Reply With QuoteFS: For Sale
FT: For Trade
FSOT: For Sale Or Trade
WTB: Wanted To Buy
WTS: Want To Sell
As a starter for you.
Is there a list anywhere of the abbreviations commonly used on SC & definitions of the terms? I have looked but I'm a techno-biff & can't find anything. It would be very useful to know what these codes refer to...
FS: For Sale
FT: For Trade
FSOT: For Sale Or Trade
WTB: Wanted To Buy
WTS: Want To Sell
As a starter for you.
To add to the list.
OHPF - On Hold Pending Funds
OT - Off Topic
Usual swirlies - Used as a hockey puck on a gravel drive.
Not bonding with it - Flipping for profit.
Not serviced in my ownership - Needs a service.
One in one out - The wife won't let me keep it/found out I bought it.
Not a dealer - Dealer.
Worn once (relating to shoes) - Worn whilst wrangling horses on marshland.
Last edited by jimmbob; 27th February 2023 at 14:58.
SS - Stainless Steel or Slightly Soiled
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Breitling Cosmonaute 809 - What's not to like?
Running well: if I said what it was actually running at, you wouldn't buy it.
Last edited by ColDaspin; 27th February 2023 at 22:06.
Originally Posted by jimmbob
Superb!
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If I may:
"Reluctant sale" - Desperate to be rid of this display-case barnacle.
"Vintage" - found it on some dead bloke I dug-up / more corrosion than RMS Titanic.
"Well-loved" - tarry deposits of wrist-fromage in every nook-and-cranny.
"Want what it owes me" - I paid far too much for it. / I also believe in Santa, Tooth Fairy, &c.
These are brilliant! Does OHPF mean that someone has said they'll buy something but the money has not yet cleared?
Thanks,
Yes, on hold pending funds
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Yes, the person has not yet paid being more likely though.
Some great responses on this btw, very funny.
OTFS- Off topic for sale - non watch related - either Belstaff or redwing
I only want what it owes me. - I have had the pleasure of wearing this for months whilst working down a coal mine, it’s never been serviced and is totalling sh@ged but I want my money back.
Pieces - items of ugly used clothing being sold as collectors items by a second hand clothes dealer.
FT - for trade, usually an air pistol for a camera or wax jacket
Signs of minor wear - worn out shoes with virtually no soles left and dog muck in the tread
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I’d like to keep it on the forum - I’ve tried and no one else wants it.
I would like £5000.00 for this fantastic watch and thanks to Eddie for this wonderful facility - I am a tight fisted git who won't pay into the charity fund and I am out to make every penny I can.
PS I might drop my price by £250.00 but I still ain't paying into the charity fund.
Price is firm - price will be lowered with each bump.
"One and only price drop = first of many price drops"
PM sent - low ball offer sent.
Still available - above low ball offer refused.
PM Sent = I've sent you a low ball offer
Lovely watch, great price! = I have a similar watch I'd like to sell soon
Tactical = Can be found at a local car boot sale for less
I would have bought it, had I just not bought X = I'm too poor to buy this watch, but don't want the forum members to know it.
Somebody please buy this = I'm too poor to buy this watch, but don't want the forum members to know it.
Slight scratches = Looks like it could have been worn during a high speed motorbiking accident.
It want back what it owes me = I overpaid, so you will too.
A personal favourite
Some genuinely funny replies there:-)
I lost weight - I bought this from an outlet to make money on it even though it not my size.
I’m not bonding with this month old Apple device (or my project changed), so I’m selling it. I get my hands on more Apple products than a Xinjiang Uyghur.
OTFS - often used for something so glaringly NOT watch related that it is totally superfluous !
"OTFS - Large butt plug and gimp mask"
(I think that was one of Mick's sales)
My personal favourite:
‘Selling due to unexpected tax bill’
Not sure the meaning but I’m sure it’s hardly ever due to an actual tax bill.
I must remember to use this one next time I post something on SC. Just for the sake of it.
There’s a glossary here:
https://forum.tz-uk.com/showthread.p...TZ-UK-Glossary
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
Rare hard to find piece = no one wanted it when new
Investment piece = I'm asking top money
In all serious, I've had an unusually good year so I genuinely have no idea what my 22/23 tax bill is likely to be (due to sit down with my accountant in April to get a better idea).
WABI - Worn And Bashed Insanely
Why do people rush to buy a watch on sales corner receive it and sell next day
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“Happy to send pics by PM” - look, this item is nasty. If I posted pics, the TZ hive mind would rumble me in an instant, so I’ll make up some nonsense about why I can’t post pics, in the hope that the poor sod of a buyer is insufficiently expert and I can offload this muck toot sweet.
GLWTS
Good Luck With The Sale - i need my post count to increase so write this on all sales posts!!
Jim
Or
"I want to be an influencer"
"I want to take part"
I used to work with folk like that Al. In fact, I still do!!!
Hope you’re well buddy
J
A few offers but nothing firm - nobody has been in contact so I will bump it without trying to sound desperate. Someone please buy this thing.
Tropical Dial - sun bleached and faded
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"Near Mint" - As in 'a well-chewed Polo mint'...
"Ideal Beater" - cheap crap that I regret buying when drunk.
"Dress watch" - scratch-magnet that's unreadable by anyone over 40.
"Would like to keep on forum" - forum bike that everyone hates.
"AD" - Awful Dealerscum.
"Bump" - the stench of death hangs over my desperation.
"Grail" - this week's transient infatuation.
"Limited Edition" - Limited Interest.
"New Old Stock / NOS" - Something so ghastly even the 1970s didn't want it.
Plus, shoes, knives, rucksacks, hi-fi, suits, shirts, jackets, air/pistols, furniture, cars, bikes, medical instruments, coins, ladies handbags, cameras, etc., etc.
Does anyone remember Carl Vandenberg Tooting Broadway?
Great shop.
Selvedge denim
Selvedge (or “selvage”) translates to “self-edge”, which is a way of finishing denim. Old shuttle looms produced closed edges to prevent the cotton material from fraying and unravelling. This technique also makes a tighter weave, making the fabric more durable and more rigid than modern denim production
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600 views and not a sniff.....bugger....
PM me in the meantime
Back up for sale in 2 weeks.
I always enjoy “last bump before ebay”, which actually means “I’ll continue bumping this without a price reduction for another three months”
Whats the charity fund?
Here you go
https://www.justgiving.com/team/tz-uk
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Will upload pics soon, meanwhile here’s a link to the previous ad when I bought it.
- I have since trashed it, won’t pay for Tapatalk premium, or genuinely cannot be arsed.
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'Sorry, not good with IT' - 256*256 pixel pics to avoid revealing the terrible state
Weekend Reduction - didn't catch-out a noob
Catch and Return - it's a shitter
Last edited by J J Carter; 28th February 2023 at 09:52.
All of these so true I've been sniggering into my coffee.
One not so much item of terminology more of an immutable law of physics/SC is the fact that no watch ever seems to depreciate regardless of how many owners, years/months of wrist grime and ham fisted strap changes it's been through.
No offers: After three days I'll consider ANY offer.
Cash raising exercise: Well, cash and a Seiko I can sell on later.
Normal marks from daily wear: Beaten to buggery.
Marks on clasp: I sit bored at a desk all day staring at it wondering how much it's worth.
Taken in trade: Yeah, I didn't really want it either.
Excuse the dust: My budget doesn't extend to a microfibre cloth.
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Or the forum sleuths will link it back to the eBay ad where I bought it for half the price I’m asking!
Ha ha ha!
Then you have WTB - Want To Buy but I don’t want to pay market rate for it.
Full Set - someone else can put up with storing this massive bleedin’ box and other pointless guff that gave me with it, because the Mrs is giving me an ear full about the wardrobe space and I can’t seem to sell the branded baseball cap or biro on SC separately.
Last edited by Sinnlover; 28th February 2023 at 10:05.
Full set: A hang tag with a grossly exaggerated price sticker on it and a circle of clear plastic, but no bracelet (as I sold it) or a filled-in warranty card.
Comes with extra straps: That frankly I wouldn't use to stabilise my dining room table.
Pulled the trigger: I don't know what the word 'bought' means.
"Catch and release" - I bought this whilst pissed on a Friday night, now have massive buyer's remorese, and hope that some other mug takes it off my hands.
Some absolute beauties here! Glad I asked, I was only expecting some of the abbreviations but the "real world definitions" are brilliant!
".. due to my strict one in one out policy" - ive overspent and now im sh**ting it that the mrs will find out before I replace the hole in our joint account.
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