making huge profits from ebay, its a bit of as myth (Ebay Misspelt Items Search Tool)

Member Name: darren55

Product:	Ebay Misspelt Items Search Tool
Date:	04/11/09 (17 review reads)
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Advantages: can get a real bargain

Disadvantages: lots of scammers out there

Ebay Misspelt items search engines have been doing the rounds for the last couple of years with promises that you can make serious profits from idiots who misspell their product and therefore not show up on a search request on Ebay.

The main one is called mismatched and allowes you to type in the correct name for the product and generates a list of possible typos searches for them and then gives you a list of the products on ebay.

Does it work?

Well yes in a way, you can obviously type in something and it can come up with those items that have been listed incorrectly.

Will it make you loads of money?

No, its a myth, you can get the odd bargain and therefore there is a possible resale value to them but this has two issues firstly there are the ebay fees when you list the product. This comes in at around 10% of the total sale value, so any profits have to be above 10% to make it viable. The other issue is the quality of the received product, you have to hop that the product you are buying is A1 quality. If its not then its not worth re-selling.

So as a guide its been suggested to me that there are potentially huge profits to be made but to be honest a lot of the misspelt items are in my opinion deliberately so, I don't know how often I've seen Abercrombie spelt without the r in crombie and thats from the same seller on about 50 items!! Hmmm that can't be right because as soon as you look at the item, the product description is oddly correct and the P&P suspiciously high.

I'm also abit suspicious because I bought a jumper from Harbour which cost me £1 with £5 P&P, it never arrived and after appealing to ebay was told that the seller had made 50 successful transaction and they had noted the problem but couldn't do anything. I looked on the sellers info and they had made 50 sales then proceeded to pocket the sales from around 20 items, draw your own conclusion as most of the products were subtedly misspelt.

I sold a couple of T-shirts from abercrombie and made about £5 on the pair but it soon became a chore and I couldn't be bothered with the bidding, buying, waiting, listing, selling, receiving money, posting and after all that making as much as writing 10 reviews or so on this site. This site is way more fun.

So there are bargains out there but I'd only use it for a item I'm looking to keep.

Summary: just be careful