Words guaranteed to devalue an auction

cazmanian_minx

i_love_freestuff wrote: »

comes from a smoke and animal free house....on a vintage brooch
clothes I fully understand but for things like jewellery what does it matter

Actually, I can see that one - I sell jewellery-making findings and someone returned a pack of 10 charm bracelet bases to me a few months ago. They'd been in her house less than two days and they REEKED of cigarette smoke, I had to bin them :mad:

forgotmyname

tiphany30 wrote: »

"l@@K" really annoys me more than anything. It's not like you would type it into a search!

I agree who would want to trawl through 39,692 random listings with the word l@@k?

Rhymsta

THINK

I can't believe how many times buyers say they 'think' something to be true about the item. This is sometimes reasonable but often it's just plain laziness. For example, "don't know the size but looking at it I think it's about a metre by a metre and a half."

and...

"I think this would work with..."