Bad Spelling Pays on eBay

peebeejay writes "People say that as long as they're understood, spelling is unimportant. These people are unwittingly making others a lot of money online, according to this article in the NY Times (DNA sample and clean boxers required). So, aside from clarity and respect for your reader, there's another good reason to either spell correctly or use a spellchecker: get bidders to find your eBay items and give you their money! Or you can go ahead and see how many people bid on your 'labtop computers,' 'camras,' and 'earings.'"

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Interesting

[greechneb]

I find it interesting that below this is a story about Weighing the Value of Privacy, telling how people value their privacy, and then there is a post with a link to a site that requires registration - Ironic

Could it affect this item?

[AndroidCat]

A Canadian teenager who surrendered his website to Microsoft in a row over copyright is selling a legal document they sent him, on eBay.

Except he's probably got the papers from Microsoft under the spelling of "mikerowesoft". Go figure! (Follow the LOTD in my sig.)

Re:Is this some kind of troll??

[tiled_rainbows]

The term "British" isn't inclusive of Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland isn't part of Britain, but part of the UK. That's not some kind of crazy republican (as in Irish Republican) propaganda but the simple honest truth known to all who have ever stopped to read the words "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" in their passport.

I didn't know that we were supposed to be acknowledging that we are part of Europe this month, though.