Learning the eBay " Lingo ".

Do you have trouble sometimes understanding when people gossip about eBay? Don ' t worry, some of the stale language is really recondite, and you can ' t be expected to note it until someone ' s told you what it means. Here ' s a little list of some of the most of service lingo to know, but you don ' t need to memorise it - stable the most common trite language is alone used relatively infrequently. Words. Bid: telling eBay ' s system the maximum price you are prepared to pay for an item. Dutch: an auction where more than one of an item is available. Feedback: positive or negative comments left about other users on eBay. Mint: in perfect nature. Non - paying bidder: a bidder who wins an auction but does not for go on to buy the item. PayPal: an electronic payment method accepted by most sellers. Rare: used and abused on eBay, now entirely meaningless. Reserve: the minimum price the seller will accept for the item. Shill bid: a affected bid placed by a seller trying to drive up their auction ' s price. Loiterer Mail: the post, which is obviously very slow compared to email. Sniping: bidding at the last second to win the item before anyone aggrandized can outbid you. Abbreviations. AUD: Australian Dollar. Currency. BIN: Buy it Now. A fixed price auction. BNWT: Tag New With Tags. An item that has never been used and still has its authentic tags. BW: Somber and Blanched. Used for films, photos etc. CONUS: Continental United States. Often used by sellers who don ' t want to post things to Alaska or Hawaii.

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EUR: Euro. Currency. FC: First Class. Type of postage. GBP: Great British Pounds. Currency. HTF: Oppressive To Find. Not quite as abused as ' rare ', but getting there. Extreme: New in Box. Never opened, still in its commencing box. NR: No Reserve. An item where the seller has not set a reserve price. OB: Maiden Box. An item that has its authentic box ( but might have been opened ). PM: Priority Mail. PP: Parcel Post. SH: Shipping and Handling. The fees the buyer will pay you for postage. USD: United States Dollars. Currency. VGC: Very Good Genius. Not mint, but close. The chances are that you ' ll find more specific neologism related to whatever you ' re selling, but it ' d be an impossible task to cover it all here. If you can ' t figure one out from your enlightenment of the subject, therefrom type the term into a search engine, followed by the word ' ebay '. The chances are that someone, in future will have seen fit to reveal it. While it ' s good to be able to understand others ' jargon, avoid using it unless you really need to ( for example, if you run out of space in an item ' s title ). Many people on eBay are not experienced buyers and you will lose them if you write a load of gobbledegook all over your auction. By now, you ' re well prepared for eBay life, and you ' re probably ready to get started with that first auction. In the next email, we ' ll show you how to dive in and get started.