Would you buy from an ebay seller (or otherwise) who posted th following description?

[creskol]

 

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[Truth]

Lol they should call him The Butcher

 

[smokeythecat]

Possibly. Some people didn't graduate college (or high school). Ebay rules still apply to "not as described". I'd have to see the items.

 

[Tpmetal]

I went to college and still can't spell that well, just never been great at it. Yet all my english professors pushed for me to try and switch majors to english of some sort. Don't be to quick to judge; as some people struggle with one thing, yet greatly excel at others.(In this post I had to look up how to spell excel, professors, and almost spelled college as collage) haha

 

[Gare]

Look at it this way by all the MISS SPELLINGS look how much more attention. Heck it even got FETURRED (SP HAHAHA) on Treasurenet.com

 

[wainzoid]

They are not dumb, they are looking fo somebody thats dumb.

 

[eldorado]

Many , Many cultures in this great nation, if this is an american citizen, maybe hes just an old guy with no retirement, trying to make ends meet. Let the buyer beware.

 

[FreeBirdTim]

He won't be selling on eBay for long if he's charging for insurance. That's against their rules.

 

[Gambrinus]

The first thing I look at after seeing the item when buying on Ebay is the sellers rating if they had say a 100% rating and had sold 30 items I would buy from them.
If they are first time seller I pass.
Illiteracy [spellcheck caught me on that word] is everywhere, even the very smart people can have it.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

He's from Alabama. Probably had his teacher help him with the spelling. ;-)

 

[Kray Gelder]

He's from Alabama. Probably had his teacher help him with the spelling. ;-)

Now now, Charlie. You just insulted two groups of people. Citizens of Alabama, and teachers. My wife just retired from 38 years of teaching. Who taught you?

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

My wife is a retired teacher as well. ;-)

I had very good teachers back in the 60's and 70's. When it was possible to fail.

In fact, I taught as a college adjunct for economics and a "Math Practicum" for nursing students. I swear - one nurse hopeful never cleared her calculator in an exam and she filled in dosage problems with numbers in the trillions. She had no mental concept of what a million ounces or grams would look like. Totally vapid. She ended up failing - and I caught all kinds of flack from the administrators. One reason I no longer do that. Better that than waking up in a hospital with her holding a 55 gallon drum of morphine for me.

And, yes, it was a hell of a lot of hours and work for what it paid. I spent four hours unpaid prep or grading for every paid hour of teaching.

Long video, but worth it.

 

[Plumbata]

I buy what I see in the pictures, the description is secondary if not entirely irrelevant or incorrect (which is very often when buying ancient artifacts from Eastern European detectorists).

The terrible spelling may be disappointing coming from a fellow 'murican, but at least it is decipherable. I've seen considerably worse.

 

[creskol]

I personally would have a hard time bidding "with confadance" on anything found with a "medle detecter."

 

[suntannedgem]

wuz disa trk qwstton? If he seller has 100-200 positive transactions and no negatives yes.

 

[pepperj]

Seen just about as bad on this forum for spelling. I
'm thankful for spell check, and when it comes to sentence structure I get whipped.
Let's put it this way if we met in person and you slapped a thousand dollars on the table and said to give you an example of a verb, noun, adjective, and such-well I'd be beat from the get go.
It's a blank, couldn't tell you one example.

I've met folks that can't spell nor read very little, but they're very wise/smart in ways that no learning in a classroom could ever do, except the school of hard knocks.

 

[Honest Samuel]

Possibly. Some people didn't graduate college (or high school). Ebay rules still apply to "not as described". I'd have to see the items.

My family and friends are very proud of me for graduating from HCC in Bridgeport, Ct. in 1981, majoring in Accounting. I too have problems in spelling.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Let's put it this way if we met in person and you slapped a thousand dollars on the table and said to give you an example of a verb, noun, adjective, and such-well I'd be beat from the get go.

Pity poor Pepperj.

(Verb, adjective and noun . . . where's the money?) ;-)

 

[Honest Samuel]

I never purchase or sell on ebay. Not for me. Good luck to those who does.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

I have never sold but I have purchased. One of my passions is hunting deer with recurve bows from the 1960's.

Only once have I had a bad result - and I really can't fault the seller. I had one blow up in my face on the third shot. But you never know what a used bow has been through. I contacted the seller and he was good enough to refund half - and I was happy with that.

What I don't like is that ebaY has become a "Discount House" for new Chinese crap. Even counterfeit products labeled as the real thing (notably Zeiss and Leupold products).

I liked it better back when it was more like a garage sale of used personal items.