Misspelling On Ebay - Use It To Your Advantage
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 "labtop" for "laptop". This misspelling is so
common that some people listing laptops actually use the word
"labtop" 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 "needlepoint" or "needlepoint". It is more
than likely that you will find a few items under these
misspellings. Even better - for you - 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 !
It won't work in the case of combined shipping where all the
items will be shipped in the same package but a side benefit of
winning these misspelled auctions is that you have them already
packaged and ready to reship when you sell them. If you like,
you can take a peek inside to make sure it is as advertised and
then tape it up again.
Often it is easy to copy the misspelled auction into your word
processing program and fix the misspelling and modify it so that
it is yours. It will have the basic information such as
dimensions and color already worked out for you.