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[perc-o-prince]

Hey Allen,

We prefer to get most of our B & O equipment at, wait for it.... the transfer station! Got the receiver, turntable and cassette deck. The deck (or is it the turntable?) needs a belt, I think, but they all work otherwise!

Though we did buy a pair of beautiful thin tower B & O Beolab speakers at the flea market for $60. The guy was going on about how much they cost new and that he plugged his speaker wires into them to test them and they were fine. Not possible since they're a/c powered speakers with special plugs! He never plugged them in and apparently priced them low enough that the buyer wouldn't be too pissed if they found out they didn't work! They sound great and remind me of the Maxell tape ad where the guy's hair is blowing back!

Gotta love it!

Chuck

 

[58limited]

I've seen "vehicle" spelled "vechile" no less than six times in one ad - the guy was looking to buy junk cars, or junk vechiles as he called them.

 

And I'll second, third, fourth, the comments about photos. If you are going to the trouble of listing an ad on the internet, post a photo <span style="text-decoration: underline;">AND</span> an e-mail contact. If I have a question I don't want to spend long distance fees calling you.

 

[perc-o-prince]

And don't forget that if you're looking for something specific that has a set number of 'drawers,' search 'draws,' as a number of auctioneers, dealers, and lay people not only sometimes make this as a mistake, but think it's actually correct!

Of course it goes without saying (though I will) that if you're looking for something 'collectible,' search 'collectable.'

Chuck

 

[58limited]

Chest of drawers = chester drawers

 

French provincial = French prudential

 

[bwoods]

Bedroom Suite, Living Room Suite, etc (pronounced "sweet") is often misstated as bedroom suit (as in suit of clothes) both in writing and verbally.

In the Midwest (or at least in Ohio, where I grew up), you often--unbelievably-- even hear advertisers say suit instead of suite on TV and the radio

As in, "this bedroom suit is on sale for $1200" instead of "this bedroom suite is on sale for $1200." Even worse, is when they spell it right, suite, but say it wrong as suit.

 

[applianceguy47]

I've seen Kenpool washer, with a picture of a GE. washer next to a Whirlpool dryer.    ?

 

I called an antique store once, and this young woman, sounded like she was still in high school, answered "Bradleys Ann-T-Ques".  I was like, did I dial wrong, what, a, what.  ?

 

[bwoods]

Barbara Whawha must be selling this washer

Anyone for a GE Waher? When you but the dryer, the waher is free!

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[112561]

Bill the radio star

One of the swelled heads I graduated high school with got into his dream job of radio after he graduated college. A few years ago he had an ad to read on air for a local acoustic ceiling cleaning service. The business had the clever name of "Coustic Glo". Bill, in his best Official Radio Star voice announced "when you need you ceilings cleaned, just call Cow Stick Glow".

 

My favorite Craigslist and Ebay ads are for Magnavox stereos, radios, whatever, and the picture in the ad is Motorola, because you know the big stylized M they put on their sets means it's a Magnavox. And the "stereo" is usually something from the '40s, long before they came out. The brainiacs in Goodwill on the rich side of town put out furniture described as "brown chester draws" "begie sofa" and such like.

 

[bwoods]

HEHE That doesn't surprise me, Alan. They must have written the attached ad.

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[112561]

Centurion, must be a really esoteric brand. And no picture either, not a good selling point.

 

[bwoods]

A Centurion "Sterio". You would think someone would proof their ad before posting--especially the Title! Maybe they have a Spanish accent and they think stereo is sterio.

 

[112561]

Yeah, I saw that it's a "sterio", and the only Centurion I recall is the Buick Centurion, which I would rather have LOL . When I went nuts one day and bought another Magnavox console from St. Vincent de Pauls a couple years back, the Latino lady in the store had it marked "Estereo" which I think means Stereo in Spanish . Or French

 

[davetranter]

@ Yogi

'Head out of ass extraction tool' LMAO... But seriously, you probably COULD sell quite a few....

 

[112561]

French Provinchinal 1951 Magnavox Stereo

Make a bar or a curio cabinet out of it. Yeah, right.

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[tolivac]

Magnavox Tv-Hi Fi-WHY make a bar or curio cabinet out of it since the machine still works-and works well according to the pictures.Continue to use it as an "active" stand for the new TV.IDIOT seller and his suggestion.

 

[foraloysius]

I got my Cuisinart foodprocessor dirt cheap because it was advertised as a Cuisineart.