What's the difference between salable and unsellable?

Salable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being sold; fit to be sold; finding a ready market.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Salable FCM was unaffected by mastitis at a proposed commercial dose (.6 g).
  • (2) Cows experiencing clinical mastitis produced approximately 341 kg less salable milk during the 60 d after clinical onset compared with projected production.
  • (3) To be salable, the lots had to contain less than 20 ppb total aflatoxin.
  • (4) The Amazon model, she writes, is “easy salability, heavy marketing, super-competitive pricing, then trash and replace”.

Unsellable


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Leaseholds started in the 1850s had five or 10 years left to run, the property was unsellable, no one would repair it.
  • (2) The village authorities have told farmers not to plant rice this year, the damage radiation has caused to Fukushima's farming industry would render any crops unsellable.
  • (3) After the 1981 riots many businesses fled, young people could not find any work and some properties were almost unsellable.
  • (4) Last night Salmond referred to a “range” of available currency options but there are arguably only two, a new Scottish currency or the euro, both of which were deemed politically unsellable last time round.
  • (5) Yes - but does that mean that Spurs consider Benoit Assou-Ekotto an unsellable asset – they have reportedly told QPR that unless they take the left-back on loan and cover his wages then they can't have Tom Carroll on loan for the season.
  • (6) While heritage woodlands should earn over £220m if put on the market, the report says the majority were "unsellable at a political and practical level".
  • (7) Her house, though, is effectively unsellable – which, in an area usually associated with snap sales and rising prices, speaks volumes.
  • (8) "The commercial logic in offering a combined price for anything is a direct acknowledgement that you are either looking for a discount over the individual valuations, or you are offering a 'persuasion bonus' by taking on board by taking an unsellable asset off someone's hands in order to get the other one.
  • (9) Here, I meet a tireless anti-HS2 campaigner called Ewen Simpson, another resident of an apparently unsellable local house named Helen Shaul, and John Keleher and Pat Mather, who breed ponies at their stud farm.