Does anyone have a gobbledeegook translator...?
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Does anyone have a gobbledeegook translator...?
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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
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
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)
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)
I won't do that again
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
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
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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
[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
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
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.
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
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.micheal1370 wrote:If you wont any more pitchers just send me you email address
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.bxbodger wrote:He's also selling a naked computer........
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.
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.
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.