For those who keep scouring the Internet looking for ways of become rich beyond belief (may be an exaggeration), this will be either interesting or infuriating. Or maybe a combination of both.
Basically, one clever guy was able to make an incredible profit, $500,000, on eBay by buying a rare item for a negligible price. He was hence able to buy an item for less than $400.
This happened because the original seller stupidly made a typo in the listing, which happens rather frequently on eBay. In this particular case, he listed “ALLSOPP” as “ALLSOP”, which means that his item would not be returned by users making a search for ALLSOPP items.
Photo by collectordan.
Rhonda on September 5th, 2007 at 8:52 am
As a copywriter myself…. I spend hours and hours trying to make sure these typo’s never happen. All so my clients will present themselves in a professional manner. This, though, “takes the cake”! Or the bottle…
I am dumb-founded. Speechless.
Unbelievable.
Fake on September 7th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
C’mon now this is as fake as it gets, don’t you think MSM would have picked up on this by now?