Internet Seller Jargon Dictionary

Funkfingers

Here is a new jargon buzzword to add to the eBay Seller dictionary for over-hyped secondhand instruments.

Feel free to add any of the *special* words that you discover whilst trawlin' da 'Bay, Gumtree and Reverb.




UPDATE: In case the listing gets pulled, the jargon expression was "pre-takeover". The context was Parker Guitars. This expression may already have been applied to Steinberger and Tobias instruments.

SNAKEBITE

Authentic

ADP

 One of my favourites is 'untested', which means 'broken'.

bbill335

Sort after

JerkMoans

"Lawsuit"

lasermonkey

ADP said:

 One of my favourites is 'untested', which means 'broken'.

In my experience, every f**king time!

JAYJO

Will list as not tested as i havent tried it with Batteries.

   Broken to fuck!

JAYJO

Never been out the box.
 
So why have you got a picture of it next to the box.

hobbio

Selling for a friend, I don't know anything about x = broken and/or stolen 

JohnnyPlectrum

doesn't work - probably the fuse.

JohnnyPlectrum

missing a part that can be easily replaced...

mikeyrob73

Best guitar i have ever owned 


why the fuck you selling it then 

Fishboy7

 

", .... I spent all day in the guitar shop,…. tested 35 strats, … this one was special, …."  = ordered blind off the internet 

Stuckfast

"One of these sold for £x last week so this is a bargain"

= still overpriced, and the one person gullible enough to buy it now has one already.

flying_pie

"vintage"

As in it's 20 years old and the frets are worn out

Stuckfast

"first year of production"

= before they sorted out the problems that made it nearly unplayable.

Stuckfast

"needs new strings"

and a new neck

mbe

"I lovingly remember my dear old granddad chuckling as he played it muttering to himself. I think I remember him saying something like, "I can't believe it's not butter".

humbucko

"it's a 1994, which were one of the finest years for Gibson"
"doesn't have the neck joint issues that some of the Strats made on July 18th 1985 seem to have"

Legionreturns

"Unplayed" 

(Ragged to fuck, been finger plucked more than my sister)

Legionreturns

New old stock

(Didn't sell then, won't sell now, but god loves a trier)