eBay

a_c_green · ‎05-20-2019

I'm going to say, "Proofread your ads." This (below) just popped up in mobile format on my smartphone. Someone's getting a bit muddled up with their double letters. It reminds me of the time that the label printing page managed to misspell the word "Successful" in honking big type across the top.

turquoisetulips · ‎05-26-2019

@berserkerplanet wrote:
>>I have such fond memories of the dark ages myself . Tulips

Wow. And you still get around ok and aren't having too many memory lapses? Must be something in the water.

Yeah longevity runs in my family 🙂 Tulips

bearswatching · ‎05-26-2019

Mixing up you’re and your drives me crazy! An easy way to keep them straight:

If you said to my DH, “You’re crazy”, he would probably respond, “Yep, a little bit.”

if if you said to him, “Your nuts”, he would probably respond, “What about ‘em?”

🤣🤣

rustydalmatian · ‎05-26-2019

That's odd. I don't see and misteaks.

myjunqueyourtreasure · ‎05-26-2019

@a_c_green wrote:
@escuintla wrote:
So, even though I am terrible in the English language, I can spot a mistake almost immediately. The most frequent word that gets misspelled, as far as I can tell is "receive". I was attending this Meetup, and while I was watching a new financial power point, I spotted a mistake: they wrote "recieve"
Another word to keep a sharp eye out for is "inconvenience," as in the phrase "Sorry for the inconvenience."

This is probably the most frequently misspelled word I've ever seen in print, possibly because it's usually posted in haste after Something Bad has happened (e.g. out of stock, equipment breakdown, bank robbery) by whichever minimum-wage employee was unable to rectify the situation (e.g. refill the supplies, fix the copier, fire back), either scrawled in marker or printed in 72-point TIMES BOLD CAPITALS and posted on either the offending item or the front door of the bank.

My family has an ongoing project that we call the Inconvience Watch™, spelled that way in honor of the most common mangling we see, collecting examples of misspelled inconvenience wherever it occurs. Our best prize-winning sighting to date comes to us courtesy of the ATM at the Holiday Inn Lakeview in Impington near Cambridge (England), as photographed below on March 30, 2017 (with partial credit for not using TIMES BOLD😞

Holiday Inn Lakeview (Cambridge, England); Mar. 30, 2017
I can't add anything to that.

I would add to that one misspellings of the word Maintenance on temporary signage (and possibly for the same reasons) LOL

Reality is the leading cause of stress.

angelruszal-0 · ‎05-26-2019

Oh my gosh, you are funny.

a_c_green · ‎05-26-2019

@myjunqueyourtreasure wrote:
I would add to that one misspellings of the word Maintenance on temporary signage (and possibly for the same reasons) LOL

Yes! I would add that "preventative" maintenance bugs me as well, because I'm not into preventation in general. Both "preventative" and "preventive" are old variations of the same thing, and neither is viewed as technically wrong, but I've always thought "preventative" was needlessly fussy where "preventive" would do just fine.

books...forthememories · ‎05-26-2019

@turquoisetulips wrote:
@escuintla wrote:
I like to attend Meetups.

So, even though I am terrible in the English language, I can spot a mistake almost immediately. The most frequent word that gets misspelled, as far as I can tell is "receive". I was attending this Meetup, and while I was watching a new financial power point, I spotted a mistake, they wrote "recieve"

I asked for the phone number of the very boss, so, next day, I sent the very CEO of the company the picture via a text message. He told me that 5 of his high top notch financial gurus, some earning $1M a year approved the power point presentation.

Ebay is not strange to have so many misspells. I've seen one or two, but who cares.

There's a picture from a bank somewhere that posted this huge flyer on the front window saying "Annal fees"

Sir, would you be willing to have an annal review from us?

Oh boy! This is funny!

Thats hilarious ! One day I noticed one of our neighbors had a sign in their front window ,, it said '' Keep your dog off ARE lawn .. 🙂 Tulips

Well, ebay can't spell either...they left the i off "ruin"...

miketuch11 · ‎05-26-2019

Years ago, somebody told me to take pictures as if there were no description, and describe it as if there were no pictures. That has always worked for me.

Another thing I do is, I look at the ads for similar items that have sold, and title my ad accordingly. Copying is the best form of flattery.

The last thing I do is price price price. Is my target audience the younger BIN crowd, or older folks who like auctions? Do I price it as a bargain, or do I price it looking for max bucks? All these things you have to think about.

namele365 · ‎05-26-2019

@a_c_green wrote:
@myjunqueyourtreasure wrote:
I would add to that one misspellings of the word Maintenance on temporary signage (and possibly for the same reasons) LOL
Yes! I would add that "preventative" maintenance bugs me as well, because I'm not into preventation in general. Both "preventative" and "preventive" are old variations of the same thing, and neither is viewed as technically wrong, but I've always thought "preventative" was needlessly fussy where "preventive" would do just fine.

right or wrong, one that always bugs me is orientated vs oriented

abfabvintage · ‎05-27-2019

@escuintla

Always remember: I before E except after C. My 8th grade Nun drummed this into our heads lololol. Never forgot it.

I ain't got the brains to make this up (Fantastic Beasts)

abfabvintage · ‎05-27-2019

@a_c_green

LOL. My 89 year old mother always gets nutso when she hears Preventative and claims it is NOT a word! It is preventive. High level Crossword doer that she is!

I ain't got the brains to make this up (Fantastic Beasts)

cathmw · ‎05-27-2019

Not sure if this was brought up before, but eBay also has a grammatical error in their definition of GTC as "Good 'till cancelled" which they give on top of every one of my fixed-priced listings. They shouldn't use an apostrophe before the word "till" since till is a word, not a shortened version of until. I had to look this up online, so I guess I should cut them a break.

coffeebean832 · ‎05-27-2019

@abfabvintage wrote:

Always remember: I before E except after C.

Or when sounding like "A" as in neighbor and weigh.

coffeebean832 · ‎05-27-2019

@cathmw wrote:
Not sure if this was brought up before, but eBay also has a grammatical error in their definition of GTC as "Good 'till cancelled" which they give on top of every one of my fixed-priced listings. They shouldn't use an apostrophe before the word "till" since till is a word, not a shortened version of until. I had to look this up online, so I guess I should cut them a break.

Actually eBay uses only one L and the apostrophe is grammatically correct- 'til is an abbreviation of until.

a_c_green · ‎05-27-2019

@coffeebean832 wrote:
@cathmw wrote:
Not sure if this was brought up before, but eBay also has a grammatical error in their definition of GTC as "Good 'till cancelled" which they give on top of every one of my fixed-priced listings. They shouldn't use an apostrophe before the word "till" since till is a word, not a shortened version of until. I had to look this up online, so I guess I should cut them a break.
Actually eBay uses only one L and the apostrophe is grammatically correct- 'til is an abbreviation of until.

I suspect that they went with GTC, regardless of its questionable acronym origins, because abbreviating "Good Until Cancelled" as "GUC" just didn't have the same... appeal, or something...