Citations:prescratched

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

 * 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.
 * 2002 — Stacy Johnson, Life or Debt: A One-Week Plan for a Lifetime of Financial Freedom, Ballantine Books (2005), ISBN 9780345455642, page 118:
 * Buy your furniture and appliances prescratched. Scratch-and-dent can save you plenty, especially when you bargain down the price even more.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * That night, my daughter Caitlin ordered me a $30 preowned, prescratched replacement on Craigslist.