Why misspelled eBay auctions can save you a small fortune

It’s not common knowledge but a significant proportion of eBay sellers consistently fail to check their auction listings before they submit them to eBay.  Sometimes these spelling mistakes are deliberate and arise because the sellers are trying to cram too much detail in to the auction title (eBay limits this to just 65 characters).  However, more usually these typos are due to carelessness or a basic inability to spell correctly.

But why does this matter ?

Because unless someone searching on eBay for a particular item happens to misspell their 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 line by line.

But now there is a better way to locate these misspelled auction items: one that’s been used successfully by tens of thousands of bargain hunters over the last year 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 functions 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 auction items matching any of the words on the list will then be shown on eBay.

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

The answer is amazingly simple !  Because these eBay auction typos are usually so difficult to find they attract fewer bids. This means that misspelled auctions generally 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 get a real bargain.

If you’re smart you can even relist any misspelled items that you buy (taking care to avoid introducing misspellings) 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 amazed at the bargains that you can pick up.