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Post by johnbear on Sept 6, 2016 11:20:19 GMT -5
I don't know why this hasn't registered with me before, but trawling though eBay today I noticed a listing titled "Vintage Retro".
It just made me laugh as I pondered that such a camera must be an old (vintage) model in the style of an even older (retro) camera. Haha! Plus, a further search revealed there are almost 800 of these "vintage retro" cameras on sale in the UK at this time.
I think I'll start signing myself as "vintage retro guy".
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Post by raybar on Sept 6, 2016 14:31:12 GMT -5
After seeing this post, I searched for "vintage retro" on eBay without specifying a category and got 736,865 hits. I scrolled very quickly through the first five pages (set at 200 items per page) and saw 999 listings for ladies dresses and one for eyeglasses. Searching in "Camera & Photo" gave 1123 hits - everything from photo albums to darkroom trays to cameras. Then I googled "vintage retro" and got "about 51,800,000 results." You'd think they could be more specific Evidently, "vintage retro," or using both words separately in a description, is a common strategy to generate more views when potential customers search than would result from only using one such word. Next we will probably see a long string of synonyms for "old" being used in description, like "Old, Vintage, Retro, Antique, Collectable, Classic Thingy."
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Post by johnbear on Sept 6, 2016 16:00:43 GMT -5
"Old, Vintage, Retro, Antique, Collectable, Classic Thingy" ... Haha, I like it, but you forgot to include "steampunk".
I went to school at a time when words had a specific meaning, and were not so loosely interchangeable.
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Post by SidW on Sept 6, 2016 18:23:14 GMT -5
It did at least get you searching more, and in that sense was quite successful. I remember a film somewhere, where Humpty Dumpty said "when I make words work harder I always pay more". Google must be very happy about all the activity you generated.
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Post by yashica1943 on Sept 10, 2016 14:59:43 GMT -5
I used to keep a note of odd phrases found on the internet and in magazines etc.
One of these sayings was 'It's modern without being retro!' (Really!?) Another was 'I'm not only speechless, I don't know what to say!'
Early on, when I put the words 'as new' on ebay they came back to me with a warning not to do it. I then searched and found 11,000 entries. (Why was I singled out?) Today I entered 'as new' on UK ebay, there were 1,766,551 such items.
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Post by hansz on Sept 11, 2016 4:12:20 GMT -5
Even on the very, very Dutch site marktplaats.nl the term "vintage retro" will generate 41,861 hits... It is everywhere:-(
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