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Using This Category - As a Seller

As a seller you can find items that are misspelt or badly listed and are therefore going cheap with a view to relisting them correctly and achieving a higher price.
Compare against recently sold items to see what their true value is.

Using This Category - As a Buyer

You can use this category as a buyer to find the item you want to buy and see if you can get it cheaper by using the misspelt searches.
You can compare the price against items that have recently sold to see if you are getting a good deal.

Mistyped Items

Website Bidtastic provides a variety of mistyped and misspelt searches on eBay.
Quite often items in an auction with a mistyped or misspelt title will not be found by most bidders and so these items can often be won at a cheaper price.
This search page searches for two types of misspelled items, via the Bidtastic website:

• The first link provides general mistypings which involve missed letters, doubling up of letters and swapping letter positions, for each letter in the search term.
• The second link provides proximity mistypings which involves replacing each letter of the search term with each of its closest neighbours on the keyboard.

eBay Searches

• The third link searches for items for which the auction has recently ended.
  Use this search to see what price similar items have recently sold for. (Where the price is red the item was unsold.)
  You can then easily see if there is a decent profit margin for a misspelt item to be resold.
  You must be registered with eBay to carry out a completed item search. Tick the "Stay Logged On" box when logging onto eBay and you only need logon once.
• The fourth link searches the auction title only.
• The fifth link searches the auction title and description for the search term. You would use this search when looking for items that are not so easily described by a simple title.

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