Saturday, October 28, 2006

Find Typos on Ebay to Score Deals!!

I'm not really an ebay user, I have a paypal account which you can always generously donate money into, but besides that I'm way to broke for online shopping. http://www.typohound.com/
has a really cool idea, you put in words like "toshia" when the seller ment "toshiba", making you one of the first, if not only to search and bid on this product, finding yourself a deal. Imagine that, our spelling mistakes are now making money online! But for the regular ebay user, this seems to be a great idea..I'll try Dimonds, or corvetes, maybe I can get a great deal too! The site claims, and I quote:

"

What is Typo Hound?

Many eBay auctions contain typos in the title listing. For example, 'toshiba' may be spelt 'toshia'. This means that when someone searches for ''toshiba', the misspelled 'toshia' is not shown. Thus no bids are placed on the 'toshia' auction entry.

Typo Hound generates common misspelled variants of the keyword. This allows you to find the elusive 'toshia' listing. Since no one else can find the auction with eBay search to bid on it, you bag yourself a bargain!"



How does it work?

How does the online tool work?

Simply search for a term and follow the link below the search box to hunt for deals on eBay!

Typo Hound generates the following typos:

  • Character typed twice
  • Character omitted
  • Characters swapped
  • Key next to correct character hit
  • Key next to correct character and correct character hit
Thats what they are saying, sounds good, I think I'll try it too!

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