Everyday, many eBay seller use these and other acronyms in their Auction Titles thinking that they are providing the most information in the least amount of space. On the one hand, they are, at least to the buyers who know the meaning of these groups of letters. To many buyers though, they are just confusing. I’m not saying that sellers shouldn’t use them. There are a lot of savvy buyers out there searching for these terms. I am just saying that for new buyers, a little help may be needed.

Whenever I have three spaces left after filling my auction title with keywords (another subject entirely), I will add “NR” at the end if it is a “No Reserve Auction”. Several times I have had people email me asking about the meaning of the “NR”. I usually respond by telling them it means “No Reserve” and apologize for the confusion. I am considering adding the explanation to my listings where I state it is a No Reserve Auction.

Now back to the title of this post. Do you know the meaning of all of the acronyms? Are there others that you use frequently? Maybe there are some you could be using to save space but didn’t even know about. You can find more information about these and more on the eBay Acronyms page.

Go, decipher.

Have Fun!
Mike

UPDATE:

2008 eBay Hall of Fame winners, Uncle Joe Adamson and Danna Crawford have recently written a book listing all these acronyms in a handy desk reference called Words For Auction.

At the time of this update, Danna is donating a portion of the selling price to First Book.