“My girlfriend shipped your cards and I can’t find the tracking number. They are in the mail though.” - You’re never getting your cards - just open a PayPal case now.
My all time favorite:
*someone posts picture of extremely rare PSA 10 for thousands of dollars*
“Oh I have 10 of those somewhere in my closet”
I love this one too because you know that 99.9% they are thinking of a different card. To them “PSA 10 1st Ed. Base Charizard” = “Ungraded Played Base 2 Charizard”. Then they say “Oh its the same thing”
“Flash sale” - I screwed up and bought too many cards, but now my rent is due and I need to sell ASAP.
“ufs?” - I will offer you 30% below the last eBay sold auction price.
“only a few of these floating around” - This card is fake.
“I have it too” - My copy is in PSA 0.5 condition and is indistinguishable from a dog shit, but I still feel the need to brag about it on the internet.
“#investment” - I watched one smpratte video and now I think I’m hot shit.
My pet peeve is the low pop one. “These cards are all under pop 5!! Super rare!” It makes me sad to think that people may actually fall for it and pay a premium for a card that no one else would even spend the money to grade.
I found my local facebook group in a prerelease event. There the people offer the cards or put what they are looking for.
My advice: talk to the people, look on facebook pokemon+where you live, and check instagram. If you cannot find anything, you can take the initiative and create your own one.