One of the best ways to get great deals on eBay is to find mis-spellings of items on eBay — they’re hard to find, so the prices are stupidly low. This search engine makes it a ton easier. The search uses the guy’s eBay affiliate ID so he can make a few bucks (which is only fair), but he does off an affiliate-free version.
Comments
Nice way to start a slow afternoon!
Search ebay.co.uk for a book you’ve wanted for a while. Find it with a highest bid of 75p, place bid for 80p but in your half awake state place a maximum bid of 80 pounds. Hit enter and then wonder WTF you’re still the highest bidder at when the book is at 10 pounds… who said this thing saved us money?
I’ll try it again when I’m more awake.
AuctionFigure.com has a better typo finder. It does multiple searches, and even lets you jump directly to the “view larger photo” section of the page if you click on the image for a listing!
gumshoo rocks! eBay misspellings and fraud detection all rolled into one.
Gumshoo only seems to allow ebay.com which is no good to us Brits.
i do like the junk filter though..
Gumshoo does work for ebay.co.uk – c=just change the location
I have also written one – Please let me know what you think. Mine does .co.uk
FatFingers didn’t do anything – I had to click on a link to go to Ebay to see the results. Gumshoo has some neat features but only found 14 typo’s when I was searching for items for my Skylark. Spellingsearch.com brought back 379 typo’s for Skylark – no contest.
I have been using the following site for EBay Typos – AuctionBloopers.com Piod (Ipod) for $2.95 🙂
I think one reason that some misspelling search tools return more results than the other (besides having a more thorough search code), there’s a character limit to searches that you do on ebay. It’s something like 350 characters, I think.
So, the results may depend on the order in which types of misspellings a particular search tool are generated, if that makes any sense.
Fatfingers was out of commish for a bit and the others don’t seem to return a great deal of results.
Has anyone tried this one for eBay misspellings?