How does Auction Bloopers work?
eBay is the worlds largest auction Web site with over $23 billion worth of goods expected to sell this year. eBay is turning into a real gold mine for misspelled items all because sellers rush. How does this work you may ask? It’s quite simple. For example Mr X is trying to sell a 20-inch wide screen television. He accidentally misspells “televison”. If you go to eBay and search for television you will get thousands of results. “televison” however only returns a few items. Very few potential buyers will see this listing as they will search for the correct spelling of television only. The number of bids and competition for that auction will be low. A lot of expensive items are sold for close to nothing every single day. Fortunately for us, eBay does not have integrated spell checkers. The amount of misspelled items will increase proportionately with the number of items listed on eBay. As an example search for “pentim” (note the correct spelling should be “pentium”). Chances are you will
