Poor grammar on E-Bay

[Manda1219]

Sorry-I need to vent...
Does anyone else get annoyed when advertisers use poor grammar? Now I'm hardly the grammar police, and I'm not always right, but some things just annoy me...
For example:
I just saw a post (from a Store, not an individual) which read:
"Get them now! Only a few left and then there gone!"
Notice anything wrong?
I also saw some car decals which read things like: "Your toast" and "If you can read this, your losing!"...Well...what about my toast? What about my losing??? Do people actually put these things on their cars???

Ahhh!! Sorry...needed to vent!!!

 

[IloveDMB]

Oh my, I know exactly what you mean. It's definitely a pet peeve of mine when businesses spell things wrong.

I hate going to a restaurant and seeing typos on a menu or reading an ad and seeing poor grammer or spelling.

It annoys me big time.

 

[epcotfan]

I agree. I won't purchase from sellers who can't spell. I worry that they won't be able to get my shipping address right.
I also get grossed out when you see a close up photo of someone's dirty hand holding an object. I've seen a few photos where the seller has dirty fingernails. Yuck!

 

[Disfan1]

Ack! Me too! In fact, I do a lot of copy editing for the magazine that I work for & you would not believe some of the errors that PROFESSIONAL writers make! Sheesh!

 

[Pop Daddy]

no excuse for poor grammer

 

[MerryPoppins]

I once saw the cutest dress on Ebay. The description said it had "crotched trim". (Can I say that here?) I believe they meant to say crocheted?

 

[browneyes]

Originally posted by MerryPoppins
I once saw the cutest dress on Ebay. The description said it had "crotched trim". (Can I say that here?) I believe they meant to say crocheted?

 

[Manda1219]

What sparked this thread was:
Last week in my legal writing class, my teacher handed out copies of our school newspaper. She then went through looking for typos. The majority of "paragraphs" in the paper consisted of ONE sentence!!!!!
Anyway-I was looking on E-bay today and I found so many typos, I wanted to scream!

 

[HugsForEeyore]

As another poster said, I won't buy from sellers who write wiith terrible grammer. It shows me that they did not take the time to proofread, and have no attention to detail. The only auction where I been screwed (lost $22) was with someone who wrote the auction with very brief descriptions, in all lowercase phrases, no punctuation, with many words spelled incorrectly. Never again!

 

[DocRafiki]

Originally posted by Manda1219
Well...what about my toast? What about my losing???

HA! You used my line!!! (I don't think people ever get it when I say that, though?)

"have I told you your special?"
MY special?

I worry about businesses that will allow typos on official ads, etc. My old boss used to type up memos and signs that he would post, and he had the most horrid writing "skills!" I became the clinic proofreader; I should have asked for a raise. I figure if the business doesn't even employ ONE person smart enough to know how to spell... what kind of business IS this?

Of course, my current corporate clinic sends out health reports that have a typo on the front page that drives me NUTS. It's something like "...your pet and it's health." I am embarrassed to send these out! I was scratching out the apostrophe for a while, but I'm just too busy with more important things to do that any more. Of course we can't just go into the computer and change it, and it has been that way for over a year! Maybe I should write the computer programmers at corporate HQ.

 

[Robinrs]

I must admit I got a DEAL due to a misspelling...

I was looking for a SpongeBob Squarepants video of my son's Video Now for Christmas. They were flying out of eBay. well.... There was one listed as SpongeBob Suuarepants..... that probably wasn't showing up on searches... well I got the one and only bid and GOT IT!!! All of the others had at least 10 bids!

Yuk Yuk Yuk!

 

[Cindy B]

I personally can't stand poor spelling or grammar either.

I also can't stand when sellers do listings, and its all clumped together, either in upper or lowercase!

I found a typo and grammatical error in the real estate listing for my mother in law's house. That drove me insane!