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January 8 2010

So things wouldn’t be so bad if PEOPLE WHO BUY THINGS FROM EBAY WERE NEVER FROM NIGERIA. EVER. Long story short, I’m selling an item on ebay and it sells, after 0 bids the whole auction, on the last day. Great. The Girl is from CA. Cool. I get an email the next day saying something about my dying mom… trip.. last minute… sorry… send to where i am… nigeria. Sigh. Immediately following that is an email from PayPal saying the money has been put into my paypal acct.. so I’m thinking, maybe just maybe this person legitimately had to go to Nigeria?! I mean, I had to go to Uganda once and maybe I’d want someone to send my package there if I really needed it. But then I noticed.. wait now, I only listed this item with a $25 shipping fee.. not the $100 that this person had paid me. Then I get the smart idea to manually log into my paypal acct and check to see what was in it. Nada. Well, not nada, but the same measly amount that was in there 2 days prior. Great. Thanks. So I’m conjuring up plans to re-list the item or maybe sell on craigslist when I get back to NC.. and i get an email when I wake up that was too funny to not share. Its from ebaycustomercare. I check the actual address… looks legit right? riiiight… Then i proceed to read the body of the email that, would have been under most cases pretty convincing if it WEREN’T FOR THE 40+ GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN IT. Seriously Nigeria, get it together. In America we call it spellcheck. The image above starts with a sentence with not one, but two glaring errors. First of it’s an incomplete sentence. Horrifically incomplete. Secondly, I don’t think that ebay “will like to inform me” of anything. Maybe they “would” like to inform me.. but I doubt that. The second sentence continues on the path of incompletedness but adds a new flair, capitalizing things that don’t need to be Capitalized. Plus I’m pretty sure they forgot a “has” somewhere up in there. Maybe it’s just me though. I won’t continue with the play by play, but largely I gather that people from Nigeria don’t understand when to use the past tense and when not to…. and that they are bored. Or Evil. Sigh.

So things wouldn’t be so bad if PEOPLE WHO BUY THINGS FROM EBAY WERE NEVER FROM NIGERIA. EVER.

Long story short, I’m selling an item on ebay and it sells, after 0 bids the whole auction, on the last day. Great. The Girl is from CA. Cool. I get an email the next day saying something about my dying mom… trip.. last minute… sorry… send to where i am… nigeria. Sigh. Immediately following that is an email from PayPal saying the money has been put into my paypal acct.. so I’m thinking, maybe just maybe this person legitimately had to go to Nigeria?! I mean, I had to go to Uganda once and maybe I’d want someone to send my package there if I really needed it. But then I noticed.. wait now, I only listed this item with a $25 shipping fee.. not the $100 that this person had paid me. Then I get the smart idea to manually log into my paypal acct and check to see what was in it. Nada. Well, not nada, but the same measly amount that was in there 2 days prior. Great. Thanks.

So I’m conjuring up plans to re-list the item or maybe sell on craigslist when I get back to NC.. and i get an email when I wake up that was too funny to not share. Its from ebaycustomercare. I check the actual address… looks legit right? riiiight…

Then i proceed to read the body of the email that, would have been under most cases pretty convincing if it WEREN’T FOR THE 40+ GRAMMATICAL ERRORS IN IT. Seriously Nigeria, get it together. In America we call it spellcheck.

The image above starts with a sentence with not one, but two glaring errors. First of it’s an incomplete sentence. Horrifically incomplete. Secondly, I don’t think that ebay “will like to inform me” of anything. Maybe they “would” like to inform me.. but I doubt that. The second sentence continues on the path of incompletedness but adds a new flair, capitalizing things that don’t need to be Capitalized. Plus I’m pretty sure they forgot a “has” somewhere up in there. Maybe it’s just me though.

I won’t continue with the play by play, but largely I gather that people from Nigeria don’t understand when to use the past tense and when not to…. and that they are bored. Or Evil.

Sigh.