As an eBay user I encounter poorly listed items, things which have been put up for sale even though the seller doesn't know precisely what they are. This is fine of course, one should not be required to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of boot-sale junk in order to flog it, but there are those who decide that they will try and bluff.
I am a toy collector with, sadly enough, a grasp of trivia sufficient to tell at a glance what most things are worth, so I cannot help but get irritated when I see the words "rare" or "vintage" on an item which is:
A: Broken
B: less than five years old or
C: Both.
If you're going to have the dishonesty to pretend knowledge of something, at least have the foresight to do some sodding research first. An under-exposed, out of focus, wonky picture of a mangled action figure lying amidst the wreckage of your kid's playroom floor is not going to convince anyone of your standing as a scholar of '80s retro toys' any more than me shouting the word "Hot!" will convince anyone that I am in fact the sun.
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