Chopperlifter needs new motor (lol ebay auction)

http://cgi.ebay.com/Arcade-machines...127?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a67739c87

Talk about poor use of the English language. Run on sentences, missed spelled games and apparently "you must know if your buying this it works you just have to buy a new motor"

Ah come on man. You didn't use a period to end your sentence there, and you actually misspelled misspelled.

Now I'm not ragging on you; i'm just pointing out you ain't really Mr. grammar A student yourself.

Peace!~
 
i list all the time on ebay and alot of times you rush through the typing and never pre read it before listing it. So he wrote motor instead of monitor...hes not a smart guy but probably a nice guy :) And NO its not me or my machine..lol
 
So he wrote motor instead of monitor...hes not a smart guy but probably a nice guy :)

True but there is a difference between typing fast and not re-reading and just writing a terrible listing. If you can't even spell the name of the game which is on the marquee you got issues. The seller is not going to sell it more than likely.

I got a machine awhile ago in a similar fashion. Game spelled wrong, in wrong section and instead of being called "arcade" or "video game" for keyword it used vido. Good for me bad for them I guess.
 
i list all the time on ebay and alot of times you rush through the typing and never pre read it before listing it.

See, this makes no sense to me. If you're posting something - be it for sale, or just to a forum, you should always strive to make it coherent. And if you want to sell something, you really do need to be sure what you say both makes sense, and is true. Why would you pay for an eBay listing fee, just to throw up a mess of an auction like that? I see auction listings all the time that are similarly butchered, missing the little niceties of the English language like captal letters, punctuation, etc. Making your listing hard to read does NOT help to sell your item. It also doesn't help if you're attempting to ask technical questions on a forum, or, pretty much anything. It just makes you look silly.

I'm not trying to be all "spelling and grammar nazi", we all make the occasional typo and don't catch it, or mispunctuate [1] something, or even invent a word that doesn't even exist. These things are easily overlooked if you made at least an attempt to do it right.

-Ian

[1] Yes, this is a word. It's perfectly cromulent.
 
See, this makes no sense to me. If you're posting something - be it for sale, or just to a forum, you should always strive to make it coherent. And if you want to sell something, you really do need to be sure what you say both makes sense, and is true. Why would you pay for an eBay listing fee, just to throw up a mess of an auction like that? I see auction listings all the time that are similarly butchered, missing the little niceties of the English language like captal letters, punctuation, etc. Making your listing hard to read does NOT help to sell your item. It also doesn't help if you're attempting to ask technical questions on a forum, or, pretty much anything. It just makes you look silly.

I'm not trying to be all "spelling and grammar nazi", we all make the occasional typo and don't catch it, or mispunctuate [1] something, or even invent a word that doesn't even exist. These things are easily overlooked if you made at least an attempt to do it right.

-Ian

[1] Yes, this is a word. It's perfectly cromulent.


I do agree but in todays rushed life every second counts at least for me with a 6 year old. I dont have time to make sure my grammar is perfect and after all we are all human bound to make mistakes. But i too see listings that make no since sometimes as well. But a few misssing periods or caps or one wrong word isnt the world. Especially if the game that guy is listing is the one you've been looking for!
 
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