Does anyone have a gobbledeegook translator...?

andmcit · Unread post by **andmcit** » 16 Mar 2006, 21:06

http://tinyurl.com/eebnq

Over the years I've got used to incomprehensible listings on ebay but does anyone have a spare Citroen anteater!?

Sad really isn't it - you could give him the benefit of the doubt and say he's foreign, but I feel from the description it's just may be due to other reasons....

It's beyond defence when you realise that ebay actually offers a spell checker before you list an item...

Give micheal an email if you want more pitchers...

Andrew

mpr1956 · Unread post by **mpr1956** » 16 Mar 2006, 21:29

Now there's a long term project if ever I saw one.. An anteater (citroen or otherwise) would be handy to clear the bugs from the upholstery I would imagine!
just when I think the whole world is becoming a grey, boring and dreary place, this chap comes along and brightens my day by reminding me how diverse the human race is! -I've been trying to work out what the chap means re the corporate insectivore.. any ideas anyone? ( Michael has a good feedback record anyway, comms difficulties or not)

bxbodger · Unread post by **bxbodger** » 16 Mar 2006, 23:13

He's also selling a naked computer........

andmcit · Unread post by **andmcit** » 16 Mar 2006, 23:20

With the Xm's auction he sounds quite lucid and I can actually understand him at the start, but it appears he's finished a bottle of Vodka by the time he's got to the end!!

He's had the engine rebulit and the hydraulics done and has a £2000 receipt for all the work!? Bargain, just dont know where I'd get the anteater from...

Andrew

Unread post by **Peter.N.** » 16 Mar 2006, 23:26

Sounds like Stanley Unwin, if anyone remembers him!

Paul Mi16 · Unread post by **Paul Mi16** » 17 Mar 2006, 08:46

Its worth the £10 starting price for parts, especially if you get all the video tapes on the passenger seat. Not sure about the hoe and the door though!

tomsheppard · Unread post by **tomsheppard** » 17 Mar 2006, 08:55

I gave up on the Citroen anteater. Too much like aardvark; (though a little aardvark never killed anybody...)

citronut · Unread post by **citronut** » 17 Mar 2006, 09:37

its a shame when some people think they can get by with brains alone,when they just need to add some common sence,whilst you can get by with just common sence alone,besides every body on the planet has one form of dislecsyer or another
regards malcolm

andmcit · Unread post by **andmcit** » 17 Mar 2006, 10:05

I agree, It actually doesn't look as terrible a project as first impressions indicate
[or is it just me?]

The headlight panel seems to be there and the radiator looks intact -
he's lost the lights and the nosecone with what's left of the bumper
hanging in there!! Guess you could reasemble an interesting jigsaw
puzzle and drive it home!!

He's had the engine rebulit and the hydraulics done and has a £2000
receipt for all the work!? Bargain, just dont know where I'd get the
anteater from...

In the listing he sounds quite lucid and I can actually understand him at the start, but it appears he's finished a bottle of Vodka by the time he's got to
the end!! Do you think that maybe he got locked out of the car on another of his Vodka induced benders?

The break the door handle AND the tailgate lip you'll have to be on
something!!

Andrew

ACTIVE8 · Unread post by **ACTIVE8** » 21 Mar 2006, 10:25

Overall the auction makes for interesting reading (entertainment) due to the poor communication.

Although he managed to spell the word imbecile correctly, so he has done well to do that, and it's a word that has a french connection tracing it back to it's roots. (I.E. etymology)

This is a quote from the advert

micheal1370 wrote:If you wont any more pitchers just send me you email address

Somehow I think anyone who does send him their email address, will have a problem with receiving it, due to the

bade spilling from this seller. Looks like he

woz tort Engliz bye Ali G.

bxbodger wrote:He's also selling a naked computer........

Well it would appear he has a problem with plastic casings, I.E no computer tower/casing, and the damaged nose cone on the car.

Reading through the feedback there are replies which are as poorly communicated as the auction, maybe he has been bidding on his own stuff. As for the feedback from one person who said that the communication was good,

well they must have a "goobledeegook translator" that this seller sold them previously.

The anteater seems to have disappeared due to the auction being revised, although the revision didn't go far enough to attend to all the communication problems with the listing.

Maybe the video on the passenger seat is about DIY XM repair, and he has not got around to watching it.

As for the damage on the tailgate, and to the door handle it's like as if he lost it Basil Fawlty style, and started to attack the car.

There is also still only currently one bid on the car which is probably of dubious origin.

bxbodger · Unread post by **bxbodger** » 21 Mar 2006, 12:34

Now the description is revised, I believe I know the answer!!!!

ANTEATER translates as.........ALTERNATOR

mezuk04 · Unread post by **mezuk04** » 21 Mar 2006, 13:20

You think he would have corrected the countless others too

ACTIVE8 · Unread post by **ACTIVE8** » 22 Mar 2006, 12:06

Well the auction appears to have been edited yet again, because all the odd excessive spaces have now gone. Although the spelling, including missing letters has still not been attended to.

Also now it appears the auction has been ended early.

Maybe he's thrown the rattle out of the pram,

and doesn't want to sell it anymore, it's mine, and I want to play with it. So there.

As for the one bid that it attracted that has now gone. It has vanished !
Now you see me, now you don't it's magic ! Where's it gone ?

No one knows. No one cares.

The seller probably has

a certain figure in mind, although when this damaged jigsaw was seen
by others on ebay, I think they judged it to be worth(less).

It's those damm anteaters,

those aardvarks tend to have a negative effect on value.