What key words make you run away

[seeker]

Ran this question a couple years ago, but thought I'd do it again with new blood.

For me, anything with "rare" in the title or text makes me want to run away and not even read it. I usually do tho, in that I-gotta-see-it car wreck kinda way.

[cmatthes]

"I'm listing this for my:

a. Friend

b. Neighbor

c. Husband

d. Uncle's neighbor widow

e. Son who is away at college

f. (insert random third party here)"

Bull$#!+.

[Willie G. Moseley]

"PayPal only"

[BadJaxx]

Vintage...

[kizanski]

"I don't know much about guitars...."

[Feynman]

"Over $XXX in upgrades," then trying to include the add-on crap in the price when it probably devalued the thing.

And, for Kiz, "Parker."

[atquinn]

There's really nothing that will make me run away from an eBay auction other than an obviously foreign-sounding seller. Still, if it's something I want and the seller responds to my questions to my satisfaction, I don't really care about the description. The more people it turns off, the better if it's something I want

-Austin

[elduave]

Reserve Not Met.

[Caddie]

All of the above posts plus "player condition" are very scary. Who is the player? Define player condition.

Is it:

- Willie Nelson's "hole in the top" acoustic. Is that player condition?

- is it Springsteen's Tele with the strumming groove (some would say bad patch of road) on the face.

- or EVH orig FrankenStrat.

- or Malcolm Young's Gretsch, with the empty neck-pup hole.

- or Clapton's Blackie or Brownie.

- or Rory Gallagher's Strat

- or the King of Player Condition Axes, SRV's #1 Strat.

WTF is player condition?

noonan

[belikerick]

Hong Kong

[kurtsstuff]

For some reason the use of the word "Minty" as opposed to just "mint" just makes my blood boil....I hate that!!

[kizanski]

"L@@K!"

"Gibson (or Fender) Strings!"

"Yea!"

"WOW!"

[atquinn]

Reserve Not Met.

*shudder*

I forgot about that one. I f@ckin' hate reserve auctions!

[kurtsstuff]

Reserve Not Met.

*shudder*

I forgot about that one. I f@ckin' hate reserve auctions!

Reserves are for pussy's

[killerteddybear]

I don't do eBay anymore.

also: "mojo". Can't stand it.

[Wally Gator]

"Plays like butter." Read two of those last night. Any elementary spelling mistakes. If you can't spell it do what Jim Gaffigan does and use a different word: Wedes, Wends, Wedns, next week...

[Scooter]

Ebay or otherwise, here's my beef: When someone is too lazy or stupid to use the word "probably" and instead uses "prolly".

Aargh!

Idiots!

[kizanski]

ANYTHING WRITTEN ENTIRELY IN CAPS!

"As Is."

"Hamer Custom Shop."

upstateguitars...

[MCChris]

"eBay" is the key word that makes me run away.

[kizanski]

"eBay" is the key word that makes me run away.

I was WAITING for that!

[Camstone]

Hammer

[zorrow]

"Just verified PayPal address" + "Ships only to the lower 48 states"

Being Canadian sometimes I ask the seller to ship the item to my friend in Vermont, but the combination above invalidates my chances to ship to the US.

[Feynman]

According to Ed Roman....

[Turdus]

"Plays like butter."

That's the one for me as well, as well as the alternative "Plays like Buttah" Shorten that a bit, and I believe the translation becomes "Plays like Ass"

[cmatthes]

Ebay or otherwise, here's my beef: When someone is too lazy or stupid to use the word "probably" and instead uses "prolly".

Aargh!

Idiots!

Ha ha ha!!!

THANK YOU for that!

Also, it is annoying as Hell when they just make stuff up or attribute star ownership or endorsement to something that is clearly not true. I've seen mid-70s Strats that were allegedly given to somebody by Jimi and then 4-5 paragraphs to follow about how he used to play a Strat once or twice and give it away because he was so generous and Fender would just ship them to him by the truckload (what, via TIME MACHINE?!?!?!).

There are really too many of these things to list, eh?