Really eBay?

[bearswatching]

Just noticed the right-hand column on the Community page.

ABOUT THIs BOARD

...and increase your limit when YOUR ready. I’m not trying to be the grammar police but really EBay? LOL 

[doc-holmes]

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@bearswatching wrote:

Just noticed the right-hand column on the Community page.

ABOUT THIs BOARD

...and increase your limit when YOUR ready. I’m not trying to be the grammar police but really EBay? LOL 

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You are = You're

What's wrong with some people? And yes, I judge everyone who screws it up. 

[nobody*s_perfect]

Wow, that's terrible. I never read those things, so I wouldn't have noticed. Thanks.

[chapeau-noir]

I was an editor as well as a proof reader for years and we're just 'overhead' now - it's why so much copy these days looks like it was written by illiterates.  As well, it's tough to proof your own copy - no matter how literate one may be, the eye just runs over mistakes because you already know what it's supposed to say - one can't always put copy aside for days and then take it out for a fresh view.  When one writes for hire it's just bang out the copy as fast as you can - that's where the editor comes in. But hey, we're overhead.

[tyler@ebay]

Hi @bearswatching - thanks for the catch! I'm happy to work on getting that corrected if you'll let me know where you found it (there's a lot of pages with 'About this Board' on them). 

I found and corrected the What's New article that had the incorrect 'your' in it as well. 

Thanks!

[pburn]

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@chapeau-noir wrote:

I was an editor as well as a proof reader for years and we're just 'overhead' now - it's why so much copy these days looks like it was written by illiterates.  As well, it's tough to proof your own copy - no matter how literate one may be, the eye just runs over mistakes because you already know what it's supposed to say - one can't always put copy aside for days and then take it out for a fresh view.  When one writes for hire it's just bang out the copy as fast as you can - that's where the editor comes in. But hey, we're overhead.

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There are also apparent regional or geographic differences in style.

• American English would lean toward "proofreader" over "proof reader."
• American English would not use single quotation marks around the word "overhead."
• American English would not use a space-hyphen-space in place of a dash (typed as two conjoining hyphens--like so).
• American English would not consider the second sentence that starts with "As well, it's tough to proof your own copy . . . " to have been constructed correctly.

I try to read people's posts with a different eye when I know they're not American because of these apparent differences in the two written languages.

Both American and Canadian do, however, agree on the difference between "your" and "you're." 😊

[friskya]

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tyler@ebay wrote:

Hi @bearswatching - thanks for the catch! I'm happy to work on getting that corrected if you'll let me know where you found it (there's a lot of pages with 'About this Board' on them). 

I found and corrected the What's New article that had the incorrect 'your' in it as well. 

Thanks!

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If you want to be absolutely accurate, it probably should be changed to read "... when eBay decides you are ready."

Considering the number of posts from newer sellers asking about how to get their selling limits increased and find that they can't (for whatever reason), it would certainly be more honest.

[demeeg46]

Thank you so much.