Common
Terms Found on the eBay Bidding Board
From here
A
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. |