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Old May 17, 2018, 01:01 PM
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Originally Posted by justafriend306 View Post
I have been visiting buy and sell sites recently to replace a major item. It peeves me that people have no knowledge of what they are talking about resulting in their mechandise being grosly misidentified and poorly described. Describing a hardware store sit on top 5ft long boat is not the same as a flatwater touring 20ft kayak. Also a peeve is that people fail to include pictures of what they are selling.
I too get irritated when there are no pictures accompanying the merchandise but I dont have a problem when someone describes and names their products in ways that I feel are misidentified or poorly done. used to though to the point where I contacted them and explained what I felt was wrong with their doing this. it turned out to be a vocabulary thing where different locations call and describe things differently. kind of like my state says Soda for a carbonated beverage and a relative says "pop" instead. Soda where she is, is a baking product not a beverage. so for example if she placed an ad for selling or wanting to buy soda she would describe it as a white powdery substance in a bright colored box, vs if I was describing soda I would say a dark liquid encased in a glass collectible bottle or a dark liquid encased in a plastic bottle or a dark liquid in an aluminum can.

since then people describing their products differently then I think they should is not a pet peeve of mine but the lack of pictures is still one.
Thanks for this!
rdgrad15