Listing definition....

[pursuit40]

To all selling on Ebay.  I have seen many listings using the word "lot" to sell a single item.  Sorry, but this is incorrect.  By definition, lot means three or more (but often less than many).

[collectfest]

Lot is used by many auction sellers to identify a listing. Auction houses from the beginning of time will list lot 1 lot 2 lot 3 etc.

Yes, some use it as keyword to get folks to look at an item. To say its incorrect is not incorrect to me.

Annoying to some who are looking for a lot, meaning three or more very true. 

[luckythewinner]

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@pursuit40 wrote:

To all selling on Ebay.  I have seen many listings using the word "lot" to sell a single item.  Sorry, but this is incorrect.  By definition, lot means three or more (but often less than many).

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Every in-person auction I have ever been to assigns a "lot number" to everything being sold, whether it is a single item or multiple.

Christie's calls a single item a "lot".

So does Sotheby's. 

[itsjustasprain]

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@pursuit40 wrote:

To all selling on Ebay.  I have seen many listings using the word "lot" to sell a single item.  Sorry, but this is incorrect.  By definition, lot means three or more (but often less than many).

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What's wrong with a 'lot of two'? You are stating that you have two identical items in one sale and not two identical items to sell separately.

[maxine*j]

In the auction trade, anything offered as a single unit for bidding is a "lot," so a lot may be one item or a group of items.  Put another way, If it's one unit on which people are bidding, it is a "lot" no matter how many objects it comprises.

Many people continue to use auction terminology on eBay, for many reasons -- some better than others -- and that is not going to go away.

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[janet9988]

sorry but

[chapeau-noir]

No lot of two? 

[katzrul15]

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@chapeau-noir wrote:

No lot of two? 

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Exactly - I use "lot" with 2 or more items for sale together.

What is disappointing about that?

[chapeau-noir]

By definition, a lot of three or more is a "Hugh Lot!!!!!!!!!!!"

[fern*wood]

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@chapeau-noir wrote:

By definition, a lot of three or more is a "Hugh Lot!!!!!!!!!!!"

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Don't exaggerate---that's just a "big lot".

[zero29zero]

I often search in World Coins; Collections & Lots. It is filled with single coin listing

I think maybe that's the kind of thing the OP is talking about, not auction lots

Started in auctioneering in 1978 so I'm familiar with the term, we used Lot # to keep track of who belonged to what

[heckofagame]

This topic seems to be drawing a LOT of attention

[maxine*j]

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@chapeau-noir wrote:

By definition, a lot of three or more is a "Hugh Lot!!!!!!!!!!!"

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Also by definition, is OP saying that Lot's wife was married to three or more guys?

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[zero29zero]

OK, so Hugh was one of them, what were the other guys names?

[chapeau-noir]

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@maxine*j wrote:

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@chapeau-noir wrote:

By definition, a lot of three or more is a "Hugh Lot!!!!!!!!!!!"

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Also by definition, is OP saying that Lot's wife was married to three or more guys?

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All of them named Lot - for that was her Lot in life.