PM Reply With Quote
"not the usual rubbish"





"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."


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sjmatthews

posted on 3/5/13 at 08:01 PM Reply With Quote
'Advertised elsewhere' :-)





I'll be in the garage dear!

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Ninehigh

posted on 3/5/13 at 08:40 PM Reply With Quote
Also the {what you're looking for} wanted

The cars section is worst for that, sort by price and the first few pages are "We will buy your..."






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ReMan

posted on 3/5/13 at 10:07 PM Reply With Quote
Unable to test due to ......
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I tested it and it didnt work properly so I'll get rid of it on Ebay





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jabs

posted on 4/5/13 at 07:16 AM Reply With Quote
"small scratches which could probably come out with a good mop." - I tried T cut and it didn't work so really needs completely running down and respraying
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clairetoo

posted on 4/5/13 at 09:01 AM Reply With Quote
`1 careful owner' - not me , may have been the first one , or any of the previous 23...........





Its cuz I is blond , innit

Claire xx

Will weld for food......

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SteveWallace

posted on 4/5/13 at 09:45 AM Reply With Quote
The one that annoys me is when you are looking for a car part and you find one with a low buy it now price, but when you open the post it says something like "if you click 'buy it now' you will purchase a nut and bolt only".

Normally the prices are so low that its obvious that it cannot be the part that your looking for, but it can make it really frustrating to sort on lowest price first.

The other one is multiple posts of exactly the same (usually very simple) item but with a different make or model of car attached to it. These can run to hundreds of pages in some cases

[Edited on 4/5/13 by SteveWallace]

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Peteff

posted on 5/5/13 at 08:19 AM Reply With Quote
Descriptions written in big red capitals with no punctuation





yours, Pete

I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.

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