From what I've gathered so far on the mistaken use of descriptive exuberancies is that they usually fall into three categories. A confusion between the words "old" and "rare." This confusion likely happens because of the mistake that anything of a certain era other than the current one is now hard to find. This leads to #2. A confusion between thinking that a local rarity is a global rarity. This confusion is made by people who believe that simply because they cannot find it in their local environment, means that everyone else cannot either. And even if everyone else cannot, then that there is a huge deficiency in the world. Simply trying to promote an item by overusing descriptive exuberancies. Being a person who believes in the general honesty of the majority of people. Therefore, I believe that the combination 1 & 2 are the overall offenders. However, ebay, being a selling site, I can very well imagine 3 being the highest on it's own. But...As always it is hard to say. Irregardless of the reasons why they are being overused, the solution is to simply to type in what you are looking for. h: It you are browsing, then simply type in a keyword, then sort by price. These are often great methods. Thus, it doesn't bother me. It's the nature of the beast and I live with it.
I'd have probably replied with this: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mint%5B4%5D but then again said person clearly wouldn't know what "marred" meant -ud
It's hard for me to come up w/ anything when I make the claim all the time that most people are idiots. He simply proved it for me.
A friend of mine bought an original VF2 cabinet few months back. It was in an ok condition, with some of the sideart partially destroyed, few scratches, slight discoloration in the corners of the screen and so on. The seller put up photos, but they weren't any good, so my friend mailed him asking for "detailed photos of the damage". The guy replied "WHAT DAMAGE!?"
