"Detailed" ... like a car dealership

I find the different listings that loosely use "detailed" or "fine details" to be rather amusing. I ran into one this evening on ebay where the seller apparently thinks that description is the same as "detailing" a car. Some of the coins still had cloth fiber sticking to them in the photos.

There was another thread earlier this week about the broad use of very specific descriptions (bu, choice bu, gem). What other somewhat angle-y descriptions/sales techniques are rampant?

 

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High grade is another term. Horribly misused.

 

Every time I see "high grade" to describe a coin with obvious wear(like not even AU) that was recently harshly dipped I die a little.
Sometimes I have to double check to make sure I'm not mixing up my Key Dates as well..

 

Rare.

 

For some coins, AU is high grade. But, yeah, mostly misused.

My favorite is "better coin," from a certain dealer on eBay who seemingly things every coin gets undergraded by the TPGs.

 

Here's what NGC said about detailed coins .
https://www.ngccoin.com/coin-grading/details-grading/

 

Putting a leash on a pig and calling it a poodle.

 

A Super Slider

 

I wish they'd just remove the "+" key entirely from keyboards.

 

"Great Eye Appeal".. I have seen some really horrible looking coins with that description

 

Yeah, to me +++++++++ means : move along.

 

MONSTER TONER!

 

I laugh whenever I see the seller say, "XF45 WITH DETAILS!" As if the details are an added bonus that come free with the coin. I've always wanted to list a coin saying, "AU details WITH FREE CORROSION!"

 

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or slab

 

Hey, at least then you've got a pig -- more intelligent, less allergenic, and, in the end, tastier.

 

There was a world coin seller on eBay that always described his AU~Unc coins as "bright, clean, fresh.."

 

I know who you are talking about!!

 

Which type of rarity "Condition or Absolute" per a TV personality

 

Rainbow.

 

One of the B&M shops here uses terms to represent actual grades on his ebay store.
Medium grade- means Fine or Very Fine
High Grade- means Extremely Fine
Very High Grade- means About Unc
BU - usually means Ms60-Ms62
Gem BU - is MS63 or higher
Every Peace/Morgan $ MS63 or above gets described as Gem BU FROM ORIGINAL ROLL
That has to be false advertising, he doesnt know for sure where those coins originated