Citations:prescratched

English citations of prescratched

Adjective: "(of consumer goods) having an undesirable scratch or scratches at the time of acquisition"

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• 1986 — Restaurant Business, Volume 85:

  "Everything came prescratched and dented, but it all works perfectly now," laughs Carey.

• 1994 — Amy Spindler, "Seeing a City in the Windows of Its Shops", New York Times, 6 March 1994:

  Here are prechipped, prescratched treasures -- medicine chests, porcelain dishes, canisters -- as if we are too impatient today to wear out our belongings ourselves.

• 2000 July 1, John Irving, “Re: Cardboard cases was: Koko Taylor Royal Blue”, in bit.listserv.blues-l‎^[1] (Usenet):

  This has happened to me with the Chicago/TheBlues/Today 3 cd set. I had to return it twice till I got one that didn't come prescratched at the edge that lined up with the tab line...then I transferred all three cd's into their own jewel boxes.

• 2000 September 12, Arthur Hagen, “Re: Visor screen scratches?”, in comp.sys.palmtops.pilot‎^[2] (Usenet):

  One of the NuShields came prescratched too, and another got scratches from cleaning it(!).

• 2002 — Stacy Johnson, Life or Debt: A One-Week Plan for a Lifetime of Financial Freedom, Ballantine Books (2005), →ISBN, page 118:

  Buy your furniture and appliances prescratched. Scratch-and-dent can save you plenty, especially when you bargain down the price even more.

• 2005 November 24, Bhasera, “Re: How long does it take ?”, in alt.guitar.martin‎^[3] (Usenet):

  For God's sake Man, you bought it prescratched so that you wouldn't have to worry about it!

• 2011 — "Writer unsettled by sudden silence when cell phone stops working", San Jose Mercury News, 1 March 2011:

  That night, my daughter Caitlin ordered me a $30 preowned, prescratched replacement on Craigslist.