For Seller

By: Daniel Hall

Are you an eBay junkie? No need for rehab. It’s probably a good thing.

In many situations shopping eBay makes great sense. For example, because eBay serves as an accessible worldwide market, prices on both common and difficult to find items are likely the best available - anywhere!

No wonder so many people shop eBay first. Of course, bidding strategies and rarity versus demand always influence the final price you pay. But overall there are usually good deals available from day to day.

Be that as it may, this article will discuss using misspelled words to find "lost" auctions where you can pick up items at bargain prices.

Let’s first talk about the wisdom of checking for misspelled words. You know, of course, that most auctions are found through a keyword search. That is, a potential buyer goes to the eBay search box and types in what they are looking for and up pops the auctions containing that keyword.

So far so good, however, some sellers’ will accidentally post auctions with misspellings in the item title or item description. Believe it or not this happens more frequently than you may think. The beauty for buyers is when there are misspellings, especially in the item title, these auctions will not come up in the keyword search. Consequently, these auctions do not get the traffic they may have otherwise received if they were error free.

This can be an absolute boon for the prospective buyer who stumbles across the auction. Generally less traffic means less competition and lower bids.

"All the better for you, my little pretty."

Because items found in auctions that suffer from misspellings can then be purchased, in many cases, for substantially less than they may have otherwise sold.

Of course the trick to the whole strategy is figuring out how the item you’re interested in purchasing was misspelled. Obviously, the ways a keyword is misspelled can be myriad. Much time can be wasted trying to figure out how (and if) your particular keyword is misspelled on the eBay site.

Fortunately, you don’t have to spend hours trying to recreate misspellings. There are actually misspelling tools where you can type in the correct spelling of the word and the software will jumble the letters and create dozens of possible misspellings.

I have such a tool installed at my eBay affiliate site. Other misspelling tools are easy to locate via Google and the search term “eBay misspelling tool.” Most of these tools will not only misspell your keyword but they will then submit the entire group of them to the eBay search engine. Your results will then be displayed on eBay’s site. Its great and can turn up some hidden gems.

It’s important to look for auction listings in the traditional format (where you place bids as opposed to "buy-it-now" or fixed price) and no-reserve auctions. Obviously, the point behind these suggestions is without these two things the seller is less protected from selling at a low price.

Give a misspelling tool a try, there is absolutely no telling with bargain treasures you can uncover.

Daniel Hall, is the owner of the successful eBay affiliate site, http://www.DealzORama.com/ where you’ll find a great eBay misspelling tool that can help you find real bargains. Also, to entice eBay buyers to use DealzORama.com to make all their eBay purchases, he offers hundreds of dollars in free bonuses when buyers forward their purchase receipts to him. They then received a download link with ton’s of FREE goodies which is constantly updated with new gifts.