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How hard

lovemyford10 — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:51:58 GMT

Was just having a look around and noticed this listing {I had better watch myself here } this is the heading gold tone fashion jewllery .In this day and age how can you make so many spelling mistakes or am i just picky on looking at all his listings spelling is much the same .I think I would be wondering if they could spell an address .I would be very worried .Would it be polite to tell the seller or better just to let them carry on.

If I was to make such mistakes I think I would like to be told

Re: How hard

davewil1964 — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:04:08 GMT

Unless the majority of potential buyers have the exact issues with spelling, they are unlikely to attract any sales. But given the grasp of English of the average person, they may have well hit on the best, current 'spelling' of the word.

Re: How hard

*crikey*mate* — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:05:20 GMT

English may not be their first language.

Re: How hard

davewil1964 — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:06:07 GMT

And if I felt a seller needed a heads up (which in my experience will not be appreciated) I would just drop them a line, not run it through a forum first.

Re: How hard

*crikey*mate* — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:07:57 GMT

"how hard"

"heads up"

*smirk*

*backs out of thread*

Re: How hard

*crikey*mate* — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:09:11 GMT

OP, just send the people with spelling errors a link to CS - plenty of spelling nazis over there to get em on the straight and narrow.

Re: How hard

repentatleisure1952 — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:24:12 GMT

G'day Crikey,what's CS? I'm a closet spelling nazi & might want to join! Lol!(Being born in chermany might help me!) The listing is good for a chuckle though-especially "no overseas byers".

Re: How hard

*crikey*mate* — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:31:41 GMT

It's another eBay Discussion Board, Tuck - Community Spirit or CS....

There's a few over there who are very serious about other people's spelling.

Re: How hard

phorum_junkie* — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:35:34 GMT

Wot iz rong wif the speeling?

Re: How hard

nevillesdaughter — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 23:00:30 GMT

Can those of us with apostrophe issues/obsession join too?

Marina.

Re: How hard

nevillesdaughter — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 23:05:51 GMT

And another thing - I'm sick and tired of having to parse emails I receive from eBayers before I have a hope in Heaven of knowing what they are asking - I swear I've received some that are an entire paragragh long, but only comprising one sentence!

Here endeth the rant (for now),

Marina.

Re: How hard

*crikey*mate* — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 01:54:38 GMT

@nevillesdaughter wrote:
Can those of us with apostrophe issues/obsession join too?

Marina.

ROFL - of course!

I have all sorts of issues and I play over there LOL

But it's just another eBay forum like these trading ones; it's on this site - it's for "non eBay related topics", peeps just hang out there for a bit of a chat. But I tell ya Marina, it gets **bleep** rough over there, you need a pretty thick skin - some days I'm left rocking ion the corner and drooling in my soup!

Re: How hard

nevillesdaughter — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 02:12:49 GMT

Maybe I'll just stay in my corner muttering darkly about the downfall, and feeling ever-so-slightly superior. If I need a frank assesment of my personality issues/hangups/obsessions, I have teenagers in the house, only too happy to oblige!

Cheers,

Marina.

Re: How hard

*crikey*mate* — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 05:04:20 GMT

You made me laugh Marina - Thanks LOL

Re: How hard

*crikey*mate* — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 05:07:09 GMT

B TW - I didn't swear up there.

I said the word which is the noun for where we collect water. Well. it's homophone, anyway.

gosh, I hope I got that apostrophe of possession correct LOLOLOLOL