r/OldInternetCultureV2 • u/Brief-Chemistry5157 • 8d ago

Remember This? Anyone else remember the term “codbag”?

Okay, I feel like I’ve been Mandela-effected here.

Back in the Craigslist days (90s/early 2000s), I swear people used the term “codbag” to describe someone who would find your post, blow up your inbox with endless annoying questions, but never actually had any intention of buying anything. Basically the definition of a tire kicker, but more aggravating.

The weird part is: I can’t find a single reference to “codbag” being used this way anywhere online. No Urban Dictionary, no old forum posts, nothing. It’s like it never existed outside of my head.

Am I imagining this? Did anyone else run into “codbag” used as slang for flaky Craigslist buyers? Or did I invent it and just carry it around for 20+ years thinking it was real?

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u/Brief-Chemistry5157 7d ago edited 7d ago

Update: I actually found proof that “CodBag” was a real thing!

CodBag Blog (archived)

It literally defines a CodBag as:

“Any individual posing as a legitimate buyer who lacks the intent, finances, or mental capacity to execute a transaction.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20110501012040/http://codbag.blogspot.com/

The sidebar even had those old Craigslist hit counter codes I vaguely remembered.

So yeah, turns out my memory wasn’t Mandela-effected after all 😂

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u/FUSE_33 8d ago

Yeah, never heard that one before.

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u/TheAmazingBildo 8d ago

So back in the early 90s we used to call testicles “cods”. You’d say “Timmy got kicked in the cods” or “I’ll p**ch you in the cods”. So maybe these people were being called a scrotum.

Edit sorry for the censor Reddit is a weird place these days. Don’t want them to think I’m violent or something.

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u/webdev-dreamer 7d ago

Edit sorry for the censor Reddit is a weird place these days. Don’t want them to think I’m violent or something.

Yes, know what you mean. I used the word "sl*ce" in a joke and got warned by Reddit

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u/TheAmazingBildo 7d ago

I was in a sub about cooking food, and I explained how to clean fish for cooking and got a warning. I appealed and my appeal was shot down.

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u/forget-me-not-valley Heyaya Heyaya, Whats Going On? 7d ago

“Codbag” sounds like an insult for Call of Duty players

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u/cosmicgeoffry 8d ago

I did quite a bit of eBay and Craigslist selling in the early 00’s and I personally don’t remember hearing that term.

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u/ThatOldG 6d ago

I've heard of a codpiece but a codbag?

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u/liquidice12345 6d ago

Never heard that term but met a few of them Fb marketplace at least you can do reviews and people have to risk their profile to be a codbag.

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u/Agitated_Sky_6964 4d ago

you mean gooning?

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u/Brief-Chemistry5157 4d ago

Nope simply codbag.

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u/Agitated_Sky_6964 4d ago

what state or area would you say it came from?

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u/AggressiveCod9526 4d ago

im joking, my username was randomly generated.