[Milsurplus] 2004 Annual Over-Used Ebay Term Count

[David Stinson]

It's time once again for our annual count
of the descriptive words
made meaningless by overuse and abuse in Ebay titles.

Term       Last Year   This Year

Vintage:    228227     421013
Rare:       182368     282727
Deco:       15501      222190
Mint:       144747     211060
Antique:    45956      89050
L@@k:       52905      82961
Special:    26215      33943
Collectable: (new)     32868
Unique:     19527      31024
Retro:       (new)     30350

Sadly, we can no longer keep track of the
amusing over-use of exclaimation points
(Rare!  Rare!!  R-A-R-E!!!!!!!!!!!!)
as Ebay's search engine no longer counts them.

Among radio listings, "vintage" is still the champ
with 2335 listings.
"Mint" has yielded third place to "Deco,"
which has come out of the bush leagues
to rocket up the chart.
The new buzzword, "retro," is one to watch.

Regards,
Dave S.