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davidcyclebackI don't think many of these scams are well thought out. My theory, from
the way the sales sales are presented, is some of them are drug addicts
looking for meth money
Though many great writers were addicts (Faulkner, Hemmingway, Coleridge
was a laudanum (opium in alcohol) addict), and it didn't effect their punctuation.
If you're ever at the library and pick up a copy of Hubert Selby Jr's
Last Exit to Brooklyn (ranked as a modern literary classic), you'll
see he writes just like some of these eBay sales descriptions. I don't
believe he uses punctuation (a chapter is one sentence) and writes for
long periods in all capital letters. Be duly warned, however, that the
book is extremely disturbing and graphic.