Adverts, what were they thinking...

[dikkehemaworst]

The search for interesting stuff is a continuous cycle in my life , because the hunt is better then the catch..
But sometimes you find some adverts with cars photographed a million miles away, just a photo of a wheel or worse..
I saw this one this morning and thought, what were they thinking? Makes me smile though.
So, have you guys seen one lately?




It says, volkswagen beetle   in the advert ( in dutch )

[dikkehemaworst]

And this one!

What were they thinking....

[braaap]

There is a game for children with the task to find a person in a picture full of everything possible, I think it was something like "Where is Waldo?".

Perhaps that's what the second seller had in mind?

[dikkehemaworst]

This one!

English isn't my first language, but i think it's difficult even for you guys, to tell what he means...



And the epic sentence : rolls forward when pushed....

[henspeed]

I think he means, starts, but transmission problem, possibly clutch master cylinder.

[misterm]

Possibly, but highly unlikely. I recover lots of Trafic/Vivaro/Primastar vans with the clutch pedal on the floor. The concentric slave being the usual culprit. So, although the clutch assembly itself may well be in a usable state, the gearbox has to come out anyway to change the slave. I tell people I know that run one, to carry a small bottle of brake fluid in the van. Topping up and pumping the pedal will usually get them home. Not that it helps much with the fix, just saves the inconvenience of having to be recovered.

From the way the advert is written, I would guess it is one of our residents that doesn't have English as a first language. But his English is a hundred times better than my Romanian/Polish.

[dikkehemaworst]

[akku]

Marketplace in particular is full of dreadful adverts. People who don't know what they are selling, or how to describe or photograph it. Plenty of scammers. Marketplace itself is an awful mechanism because when I search for "Buick Riviera" for example it brings me adverts for BMW 3 series, Citroen C4, MINI or anything else, just because its local. "Results outside your area" include steam kettles, outboard motors and anything else. If there is a Buick Riviera for sale more than 60 miles away will I ever find out about it?

I don't see the hilarity in taking the mick out of people's poor English. Not everyone speaks it as a first language. If I had to sell a car in French or Polish I would probably stuggle. And some folk are just poor and badly educated. I'm not a massive elitist going to make fun of that. It depresses me we can't educate our own kids to grow up to write their own language well enough to sell a car, but damn, there are literally people making Facebook groups to share this stuff and crow about how much better they are than the people who wrote those adverts. Jesus don't get me started on the adverts writen by AI though....

There are some people who are clearly high on something other than life when writing their adverts though, I used to really enjoy RAYMANBOY on eBay. Wonder what became of him?

[akku]

(the above wasn't so much intended at a swipe at the OP)

[skinnylew]

Noticed more and more AI written adverts on eBay and it's just awful, obvious and massive red flag to me. It's hardly difficult to write an advert containing the essential information and some gumff 😂

[Rich]

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