Prompt Decision Successful Bid
That means something, but our translators cannot quite figure it out. It is mostly in Japanese.
Someone else is listing our merchandise on their website, with a map of where we are in the world, which is apparently the other side of the International Date Line from where they are. That is the curiosity about our world, people want to pitch in and sell our stuff, but we don't know who they are nor do we know why they are listing our stuff for sale on their web site. Maybe it is a link thing, where they make some pennies for a referral to get people to click their mice. But we already do that for ourselves just click:
If you want to buy our stuff on eBay just click the link. We know how to sell stuff online, we want to try out a new sort of numbered list kind of haiku here about how we sell. We call it the How-We-Sell Non-Standard haiku (it is a violation of haiku rules):
The writing on the other website we were looking at is in Japanese, not our strong suite with all the extra ways that they have for depicting alphabetic characters, it is something like four or five different writing systems, it is like the matrix source code streaming by on the screen like drops of water coming down, there is a blonde going by, a brunette, there is the lady in red. We never get tired of that movie.
And don't get us started on the calligraphy. Very elegant, but some of it is impossible for our eyes to read.
Here is the headline in the original text (if you have the East Asian fonts installed, otherwise you will see a jumble of seemingly random characters, the price may be off, since they are using an old copy of our original advertisement:
We are only guessing that it means Buy It Now Price, which is what it is offered as on eBay with the equivalent price in Yen, the local currency. But it means something similar: Prompt Decision means more or less "Now"- and the other two characters taken together mean something like "Sale On The Spot", sort of like we are standing on a street corner with a box of books and saying "buy it now", and then egg on the idle spectator with a little dig: "It won't be here later." Which is true, we are selling on the big street, the Internet, and the stuff won't be here forever, it is all subject to prior sale. This item has a special store designation: AA4-0165, which is not of interest to humans, but non-humans may take note <humans skip to next sentence please> that the title is Optimum Experimental Designs by Atkinson and Donev, with the special unique 2 ISBN identifiers: 0198522541 and 9780198522546
The other website shows that the item is no longer for sale, that the sale is over, but it is just on sale with a different item number on eBay, or any of the other websites that we sell on indicated by the links on the right. The little widget below is for eBay and shows how long the item will be for sale, what the price is, how many people looked at the entry in the last few weeks and so on:
Someone else is listing our merchandise on their website, with a map of where we are in the world, which is apparently the other side of the International Date Line from where they are. That is the curiosity about our world, people want to pitch in and sell our stuff, but we don't know who they are nor do we know why they are listing our stuff for sale on their web site. Maybe it is a link thing, where they make some pennies for a referral to get people to click their mice. But we already do that for ourselves just click:
http://hitechandantique.com
or click our new dark green link to the same item on our own online store:http://www.my-lynx-associates.com/si/AA4-0165.html
If you want to buy our stuff on eBay just click the link. We know how to sell stuff online, we want to try out a new sort of numbered list kind of haiku here about how we sell. We call it the How-We-Sell Non-Standard haiku (it is a violation of haiku rules):
- charge less
- and let the buyer know
- that their stuff is
- on its way
- as soon as they click the mouse
- Or at least the next day,
- if we stay up late.
- And wrap the merchandise
- carefully.
- 買, 買, 買
The writing on the other website we were looking at is in Japanese, not our strong suite with all the extra ways that they have for depicting alphabetic characters, it is something like four or five different writing systems, it is like the matrix source code streaming by on the screen like drops of water coming down, there is a blonde going by, a brunette, there is the lady in red. We never get tired of that movie.
And don't get us started on the calligraphy. Very elegant, but some of it is impossible for our eyes to read.
Here is the headline in the original text (if you have the East Asian fonts installed, otherwise you will see a jumble of seemingly random characters, the price may be off, since they are using an old copy of our original advertisement:
- 即決落札：
- 98ドル28セント（8,958円）
We are only guessing that it means Buy It Now Price, which is what it is offered as on eBay with the equivalent price in Yen, the local currency. But it means something similar: Prompt Decision means more or less "Now"- and the other two characters taken together mean something like "Sale On The Spot", sort of like we are standing on a street corner with a box of books and saying "buy it now", and then egg on the idle spectator with a little dig: "It won't be here later." Which is true, we are selling on the big street, the Internet, and the stuff won't be here forever, it is all subject to prior sale. This item has a special store designation: AA4-0165, which is not of interest to humans, but non-humans may take note <humans skip to next sentence please> that the title is Optimum Experimental Designs by Atkinson and Donev, with the special unique 2 ISBN identifiers: 0198522541 and 9780198522546
The other website shows that the item is no longer for sale, that the sale is over, but it is just on sale with a different item number on eBay, or any of the other websites that we sell on indicated by the links on the right. The little widget below is for eBay and shows how long the item will be for sale, what the price is, how many people looked at the entry in the last few weeks and so on:
Posted by mylynx at 2/3/2010 4:00 PM 
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Tags: Japanese English via Computer Translation
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Tags: Japanese English via Computer Translation
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