Can you make any sense of this ad?
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Keep it stiff

Original Poster:

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202 months

PGN

221 posts

243 months

Tuesday 29th December 2015
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In a word - no.
It appears that he wants to swap it for a mini skip carrier, which reduces his chances to just about zero I'd estimate.
It's a pity the advert's so poor because as far as you can see (which I admit isn't far) the car actually looks pretty good. Be interesting to find out more so update if you go any further with it.

droopsnoot

14,625 posts

271 months

Tuesday 29th December 2015
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Yes. It's not exactly well written and the heading has a significant typo in it, but the general idea comes across. Part of me wishes I had a surplus mini-skip truck though.

Pistom

6,410 posts

188 months

Tuesday 29th December 2015
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Don't buy a 911 from somwon with poor gramer and spelling.

Keep it stiff

Original Poster:

1,850 posts

202 months

Tuesday 29th December 2015
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Maybe worth buying this and offering a swap!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mitsubishi-canter-3-5ton...

carreauchompeur

18,318 posts

233 months

Tuesday 29th December 2015
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Keep it stiff said:
Maybe worth buying this and offering a swap!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mitsubishi-canter-3-5ton...
I wouldn't. It's not fitted with any Mexican food.

4rephill

5,165 posts

207 months

Wednesday 30th December 2015
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I could understand it (which in itself is causing Me great concern! eek).

It's also a bit strange! - Basically the advert says:

"I have a 911 that hasn't been on the road for 5~6 years available but I will not sell it, I will only exchange it for a mini skip truck with cash to make up the difference either way. The paints not faded - that's just the sun reflecting off the paint"

Talk about limiting your market!

As for the poor grammar, sadly that seems to be "Par 4 the coors thees daze!" and puts Me off cars for sale too!




uk66fastback

18,335 posts

300 months

Thursday 31st December 2015
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I think others have it correct. To own this you've got to first own a mini skip truck. Why he doesn't just sell it and THEN buy one of them is hard to fathom ...

I can't be arsed to read ads totally devoid of a) caps in the correct place and b) punctuation, but struggled through here. The red flag comes from the non-PC view that if you can't put both the afore mentioned typographic niceties in the correct place you really wouldn't have been educated to a level where you could have a job capable of funding such a car ... Running, maintenance etc. But I think it's of such an age that it may have a checkered history anyway (or not) and so te above wouldn't apply ...

Interior colour would put me off straight away though!