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.
