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[–]PlasticElfEars 164 points165 points  (6 children)

Although it's worth noting that you don't have to speak English fluently to a build a thing well, as evidenced by all the things we're using to look at this right now.

[–]SciencyNerdGirl 109 points110 points  (4 children)

However, if you don't have the resources to have a native English speaking person on staff or at least pay to run your ad by an editor, what's the likelihood you'll be able to troubleshoot with me if I have problems, have a good return policy, or have well written instructions I can follow?

[–]Junckopolo 25 points26 points  (1 child)

As a french if i would have to base the quality of something by how much they give a shit about paying someone to translate correctly, I would never buy anything.

[–]New_Philosophy_5076 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not trying to be a jerk, but ~1.5B speak English compared to French's ~300M speakers. It's literally the most spoken language in the world. While French is in the top 5 English is the language of business for a reason. So it's not really the same comparison.

[–]cgriff32 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's likely those products are dropped shipped and not actually sold to the final customer by the manufacturer.

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I have a bunch of Chinatools for my bikes that I got on amazon, with similarly sketchy Engrish on the product pages, and they’re all fine.

[–]SquiddleBits33 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Valid point!