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ABC.....Attorney Barnabus Collins...the resident Bidding Board Attorney and lawn mower blade specialist. Author of "The Nastygram Templates".
AUCTION EXTENSIONS (AE).....This is a feature of some online auction houses, whereby the auction is extended in the last minutes if bidding activity continues. It is also regularly proposed as a "solution" to sniping by anti snipers. I will let this link of Terrythetrolls explain more eloquantly than I ever could Why Autoextensions won't
work on ebay.

B
BAY.....What the ebay board spell checker does to the word "ebay" (see also speel chucker, spill cheeker)
BBL.....Blocked bidder list
BB.....Bidding Board
BIDDIE / BIDSTER / BIDMEISTERS.....People who post on the ebay Bidding Board
BIDJIT.....A bidding idiot...sellers beware
BIN.....Buy It Now
BID STALKER.....see Parasite Bidder
BOOK VALUE.....The current market price in the various collector books available to collectors (see also catalog value)
BRICEAN LOGIC.....Causes headaches. Completely illogical thought.
BROOKED....."I have Brooked the Bidding Board" Eclectic Wench and Ron gave us this offering after a user, ilovebrooke, spammed the board for a record 18 times with his post. He ended up breaking the BB for about 30 minutes while Katy came to the rescue and cleaned up the mess. From this day forward all clones shall be referred to as "brooking the BB"
BUMP.....To move a post back up to the beginning of the posting list by just posting "bump"

C
CARP.....What happens to crap when the ebay spell checker is done with it.
CV.....Catalog Value (see book value)
CLONE.....Creating multiple threads or posts from hitting "refresh" rather than your back button.
CYE.....Check your email

D
DUMB ON BRICE.....as in "I was all over that auction like "dumb on brice"
DRIVE BY POSTING.....See also Seagull. Poster who drops their rambling, ranting post on the boards then disappears, never to be seen again. Likewise solicitations for bids would apply here.

E
EOA.....End of Auction, as in "You numpty, you should always ask question before the EOA"
EBABY.....A term of endearment for the wonderful newbie or new user.

F
FB.....Feedback
FEEDIES..... Posters to the Feedback Board. Alleged to eat their young at birth. Posters take asbestos underwear with you.
FLIM FLAM.....Eirmis' very polite and restrained way of expressing her frustration at life.
FLYING B*TT MONKEY/FLYING B*TT MINKEY.....Trolls and other trouble makers who's only function on the board is to cause havoc.
FUGLY.....Well lets just say that's VERY VERY ugly...'nuff said
FVF.....Final Value Fee

H
HALFBALLER.....A bidder who bids in small proxy packages and returns often to bid again
HERE'S YOUR SIGN!.....A term of derision and a close friend of Snipes_to_Win.

I
IDJIT.....idiot
I'M CONFUSED.....code for: you're stupid and nobody has any idea what the f*** you are saying
IBBC.....Itty Bitty Biddie Committee.

K
KNICKERS IN A TWIST.....Australian and British equivalent of Panties in a Wad
KRISPY KRITTERS.....Pretty much describes you after you've been subject to a good old fashioned flame fest on an ebay discussion board.
L
LMAO.....Laughing My A$$ off.
LOWBALLER.....A bidder who bids in single increments and then gets upset when they are outbid. (See Nastygrams)

M
MAROON.....A total dolt. A shade of dark pink (see Pinks)
MIB...Mint in Box

N
NARU.....Not a Registered User....user has been suspended.
NASTYGRAM.....An abusive email sent to you by a losing bidder. Snipers are most often the targets. They are best ignored or dealt with with a smarta$$ email back (see ABC: The Nastygram Templates"). If they are particularly abusive report them to abuse@ebay.com.
NEG.....Negative Feedback
NEWBIE.....New ebay user.
NEWBIUS NIBBLIUS IGNORAMUS.....Scientific classification for the sub species of ebayer popularly known as the newbie. At their very best they are eager, conscientious and willing to learn. At their worst they can wander the ebay wilderness clueless for months. If they find the Bidding Board they are very lucky newbies indeed. If they stumble on some other boards they are in danger of becoming Krispy Kritters.
NUCLEAR SNIPE.....This is a very rare occurence. Most snipers bid their true max. But occasionally a couple of idiot snipers (a very rare breed) come along and bid an outrageous amount in the last seconds. Their bids meet and the result is a nuclear snipe. The proxy battle raises the price to an unbelievably high amount in seconds. Nuke snipers have very short lives on ebay.
NIBBLER.....A bidder who makes tiny incremental bids and many many of them to outbid the next bidder's proxy.
NIBBLED TO DEATH.....What happens to your proxy bid once a nibbler has done with it.
NO BALLER.....Someone that bids below a known reserve or nibbles and quits before reaching the reserve.
NR.....No reserve
NWT.....New With Tags
NUMPTY.....Evbay's word for idiot. We all love it and have adopted it.
NURKEY.....One who nibbles early in order to stake his claim on a widget and warn other bidders that they have a rival, the way a tom turkey will strut around the hen to warn off other toms. Often two or more nurkeys will get so caught up with focusing on one another, nibbling away and flashing their tail feathers, that a sniper tom can waltz in and swipe the hen widget from right under all their beaks. The nurkeys may then flap over to the BB in a squawking frenzy.

O
OP.....Original Poster (the person who started the thread)

P
PARASITE BIDDER.....A bidder who follows you around and users you as a personal shopper by doing a search on your bid history. This can be avoided completely by learning to snipe your auctions.
PDA.....Penny Dutch Auctions. A despicable style of auction where the sole purpose is to buy feedback to pad your feedback history.
PEBCAK.....Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard
PINKS.....e-bay employees who grace us with their wisdom every now and then.
PINK SLAPPED.....When you have been reported to and subsequently warned by, an ebay employee (see Pink, pinkie)
PREMATURE BIDULATION.....The overwhelming and uncontrollable urge to place an early bid even knowing it will get nibbled away by other bidders, ultimately leaving you unsatisfied.
PROXY.....The way ebay recommends you bid. Bid once and bid your absolute maximum. Let ebay's computers do your bidding for you.
PUT SOME MOXY IN YOUR PROXY.....Make it your absolute TRUE max.

R
RIGHT ROYAL REAMING.....Come to the boards ranting, raving, typing in CAPS, accusing, acting trollish and belligerent and this is what you'll get. Come and ask politely and you'll receive in kind.
ROTFLMAO.....rolling on the floor laughing my a$$ off.
ROTFLMAOPIMP.....rolling on the floor laughing my a$$ off, peeing in my pants.
ROOTLING.....I love this term given to us by Jo. One can rootle around a yard sale or flea market or even ebay listings. You could also rootle around an old attic or that junky knick knack drawer in your kitchen(the one with all the twist ties, rubber bands, dead batteries, rusty screws and old birthday candles). Get the idea?

S
SECRET DECODER RING.....fictional "join the club" ring bestowed on lurkers who come in and share their super first snipes with us.
SEAGULL POSTER.....a poster who flies in, drops their rant on us and flies away never to return
SEAGULL BIDDER.....Like the seagull poster, this bidder flies around the listings dropping bids on items then never comes back to check the results.
SCRUM OR SCRUMMED......A descriptive term for the kind of relentless bidding war that occurs in some auctions. All bidders desperately nibbling at each other to try and maintain top spot. SH.....Safeharbor. Where you go to report infractions of any and all kinds
SHILL BIDDER.....lowest of the low. A bidder who uses another id or friends to bid up their auctions for them. It is illegal and will get you NARUed from ebay proven.
SNIBBLER.....Coined by our resident sheeplover, kiwi_lawrie. This refers to newbies who, out of sheer dumb luck manage to place what at first looks like a snipe, but is actually a desperate last minute lowball nibble. A contraction of snipe and nibble.
SNIPE.....(see time conscious proxy bidding) A bid placed in the last seconds of an auction.
SNIPER.....Lives by the credo Bid ONCE, Bid your ABSOLUTE MAX, Bid LATE.
SNOWBALLING.....Like "Snibbling", this is also a contraction of lowballing and sniping. The bidder places a lowball bid (see lowballing) then will come back and snipe the auction at the end. This term was coined by Snipe_To_Win, who admits to practicing this form of bidding from time to time. Why?... We have no idea.
SPEEL CHUCKER/SPILL CHEEKER.....The ebay spell checker and it's eccentricities.

T
TIME CONSCIOUS PROXY BIDDING.....see sniping. This is the PC version of the word.
TROLL.....The bane of the Internet. A poster who's aim is to cause havoc and chaos often using multiple ids. They start fights then sit back and watch their creation. Ebay trolls are particularly bad as they can go on and interfere with the auctions of their victims.
TROLLOCITY.....Coined by Padmé Amidala. This is the level of trollish behavior displayed on the Bidding Board on any one time. For example "The trollocity levels are extreme/high/moderate/low tonight"

W
WELCOME TO THE DARKSIDE.....greetings and salutations to a newbie sniper who shows us his first snipe
WIDGET.....generic name for pretty much anything available on ebay

Z
ZERO WITH SHADES.....a new user of under 30 days with no feedback, or a new posting id.
ZERO SECOND SNIPE.....Yes! It is possible, is the latest word from the ebay computers techies. A snipe that will register with the same ending time as the auction. BINs do not apply.


 

 


 

 

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