Some buyers are strange.

[inhawaii]

Purchased: 9-27-21

Shipped: 9-28-21

Estimated delivery: 10-4-21

Buyer sends me a message that simply says "i hope tomorrow".

Does it seem like fewer and fewer people know how to speak in complete sentences now days.

[byrd69er]

...or spell.

I'd respond:   I hope tomorrow two.

[coffeebean832]

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@inhawaii wrote:

Does it seem like fewer and fewer people know how to speak in complete sentences now days.

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So many buyers are using the app and they write messages the way they would a text to a friend. Sometimes it takes effort to figure out what they're trying to say. Your example is pretty clear so that should make it easier to respond.

[m60driver]

Don't know about you, but given the insanity that seems to be pervading this country I too hope there is a tomorrow.

[house*of*paws]

Hi @inhawaii / @byrd69er 

Texting + chubby fingers= few words + misspellings.

[inhawaii]

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@m60driver wrote:

Don't know about you, but given the insanity that seems to be pervading this country I too hope there is a tomorrow.

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Maybe that's what he meant .... i hope there IS a tomorrow?    😉

[maxine*j]

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@inhawaii wrote:

...  Does it seem like fewer and fewer people know how to speak in complete sentences now days.

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maybe or not

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[dhbookds]

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@maxine*j wrote:

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@inhawaii wrote:

...  Does it seem like fewer and fewer people know how to speak in complete sentences now days.

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maybe or not

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lol

[kensgiftshop]

It makes their brain hurt to much to think up a full sentence. 😀

[sin-n-dex]

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@inhawaii wrote:

Purchased: 9-27-21

Shipped: 9-28-21

Estimated delivery: 10-4-21

Buyer sends me a message that simply says "i hope tomorrow".

Does it seem like fewer and fewer people know how to speak in complete sentences now days.

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I can forgive people on the internet for not writing at the same level I do... I may skip over posts if I can't understand them, but I've never called anyone out on bad grammar/spelling.

But that's not why I replied... I work on a phone queue one day a week in a shared chat, and when we escalate a matter to a supervisor in the chat, most of us write one small paragraph with details, case number, what's going on.

We have a new member, and this is what I see in the chat every time she writes... each statement being it's own chat message.

"Case Number ..."

"Claimant unhappy"

"File handler not responding to messages"

"Wants to speak to a supervisor"

"Called three times already this week"

"Was told every day to call back tomorrow"

"Very upset over how file is being handled"

"Won't hang up the phone until a supervisor takes the call"

Like geez, write one paragraph and put it all in there and make it easy for any supervisor reading the chat to follow what the problem is. (And what I quoted is a short version of her messages... normally she goes over one full screen of chat messages.) They don't need a play by play, just the summary.

Anyway be happy it's just a customer message and not 8 hours a day of reading stuff like that.

C.

[dnasilver]

If a leader of the free world cannot speak in a complete sentence or even express themselves coherently, why would you expect others to speak in such a way?

[soh.maryl]

You're right about some buyers being strange.

For many of those who "don't know how to speak in complete sentences now days", I have a feeling it's someone for whom English is a second language.

I doubt if I'd be able to speak in complete sentences in Chinese or Farsi either.

[downunder-61]

Buyers are strange

Does it seem like fewer and fewer people know how to speak in complete sentences now days.

Buyer's may not be able to speak in complete sentences, but they sure know there way around the MBG

[evry1nositswindy]

Luvit ty

**Disclaimer--not the way I speak, write, or text!!

[sin-n-dex]

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@soh.maryl wrote:

You're right about some buyers being strange.

For many of those who "don't know how to speak in complete sentences now days", I have a feeling it's someone for whom English is a second language.

I doubt if I'd be able to speak in complete sentences in Chinese or Farsi either.

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Most of my English as a Second Language contacts online, on eBay or at work, write in sentences. When I write in Swedish or Spanish, I write in sentences, even though it's not my first language, and even though I do not speak the language well and don't know a whole lot of words.

The lady at my work speaks English as her first language, as does many other people I know who don't write in sentence form. What I find frustrating is getting text messages that are brief so that I don't understand what it is they are writing, and expend lots of time and energy trying to figure it out when a few extra words would have made it clear.

C.