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Misinterpretation of question on eBay
My message to seller:
Do any of the cards in this lot, or any cards you have for sale, have a rubber stamp on the back from previous (original) owner Howe McCormick 500 W. Main St., Gainesville, Fla Please let me know. Thanks. His response: Howe, no none of them have rubber stamps on the back. Thanks Not the first time this has happened. So, am I just a lousy question asker? |
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Yes. A better way to phrase would be:
I believe a previous owner of the cards was XYZ. Do any of your cards have a stamp placed on them by XYZ? |
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Make it simple. "Do you have any cards with the name Howe McCormick stamped on the back?"
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I wrote someone asking about old yearbooks from my hometown, lots of family grew up in the town and went to the school there, so here is the question/answer copied from our ebay conversation:
Me: Hi, could you tell me if there is anyone with the last name Dreker in any of your Kearny yearbooks Seller: There is one Decker Me: My last name is Dreker, so I was looking for any Dreker relatives that may be in the yearbook. Thanks Seller: Her name is Alice Decker Notice I put the last name twice in the second response, then ended the conversation quickly when I realized I was fighting a losing battle
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You could put the name and address in quotes too.
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LOL...don't ya just love it when they don't pay attention to the main details of the question? |
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My name is Ed McCollum. I thank you in advance for a quick minute of your time. There was a man named "Howe McCormick" that actually used a rubber stamp to mark some of these cards. I was wondering if this lot, or any other cards you own have the following information stamped on the back of the card? "Howe McCormick 500 W. Main St., Gainesville, Fla" Best I could do And I am positive there will still be "those people" who are going to misunderstand anything you type |
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There's some stamped by a lady named Carolina Brights and some more by some Hindu fellow and then a whole bunch with a guy's last name "Drum" but, no, there are no McCormicks in the lot. Sorry I couldn't have been more help. Yours truly, Joe Seller |
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I have gotten that response quite often also. "Only stamp on the card is it says it's a Piedmont. Sorry" Or the better "It says 350 subjects. Is that what you need to know?" But I do like the example given above. Think I'll be using it from now on. Thanks to all. Last edited by Howe’s Hunter; 01-30-2013 at 07:21 AM. Reason: can't spell or use proper grammer. |
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Not that this seller wasn't clueless, but it goes a long way to show why old census records are rife with errors in spelling and dates. |
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With my last name, I get more misses than hits. It's a very rare last name, 19 people in the US have it, all related to me. Some others in Germany that are probably related somehow. Yet I see the name a lot in searches and it ends up being Decker, or Dreher or Dreyer because they find something close
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