With a cadre of spelling mistakes and information that’s not really information, the Alamo Flea Market recently decided to advertise on Craigslist, which when you get down to it is basically a Web site for people who absolutely do not want to get off their computer and go to an actual flea market.

The Alamo Flea Market, which is a staple of the highway that connects McAllen and South Padre Island because there’s basically nothing else of any importance in between, is an eclectic sight, seemingly a collection of cobbled together ply wood and sheet metal. Its Craigslist ad was pretty similar.

The not-a-complete-sentence entry, which was posted in all caps like a 12-year-old girl’s MySpace page, misspelled vendors as “ventors” and identified the closing time as “?”, which is a fine way to handle a party invitation, but a pretty poor way to let consumers know when they can access your business. When we want to buy an old Super Nintendo cartridge on a whim, are we to just show up at the Alamo Flea Market? Hoping and praying it’s open and we haven’t wasted a trip to, ugh, Alamo?

No, we aren’t going to do that. You know why? Because if we’re already on Craigslist, we’re just going to get the game there, or on ebay, or on any of the other dozen sites that are a billion times more specific than the Alamo Flea Market and able to be accessed without leaving our houses. That’s why we’re on Craigslist.

Anyway, here’s the ad in case you want basically no information about anything.

http://mcallen.en.craigslist.org/com/2801934293.html