Ebay Translation Guide For Beginners

[wibblywobbly]

1. One Careful Owner = And seven awful ones.
2. Very Rare = Only 27,000,000 made in China.
3. Perfect Working Order = I will blame the damage on the postal service.
4. View Anytime = Weekends are ok. P.S. Auction ends Friday.
5. As New = It was when I bought it off the Ebay seller who bought it new and told me that it was as new when he bought it.
6. No Known Faults = It has faults but I don't know what they are.
7. Huge 1/16 Scale = It is the same 1/16 scale as all the other 1/16 scale models.
8. Delivery Only = Exhorbitant postage.
9. Professionally Airbrushed = Airbrushed by me.
10. Airbrushed to a Professional Standard = Airbrushed by me.
11. Paintwork could do with a touch up = Airbrushed by me.
12. Never abused = I didn't swear at it when it fell off the table.
13. Rare Import = No parts available to repair it.
14. Collectors Item = No parts available to repair it.
15. Our Best Seller = Our worst seller.
17. Will not end auction early = No way am I selling this junk outside of Ebay. I just hope you don't read the ambiguous description.
18. Please feel free to ask questions = You will be really sorry if you don't.
19. English is not my first language = I am English but will answer your question in broken Hebrew so that you can't understand it.
20. Tested before despatch = It was tested and it didn't work then either.

[tiger205]

Love it, very funny and probably very true as well, no 11 has to be my favourite




Alison


:-[ oops, that should have been no 12, not 11  (I cant count!)

[FireflyKeith]

NO. 2 for me, just about every auction has this in the title now

Keith

[BREL]

I like No.20