Did you know that peoples’ typing errors could make you money or secure you a bargain?
Every day on eBay many thousands of auctions end without a single bid, and it wasn’t because no one wanted what was for sale, but because the seller had made a spelling or typing error in the auction title.
How could this make you money?
Let’s say someone was selling a games consol, for example, a Sony Playstation with a starting bid of £9.99, but they made a typographical error and misspelled it “Plyastation”. Let’s also assume that they sell for around £70.00, which is the amount the seller was expecting to get. But instead of getting 15 or 20 bids, he only got one – yours.
Here comes the part where you make money. You can now put an auction on eBay for the same Playstation, spelled correctly, and make the money the first seller should have got.
But wait. Here’s a good twist. You don’t even need to see or handle the goods you have just bought. You could tell the seller that you’re buying it for a friend and will forward the address to send it to in a few days time. During that time you put the consol back up for sale on eBay and set the auction to run for no more than three days. When the auction ends, you forward the new buyers address to the original seller, who posts it on for you. Drop shipping! You didn’t have to worry about repackaging the item or posting the item.
But what if you want to keep things for yourself? Then if you like to shop for bargains on eBay, try looking for misspelled listing.
Finding all the possible permutations of misspellings can be a time consuming task, so I recommend you try the following sites as they have a very good eBay misspelling search tool.
www.FindClickBid.com or
www.FindClickBid.co.ukI have found and bought many bargains using this simple tool. To use the tool, all you do is type in one or two words with the correct spelling. For example, say you’re looking for a diamond ring; try typing the search term “diamond” into the box, and it will search eBay for words such as “daimond” and “dimond” etc. You will be amazed at the number of misspelled listing that come back in the search.
So get finding those bargains for yourself, or get re-selling those misspelled listings and make money from eBay
Bill Thomson is the webmaster for
http://www.got2know.co.uk
