Standard of eBay ads

[ChasW]

I had never been on eBay Motors until recently. I can't believe the presentation of some of the listings. I have never seen such lurid colours, mix of fonts and sizes in the descriptions. I expect the odd spelling error and lack of punctuation but some of these are just painful to look at and in my opinion a turn off.

[Perd Hapley]

[Howard-]

Personally I find the size 48 font in some listings useful. It's all too often that I find myself browsing eBay with a wireless keyboard and mouse whilst sitting 30 feet away from my computer monitor. The Pink-on-blue or red-on-yellow colour scheme is particularly vivid, and only aids the situation further.

[HaloGen8]

The general quality of eBay adverts is terrible.

Spelling
Grammar
Ability to describe

All just awful.

You would think that folk would want to portray their sales in the best manner. Maybe I'm just getting old

[surveyor]

Standard does not matter. All the sellers seem to be lying shysters also.

[MGgeordie]

surveyor said:

Standard does not matter. All the sellers seem to be lying shysters also.

I once bought a car desribed as 'truly immaculate' of evilbay.....it was the scruffiest, most dented & scratched piece of st that I have ever set eyes on!

Needless to say I didnt complete the sale on the grounds of it being woefully mis descibed!

[J4CKO]

I try not to get snobby and ignore some of the spelling/grammar errors as mine is not perfect and I hate that bloody minded picky thing, sometimes people get things wrong but if they dont seem to make any effort whatsoever it makes you wonder what the car is like.

Some ads just make me think the seller is an utter cretin, it doesnt always folow that people who cant present a good advertisement are selling a bad car or those with perfect spelling are selling good ones but there does seem to a relationship.