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Sideshow#36

30-12-08, 08:55 PM

Dont you just love illeterate people. This isnt a dig at anyone who may have dyslexia, as I have it! :smt019 So there! But surely if you specialise as an ebay motorbike breaker, you would try and list items correctly and give any potential punters half a chance of finding an item.

Not that I am complaining as I have just bought a mint 07 Radeater... Notice the spelling for the sum of £30!

I love ebay! :cool:

maviczap

30-12-08, 09:02 PM

Ever tried this?

http://www.bargainchecker.com/

Checks for mispelt words on Ebay

Sideshow#36

30-12-08, 09:15 PM

Yeah i'd heard of that before but never seen it. LOL

He has so much for sale but its so badly listed. A real shame for him... bargain for the rest of us.

maviczap

30-12-08, 10:04 PM

Yep, I like the badly listed stuff when I can find it.

I always take care when I list item, but doing a load can lead to mistakes.

But if its your business then you should take more care :takeabow:

k31tha

31-12-08, 10:19 AM

www.fatfingers.com does the same job by looking for typo's

SoulKiss

31-12-08, 10:24 AM

Dont you just love illeterate people. This isnt a dig at anyone who may have dyslexia, as I have it! :smt019 So there! But surely if you specialise as an ebay motorbike breaker, you would try and list items correctly and give any potential punters half a chance of finding an item.

Not that I am complaining as I have just bought a mint 07 Radeater... Notice the spelling for the sum of £30!

I love ebay! :cool:

Same applies to people posting on internet forums................

The number of times people are looking for "sumone to help with there breaks" etc is quite staggering, AND annoying.

And we even have a spell-checker on-site.

G

31-12-08, 11:06 AM

I only just noticed that spell checker after you mentioned it ha, although its abit of a pain to install it etc

Dave20046

31-12-08, 11:27 AM

Same applies to people posting on internet forums................

The number of times people are looking for "sumone to help with there brakes" etc is quite staggering, AND annoying.

And we even have a spell-checker on-site.
Peoples dat call brakes 'breaks' get on my nurves. n the ones dat r just aeroplane rood when axin for help on da inturnip forum tingy.

SoulKiss

31-12-08, 11:41 AM

Peoples dat call brakes 'breaks' get on my nurves. n the ones dat r just aeroplane rood when axin for help on da inturnip forum tingy.

I had MEANT to spell brakes in that way originally - but typo'd - lol

Also, did you spot what I did with the "there/their" thing too :p

rowdy

31-12-08, 11:56 AM

Ebay is great, won a new seat for my bike, bloke had a 51plate got a seat for it but turned out to be for a pointy so it's brand new. haven't received it yet so unsure if it'll fit as mine is the k3 mongrel but for 5 pounds I can't be too pee'd off if it doesn't.

Dave20046

31-12-08, 12:00 PM

I had MEANT to spell brakes in that way originally - but typo'd - lol

Also, did you spot what I did with the "there/their" thing too :p
:p It's hard innit. I had to stop myself putting an apostrophe before the 'n'. I've got to admit after spending too much time on internet forums and people texting I've started to slack on the there,their's - even committing the crime myself...

maviczap

31-12-08, 02:13 PM

Same applies to people posting on internet forums................

The number of times people are looking for "sumone to help with there breaks" etc is quite staggering, AND annoying.

And we even have a spell-checker on-site.

+1 I've a team member who wrote a CV similar to this but in the literal sense, he wrote it as how he would actually say it.This was for a promotion.:confused:

My English grammer is bad, but I missed a lot of school after being run over by a bus & I never caught up. This guy says he has a English qualfication

Lord help us :(

maviczap

31-12-08, 02:16 PM

http://www.auctionsniper.com/

I use this for bidding on auctions when I can't get on a computer, I'm away from home or it finishes late at night. Its great, completely automatic bidding.

There are others out there too

sinbad

31-12-08, 02:29 PM

I give people the benefit of the doubt usually and put it down to laziness.

I saw an advert in the back of TopGear magazine recently though, for an insurance broker, some small business which "Specialises in High Performance Cars".

It gave the usual blurb, and then stated "ACCICENTS/CONVICTIONS NO PROBLEM".

There's just something too perfect about an insurance company which cannot spell Accident :)
Is it worse if they cannot spell it, or that they are so careless that they wouldn't check? Needless to say I purchased insurance from them right away.

maviczap

31-12-08, 03:22 PM

I give people the benefit of the doubt usually and put it down to laziness.

I saw an advert in the back of TopGear magazine recently though, for an insurance broker, some small business which "Specialises in High Performance Cars".

It gave the usual blurb, and then stated "ACCICENTS/CONVICTIONS NO PROBLEM".

There's just something too perfect about an insurance company which cannot spell Accident :)
Is it worse if they cannot spell it, or that they are so careless that they wouldn't check? Needless to say I purchased insurance from them right away.

Surely thats down to the typesetter at the printers, rather than the insurance company. ;)

sinbad

31-12-08, 04:10 PM

Surely thats down to the typesetter at the printers, rather than the insurance company. ;)

Well, could be, although I doubt a printer or type-setter types out every advert in the back of a magazine do they? Are they not just supplied with them by the companies placing the adverts these days?

Sideshow#36

31-12-08, 04:19 PM

I know what you mean about the work "brake." Because that was a double whammy on his behalf. I bought a "break plundger."

Answers on a postcard. Yes for the technically minided you may figure out what it is pretty quickly but if you are looking for one on ebay and type in the correctly spelled words you will never find it. I also bought a rear huger off him. Teehee.

maviczap

31-12-08, 04:57 PM

Well, could be, although I doubt a printer or type-setter types out every advert in the back of a magazine do they? Are they not just supplied with them by the companies placing the adverts these days?

Someone must at least proof read the magazine electronically before its printed, I'm sure that would include the adverts, otherwise it would be full of naughty words :p Like carp & feck

They'd get in trouble from the Advertising standards Authority if they allowed misleading adverts :cyclopsani:

SoulKiss

31-12-08, 08:42 PM

Someone must at least proof read the magazine electronically before its printed, I'm sure that would include the adverts, otherwise it would be full of naughty words :p Like carp & feck

They'd get in trouble from the Advertising standards Authority if they allowed misleading adverts :cyclopsani:

But Feck isnt a naughty word....