Like this:

Nothing serves as a better reminder that the written English language is in the toilet as a few minutes spent browsing the furniture category of the list.  Some ads are so poorly written, I have to imagine that English is not the first spoken language of the poster.  More often than not though, the same grammatical/spelling errors are seen over and over again.  The most basic is mixing up sell and sale.  As a poster you are advertising an item for sale, not for sell.  An ad should state that you are selling your kitchen table, not saleing it.  Other common mistakes I’ve seen:

• dining NOT dinning (as in a dinning table that seats six)
• mirror NOT mirrow (old wardrobe with mirrowed doors)
• chest of NOT chester, as in chest of drawers (old wood chester drawers)
• wrought NOT rot, as in wrought iron
• futon NOT fouton

Once I saw a posting for “Wayne’s coating” paneling, which is most likely only funny to us architecturally-inclined people.  Who’s Wayne? Is he missing his coat?

Finally, it really doesn’t make sense to include the words beautiful or reduced in your ad title.  Neither word is really going to help you sell your item.  Beautiful is subjective, and if you ask me, your 1980s bedroom furniture is not a BEAUTIFUL BEDROOM SET. Also, reducing the price when you relist your item is fine, but as browsers, we don’t need to know this.  What you’re really saying is, “hey, I’ve posted my item for sale several times haven’t sold it because the price is too high.  So please take a look.”

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