eBay Mis-spelled Words
In the ongoing quest to find great deal on eBay or even to find items you can flip, one of the interesting approaches is by looking for misspelled items. One of the most common misspellings was âlabtopâ? for âlaptopâ?. This misspelling is so common that some people listing laptops actually use the word âlabtopâ? in their title. Check it out.
You know the topics you are interested in. Look at how the word can be misspelled. For instance, if needlepoint is your passion, try searching for âneedlepointâ? or âneedlepointâ?. It is more than likely that you will find a few items under these misspellings. Even better â for you â these items will not have bids on them because people looking for needlepoint will not find these.
As an experiment, I went and tried this just now and found 13 items and not one of these had an eBay bid. Some were from the same eBay seller. You could watch these, buy them at the last minute for the opening bid price which is low, ask for combined shipping and have a great set of items that you can list in your own auction – correctly spelled!
AuctionPixie on October 1st, 2006 1:59 am
An easy way to do this is use an automated search tool such as the one at the AuctionPixie website. This tool basically allows you to enter your search phrase and then it automatically returns any items it can find that are misspelled. You can find this tool here:
http://www.auctionpixie.co.uk/search/
It’s free, and pretty precise, and can save a lot of time with regards to looking for misspelled items.
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