How misspelled eBay items can save you money

It’s not common knowledge but a significant number of eBay sellers consistently fail to check their auction listings before they submit them to eBay.  Sometimes these auction typos are deliberate and result from sellers trying to squeeze too much information in to the auction title (eBay limits this to just 65 characters).  However, more usually these typos are simply due to carelessness or a basic inability to spell.

But why is this important ?

Because unless someone searching on eBay for a specific brandname happens to misspell the search word in exactly the same way then these misspelled auction items are unlikely to be found.

Up until relatively recently the only way that these misspelled auctions could be located was by looking through the auction listings one at a time.

Thankfully there is another way to locate these misspelled auction items: one that has been used successfully by tens of thousands of users over the twelve months and it’s to use a web site outside of eBay to search for eBay misspellings called Auction-Fatfingers.com.

This very specialized search engine works by taking a correctly spelled word or brandname, deliberately misspelling it in a variety of ways and then submitting these misspellings to eBay.  Any misspelled auctions matching any of the words on the list of misspellings will then be shown on eBay.

Sure it’s clever, but what is the point ?

The answer is amazingly simple !  Because these misspelled auctions are usually so difficult to find they attract less bids. This means that misspelled auctions usually sell for less than the same item which is correctly spelled, if they sell at all.  So while these stupid typos cost the sellers money they mean that you, the buyer, can grab a real bargain.

If you’re really smart you can even relist any misspelled items that you purchase (taking care to avoid introducing typos) in order to make a profit.

So what are you waiting for ? Why not head over to Auction-Fatfingers.com right now and try searching for ‘Abercrombie’, ‘Motorola’ or ‘Playstation’. You’ll be astonished at the bargains that you can pick up.