eBay ad speling

[anonymous-user]

......an if you can see passed the issues with wireing on the car you'll sea its a good bye....

Is there an eBay Fagin out there employing child labour to write ads?

[Axionknight]

People are just stupid, especially me, this is well known.

[PanzerCommander]

V6Pushfit said:

......an if you can see passed the issues with wireing on the car you'll sea its a good bye....

Is there an eBay Fagin out there employing child labour to write ads?

No people are just generally lazy/thick (sometimes it is obvious that English isn't their first language). It takes a couple of seconds to copy and paste the text into a word processor and back again to check the spelling.

Personally I won't buy from anybody that hasn't made an effort to make the advert presentable and readable, txt, l33t speak, RaNdOm capitalisation etc. are all turn offs for me when it comes to ads be they some 'attempt at being cool' marketing rubbish, or just a thicko trying to sell a toaster on ebay.

[glazbagun]

This doesn't bother me too much, except to make an advert hard to read and general aesthetics. Just because a guy got poor grades at school twenty years ago and has welded oil rigs for a living since, doesn't mean he's a crook or can't maintain his own car.

Shysters with good grammar, sharp suits and winning smiles cause far more damage IMO. I wonder if Tony Blair has an ebay account.

[philthy]

glazbagun said:

This doesn't bother me too much, except to make an advert hard to read and general aesthetics. Just because a guy got poor grades at school twenty years ago and has welded oil rigs for a living since, doesn't mean he's a crook or can't maintain his own car.

No it doesn't, but for me, it's a sign of low intelligence or laziness, so I stay away.

[soad]

Right - so I buy a "Kindel" instead of a "Kindle" and save a fortune?

Fat fingers, surely? Mine are powerfully built.


A friend of mine bought a bargain "Shrap" scientific calculator at a bargain price thinking he had bought a Sharp...

[anonymous-user]

Yes beware of buying 'crap fishing rods' using Goofbid misspellings as they may be just that!

[Spare tyre]

Not bad smelling, but just laziness

Daxara 106 trailer
www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/daxara-106-trailer/1138...

No explanation as to why the wheels are off the trailer, surely they'll get questions asking why, then they'll have to draft a response and ultimately put the wheels on to actually sell

[Moonhawk]

One word I see misspelled a lot is "know".

More and more i'm seeing people spell "know" as "no" (case in point):

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/23/hat...

How can you get all the way through primary and secondary school without knowing how to spell that!

[TheLuke]

Moonhawk said:

One word I see misspelled a lot is "know".

More and more i'm seeing people spell "know" as "no" (case in point):

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/23/hat...

How can you get all the way through primary and secondary school without knowing how to spell that!

Dont no mate its well annoying.

[anonymous-user]

An ad just highlights illiteracy which sometimes isn't an issue on its own. As above, the ads that just generate obvious necessary questions are the worst. Maybe it's attention seeking.