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mr_lincoln · ‎08-31-2019

So I went to send an invoice out of the Sold file and got the message below ... it begs the question, "what foreign country is eBay's programming being done in?"

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pburn · ‎08-31-2019

@mr_lincoln wrote:

So I went to send an invoice out of the Sold file and got the message below ... it begs the question, "what foreign country is eBay's programming being done in?"

Truthfully, it should read, "There is a technical error. Please try again later."

Those are definitely two separate sentences, not one sentence separated by a comma.

But, hey, who are we to criticize, right? Kind of a pot/kettle scenario.

slippinjimmy · ‎08-31-2019

What makes you think that any programmer in any country has a high level of competence in standard English grammar?

FYI - As far as I know all the programming is currently done in the USA, eBay had an technical center in India at one point but it was closed many years ago.

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pburn · ‎08-31-2019

I've always heard English is one of the hardest languages to learn. Heck, half of us on these discussion boards who speak English as a first language don't do all that well, either.

greg5000 · ‎08-31-2019

@mr_lincoln wrote:

So I went to send an invoice out of the Sold file and got the message below ... it begs the question, "what foreign country is eBay's programming being done in?"

Somewhere there is someone or somebody who is trying to understand something, so someday they can determine the cause of some of the technical errors .....

mr_lincoln · ‎08-31-2019

@greg5000 wrote: "Somewhere there is someone or somebody who is trying to understand something, so someday they can determine the cause of some of the technical errors ...."

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Some may agree with you and some may not ... and as Dorothy sang, "SOMEWHERE over the rainbow ... "

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chapeau-noir · ‎08-31-2019

@slippinjimmy wrote:
What makes you think that any programmer in any country has a high level of competence in standard English grammar?

FYI - As far as I know all the programming is currently done in the USA, eBay had an technical center in India at one point but it was closed many years ago.

Yes, it was reported in the Indian Times about two-three years ago. All of these illiterate banners are ours and ours alone.

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*madison · ‎09-01-2019

@pburn wrote:
I've always heard English is one of the hardest languages to learn. Heck, half of us on these discussion boards who speak English as a first language don't do all that well, either.

I'm quite good at spelling, but that's all.

I don't do that grammar thing though, I don't even know what it is or what it means.

poppyswag · ‎09-01-2019

There is some technical error, please try after sometime.

Regardless of where this originated, it's unacceptable communication. It shows up when sign in doesn't work properly too. Even though it works if you try again immediately.

Meanwhile, customers have been told to wait sometime before trying again because there is some technical error. Sometime can be 10 minutes, 3 days, 5 years away - or never. No hurry. Shop elsewhere. SMH

luckythewinner · ‎09-01-2019

What foreign country is eBay's Programming being done in?

I am a software engineer for a US company that uses US software engineers, and I can assure you that poor grammer and awkward messages are a domestic issue as well.

sharingtheland · ‎09-01-2019

The sentence (and I use that term loosely) is so wrong in so many different ways.

It's like nails on a chalkboard to me.

Just for starters: It should be some time, not sometime.

If I think about the use of a comma instead of a semicolon, my ears hurt.

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anthology-of-treasures · ‎09-01-2019

Customer service is clearly doing the programming from a series of remote locations around the world clearly isolated from the real world of online selling.

Right hand on one computer 's keyboard coding in BASIC (an upgrad from the punch cards used 2 years ago).
Left hand on another computer's mouse looking up eBay policy to supposedly answer your question.
Head swinging back and forth like they are watching a tennis match.
Headset phone picking up their Eastern European, Indian or Spanish accent while their ears try to decipher the meaning of your American slang.
Right foot ready to trigger a foot pedal alarm to tell IT its time to change their diapers.
Left foot free and ready to kick either of the computers which they are always complaining about loading too slow over the phone.

1tuna · ‎09-01-2019

I do not know that much about code work but I imagine it has little to do with knowing how to speak good English.

somebody that is proficient at coding is too good to waist on a silly detail like grammar

my buddy has successsfully developed a few websites and sold them

he told me that if you need 2000 hours of code that needs to be written its just farmed out overseas for half the money and you get better quality..thats what he does with needed work

you can go online and see the servers that ebay tech has developed and built for ebay

matter of fact I think they are for sale..........these are in the USA

much of ebays policy is shrouded in secret but there is a lot of info out there on google about upcoming software tools and so forth that are always in developement

some parts of ebays infrastructure are state of the art........the absolute best available

these tools can be rendered balky just by some bad coding for the end user

that would be us.........the end user............why is it a struggle to accomplish the most mundane simple task

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chapeau-noir · ‎09-01-2019

I do not know that much about code work but I imagine it has little to do with knowing how to speak good English.

somebody that is proficient at coding is too good to waist on a silly detail like grammar

You'd be surprised how much it has to do with how language works. It's why people who are fluent in other languages are hired to translate code. When I was writing Visual Basic programming the fact that I'm literate made a surprising difference. Nuts and bolts. Also 'silly details' like grammar make it possible to do that most basic of human functions - communicate effectively.

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