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Spokane_Girl

22 May 2009, 3:17 pm

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090522/ap_ ... nd_big_toy


This is why you should always log out of your account when you have children when you are done with the site.



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22 May 2009, 4:23 pm

It wasn't ebay for one thing, the other is that I've been in the construction industry for 6 years, and I can say that I know for a fact that there is no such piece of equipment in existence known as a "digger", it was most likely a crawler excavator. I hate it when newspapers try to use easier to understand words rather than the actual words. If they had said "crawler excavator", and shown a picture of it, the readers of the article would actually learn something as well as get the sensation of the story.



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22 May 2009, 4:43 pm

This shows kids are smarter than you think. If a 3 year old can buy stuff on eBay, anyone can.


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22 May 2009, 4:47 pm

lol! How cute.


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22 May 2009, 4:48 pm

LOL imagine if the digger got delivered to the house and the mum would be like, "WTF? I didn't order no digger!" and the kid would be like, "Cool!" :lol:


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22 May 2009, 6:17 pm

normally_impaired wrote:
It wasn't ebay for one thing, the other is that I've been in the construction industry for 6 years, and I can say that I know for a fact that there is no such piece of equipment in existence known as a "digger", it was most likely a crawler excavator. I hate it when newspapers try to use easier to understand words rather than the actual words. If they had said "crawler excavator", and shown a picture of it, the readers of the article would actually learn something as well as get the sensation of the story.

Agreed. >3<; I hate when they do that too, because what do I do if I want to look into it further? Google "digger?" Pffff. D: It's usually not hard to read a word you don't know and figure out what it probably means from the context. More confidence in readers, plz.


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22 May 2009, 10:13 pm

On that subject.. It wasn't even eBay, it was a site called trademe. Not sure why they put a picture of eBay, with the crazy caption:

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A photograph of a computer screen showing the website eBay is shown here in Encinitas, California in this recent photo from April 22, 2009.



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22 May 2009, 10:26 pm

I thought TradeMe was the name of the seller on ebay.