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Let's have some fun! Please come up with phrases used to advertise reptiles for sale. The most "uncreative" or repetitive one wins! As I started this thread mine will be "My loss is your gain" (or its variations! :) ) Come on, be as uncreative as you can be! :D
 
"Smokin *name animal here*" Best i have ever personally seen to date!"

lol. This one always makes me smile, only because, when i look at some critters under those lines... I think... Uh... ive seen better. But of course, its all a matter of opinion :D
 
"I'm getting out of the snake business" blahblahblahblah...
"I'll trade for other morphs"???
 
How about "pictures do no justice"? :IThankYou
 
RARE hardly seen morph........

Or in the subject line. "Het blah blah blah blah" To find out that it is only 50% hets lol

Or Morphs inside to only find out they are CH unproven?

I can go on and on and on.
 
"Must make room for new stock"

"1 Day Sale" (Especially if this is followed the next day with another "1 Day Sale")

Any ad with one of these words in it:

Taxes
Wife
Moving
 
lucille said:
"Must make room for new stock"

"1 Day Sale" (Especially if this is followed the next day with another "1 Day Sale")

Any ad with one of these words in it:

Taxes
Wife
Moving
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You have to admit. They are the top three reasons to have to have a sell! LOL!
 
hhmoore said:
Doesn't that mean I couldn't sell this one last year?
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No, That means someone had one like it. They proved it to be a normal. So, Now I have to get rid of this thing! :rofl:
 
Thanks~ I've got the text for the next ad I run right here! I'll just run all these responses together and put a price tag at the end! LOL!

It's not a "for sale" gimmick specifically~ but the most overused only really STUPID people fall for that drives me nuts every time I see it (and usually proceeds a "sale" by the same poster) is

"Wanted~ unwanted reptiles!"
Or its many variations~ where in they offer to "rescue" your "Unwanted" reptiles........that they then sell next week.

Another Pet peeve~
When some jerk comes into chat and announces
"I've got _____fill in the blank_____ for sale!" (probably some poor "unwanted" reptile he "Rescued" yesterday) and when you ignore it the jerk repeats himself~ over and over...........
 
Cheryl Marchek AKA JM said:
Thanks~ I've got the text for the next ad I run right here! I'll just run all these responses together and put a price tag at the end! LOL!

It's not a "for sale" gimmick specifically~ but the most overused only really STUPID people fall for that drives me nuts every time I see it (and usually proceeds a "sale" by the same poster) is

"Wanted~ unwanted reptiles!"
Or its many variations~ where in they offer to "rescue" your "Unwanted" reptiles........that they then sell next week.

Another Pet peeve~
When some jerk comes into chat and announces
"I've got _____fill in the blank_____ for sale!" (probably some poor "unwanted" reptile he "Rescued" yesterday) and when you ignore it the jerk repeats himself~ over and over...........
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No problem Cheryl, there's no "royalty" for their use. Here's one more for you "need to make room"! ;)
 
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