{"id":9029,"date":"2010-06-06T11:10:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T15:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/?p=9029"},"modified":"2010-06-06T11:43:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T15:43:52","slug":"when-rare-isnt-so-rare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/when-rare-isnt-so-rare\/","title":{"rendered":"When RARE isn&#8217;t so RARE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok. Sometimes items are rare. Like test presses that are limited to 4. Or PX longsleeves that are limited to one dozen. Often though, items listed as RARE are not rare at all. Take this In My Eyes tshirt. The seller <a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?ff3=4&amp;pub=5574737960&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5336547836&amp;customid=&amp;mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%2F_W0QQsassZstewartjadamsQQhtZ-1\" target=\"_child\">stewartjadams<\/a> says <em>Up for auction is an In My Eyes shirt I purchased many years back &#8211; classsssic design from the legendary Boston area band.<\/em> Lets dissect this a bit. If his definition of &#8220;many years back,&#8221; is only 3-4 years, I wonder how he describes actually old shirts. &#8220;Classic design.&#8221; Yeah, this was a shirt done by <del datetime=\"2010-06-06T15:42:33+00:00\"><a href=\"http:\/\/shopshogun.com\">shop shogun<\/a><\/del> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thunder-lizard.com\">thunder lizard<\/a> nearly 6 years AFTER the band broke up. Not sure if that qualifies as classic &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?icep_ff3=2&amp;pub=5574737960&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5336547836&amp;customid=&amp;icep_item=120577489275&amp;ipn=psmain&amp;icep_vectorid=229466&amp;kwid=902099&amp;mtid=824&amp;kw=lg\" target=\"_child\"><img src=\"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/06.notsorare1.jpg\" alt=\"click to view on ebay\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or how about this &#8220;rare&#8221; Some Girls tee? <a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?ff3=4&amp;pub=5574737960&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5336547836&amp;customid=&amp;mpre=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.com%2F_W0QQsassZcrushedflowersQQhtZ-1\" target=\"_child\">crushedflowers<\/a> has this listed as &#8220;an out of press 2006 design.&#8221; Ok, right. Lets wander over to Deathwish Inc and see what we can find. Interesting. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deathwishinc.com\/estore\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=D&amp;Product_Code=TSSOM08&amp;Category_Code=SOM\">Look what we found<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/rover\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?icep_ff3=2&amp;pub=5574737960&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5336547836&amp;customid=&amp;icep_item=280515313684&amp;ipn=psmain&amp;icep_vectorid=229466&amp;kwid=902099&amp;mtid=824&amp;kw=lg\" target=\"_child\"><img src=\"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/06.notsorare2.jpg\" alt=\"click to view on ebay\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moral of this blog post? If you are going to describe your item, please make it accurate<!--more--><img style=\"text-decoration: none; border: 0; padding: 0; margin: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/rover.ebay.com\/roverimp\/1\/711-53200-19255-0\/1?pub=5574737960&amp;toolid=10001&amp;campid=5336547836&amp;mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok. Sometimes items are rare. Like test presses that are limited to 4. Or PX longsleeves that are limited to one dozen. Often though, items listed as RARE are not rare at all. Take this In My Eyes tshirt. The seller stewartjadams says Up for auction is an In My Eyes shirt I purchased many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[443,327,1435,586,1434],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9036,"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9029\/revisions\/9036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defunkd.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}