eBay misspelled auction search tool - how and why
Thanks for visiting Missing-Auctions.co.uk. My name is Philip Lee and I'm the person behind Missing-Auctions.co.uk.
Some months ago I was looking for a digital voice recorder on eBay.co.uk without much success. One afternoon, whilst typing in my search phrase I missed out the 'o' in voice recorder and found myself looking at the search results for a 'digital vice recorder' with no bids, no reserve and just a few minutes left until the auction ended.
The result ? I bought it for a fraction of the price of others that I bid on.
Now if I could make a spelling mistake so could others and so Missing-Auctions.co.uk was born.
So exactly what does it do ?
Well, in a nutshell Missing-Auctions.co.uk provides you with an easy to use way of finding commonly misspelled items on eBay and the other leading auction sites.
But how ?
Take a moment and look at your keyboard. The most common spelling mistakes happen when you hit the wrong key, perhaps you hit 'y' instead of 't', or 's' instead of 'a'. Missing-Auctions.co.uk replicates this by deliberately mis-typing each letter in your search phrase.
But it doesn't stop there . . .
It's pretty easy to miss out a letter, or hit a key twice by mistake. And it's equally easy to get the letters in the wrong order.
Missing-Auctions.co.uk makes all these mistakes on your behalf and then searches the auction site that you select so that you can find those elusive missing auction items. Whether you buy them and save, or simply sell them on again (without spelling mistakes) is up to you.
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