Rare, Old Retards on Ebay

This grinds my gears... I hate when I'm surfing around on ebay and you see catch words in auction titles like 'old' and 'rare' or 'vintage' only to find that the idiot listing the item has absolutely no clue what the hell he or she is selling. And I'm not talking about the honest-to-God have no clue people, I'm talking about the people who use these terms and then admit they have no idea what it is. So, I ask, how do you know it's either old or rare if you don't know what it is? I saw one stupid auction where the seller used the term 'medieval' in their title. I read the description and, I kid you not, they claim that this particular item is anywhere from the year 800ad to the 1900's. Hey, with an 1100 year window, they can't be wrong, right? The other beautiful thing about that particular auction that not only used the word 'medieval' but rare and old, is that the starting price, with no reserve, was .99 cents. Wow, you must think highly of your rare, old, medieval piece of shit.

I just got done looking at yet another retard's auction. (Yeah, I'm using the word 'retard' get over it!) The title reads: "Rare, Very Old Unknown Patch - Army? Sports? Coat?" Well if it's unknown, how do you know it's rare? Hell, you're not even sure what category to put it under but you claim it's rare. The title should have been "Unknown Piece of Shit Patch - You decide".

Think, people....think before you list an auction.

I had to email a lady one time because she used the words "Rare Marine Corps WW2 Dress Blues". I just couldn't stand it any longer. I told her that first of all, a WW2 Marine Corps Dress Blues is not rare. Second of all, her item was not from WW2 and I explained in a nice way why it wasn't a WW2 tunic. She accepted my explanation and told me "...that's what the guy who sold it to me said it was." And this brings me to my next gear grinder about ebay...

You have all these flea market commandos, and yard sale mutants cruising around and buying up everything under the sun with visions of making a fortune on ebay. Hey, morons, here's a bit of advice. Specialize in one or two things. Learn about the items you want to buy and sell and then pursue it. Don't go nuts buying everything and knowing nothing. You will get burned!

At a live auction over in West Chester, PA. I got in a bidding war with these two nutty broads over some WW2 uniforms. I won the auction and as I was leaving they approached me and asked, "Are those civil war uniforms?" My head almost exploded. I was very nice and simply replied no when I felt like saying, "You stupid bitches! You don't even know what the hell you were bidding on yet you felt compelled to bid up my price in the process?" I felt like whipping them with the belt off my trousers.

In conclusion to this long-winded post. If you don't know what it is, don't buy it. If you don't know what it is, don't bullshit the public, state so and sell it as such. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. But more often, if you do a little research you'll come out on top.

In the meantime, I have a rare, old, medieval, vintage DVD player I have to list. LOL!