Selling on e-bay, the perils of google translate

[Highland Handlebar]

An Italian seller has posted a Peco single slip on eBay today. He advertised it as Peco single briefs. Sounds like a load of pants to me

[RailGooner]

Good to see you posting @Highland Handlebar - it's been a fair while I think.

[Lawrence]

Good to see you posting @Highland Handlebar - it's been a fair while I think.

It's been lambing season up there @RailGooner so they had to get all the sheep of the treadmill that powers the internet up there 

[Hiawatha]

An Italian seller has posted a Peco single slip on eBay today. He advertised it as Peco single briefs.

It's not the fault of Google Translate (which usually works quite well nowadays) and also not the seller's. He didn't advertise it as briefs (if you click on the item you can see his title). It's just ebay's own translation "service" which as a seller or buyer you can't even disable.
Their artificial intelligence is so stupid that after their translations you don't even know what was written there before.
On German ebay it's particularly dreadful as many English terms are company names or proper names like "Mallard", so e.g. an E7 loco from "Life-Like" that "didn't run right" gets translated to something like "natural" and "not accomplished law".
Even worse are abbreviations: PRR is translated to "beten" ("praying"), and GWR becomes – wait for it – "Bördelwerkzeug" ("hemming tool").

So, if you see something completely stupid listed – don't blame the foreign seller, click on the item and see if it still reads the same. If not, it's ebay's artificial stupidity.

[Bealman]

An Italian seller has posted a Peco single slip on eBay today. He advertised it as Peco single briefs. Sounds like a load of pants to me

Good to see you back! 

You blokes are cracking me up here at the Antipodes