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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first trent lott

[Anonymous Coward]

ftl!

First!

[Agilo]

First!
Yay!

Sorry.. couldn't resist..

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

Frist Psot!!!

[Locky]

sorri lolzz coodnt resizt

Artickle text any1?

[Anonymous Coward]

Please?

this just in

[Ravenrage]

i guess i can throw out my dictnary now

one more thing i want to say i am tired of ppl pasteing crap that is so offtopic i want to kill them if you have something to say about dean or bush or whoever the hell else is running do it after posting an on topic reply like the rest of us. i for one don't think the offtopic mod is high enuf (electroshock anyone???)

if linux is illegal only hackers will have linux

Re:It works the other way, too

[liquidsin]

Nice sig.

Um, yeah...the lameness filter likes it when I type more than a two-word sarcastic quip, so that's what all of this is.

poor /.'ers f u cn rd ths u cn gt a gd jb

[grolaw]

THE ANSWER! /. folks never have enough money. Apparently the reason is a lack of interactive / mandatory spell checking.

If all of the coders on /. "compiled" and ran debugging tools on their posts on ebay the easy money would roll in!

Imagine the market for 1st Ed. K&R!

The subject line, save for the opening, was a subway ad I saw every day for a decade....apparently some dictation school. . .that /.'ers all attended!

So long, Karma. It was nice while it lasted.

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.)

Just to correct you on the Europe issue:

[reality-bytes]

The British [b]government[/b] are acknowledging that we are part of Europe. (Arbitrary decision which did not involve the voting public :) )

Re:Just to correct you on the Europe issue:

[reality-bytes]

Why do I always end up using UBB code here??

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.