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Fat Fingers will search eBay and a few other sites for common misspellings for the term you searched for. This helps you find items that you normally wouldn’t find due to someone misspelling a name in their item title. Since the items wouldn’t normally turn up under the correct search term, you’ll be able to find deals on items that aren’t getting a lot of traffic due to their incorrect descriptions. The site also gives you a few other options like limiting your eBay searches to items that only take PayPal or that have a Buy It Now option.
To find out how well the service works I searched for Playstation on eBay with the service. Click the “Continue Reading” link to see all of the misspelled terms it generated for me.
Thanks Mark
laystation, paystation, plystation, plastation, playtation, playsation, playsttion, playstaion, playstaton, playstatin, playstatio, lpaystation, palystation, plyastation, plasytation, playtsation, playsattion, playsttaion, playstaiton, playstatoin, playstatino, pplaystation, pllaystation, plaaystation, playystation, playsstation, playsttation, playstaation, playstattion, playstatiion, playstatioon, playstationn, ppaystation, pllystation, plaastation, playytation, playssation, playstttion, playstaaion, playstatton, playstatiin, playstatioo, playztation, playsration, playstarion, playsyation, playstayion, platstation, plaustation, playstatuon, playstatoon, playstatiin, playstatipn, plsystation, playststion, playatation, playdtation, playstatiob, playstatiom
As you can see it’s a pretty thorough search, and actually turns up quite a few results on eBay for PS2 items that have been incorrectly described.
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23 Responses for "Fat Fingers - Find misspelled items on eBay"
November 29th, 2004 at 4:34 pm
1FatFingers has been dead/broken for 2 months now. Sigh.
December 7th, 2004 at 11:29 am
2i am looking for golf stuff
December 7th, 2004 at 11:29 am
3i am looking for golf stuff
April 1st, 2005 at 8:51 am
4Visit http://www.misspellsearch.com it has a more complete search.
April 1st, 2005 at 9:34 am
5I prefer this one to find those misspelled bargains on ebay, seems to find far more results, and you can preview them too :
Bargain Checker : http://www.bargainchecker.com
April 14th, 2005 at 10:47 am
6This site http://www.misspellsearch.com has added a toolbar and a bunch of free software.
Voted 5 stars out of 5 at http://www.popularshareware.com and http://www.softpile.com
For having a 30% higher return on searches and a easy to use interface.
May 5th, 2005 at 7:55 pm
7I prefer this one to find those misspelled bargains on ebay, seems to find far more results, and you can preview them too :
Bargain Checker : http://www.bargainchecker.com
June 20th, 2005 at 3:55 pm
8how can i find an mp3 player wif cheap postage
July 30th, 2005 at 1:58 pm
9AuctionFigure goes several steps further. Each keyword is intelligelty searched for many misspellings. They also have a scam auctions filter and a filter to show only “new in box” items. They recently added pushpin shopping that lets you view multiple eBay listings on a single page so you don’t have to keep clicking the back button. Highly recommended!
Check out their search for Apple iPod to see how good their engine really is.
September 27th, 2005 at 12:01 am
10Definintely, http://www.auctionfigure.com offers the best eBay misspell search and their filters get rid of all the junk you don’t want to see.
I haven’t had any luck with BargainChecker. Searched but never got any results. :(
October 26th, 2005 at 4:49 pm
11I just found a better one, http://www.BusterBay.com it has an online search and a free misspell search toolbar. I just got a deal on a Cannon Digital Rebel.
February 1st, 2006 at 6:28 am
12There is another new search tool at http://www.apnretail.co.uk/searchnew.asp which lets you check 10 of the main eBay sites and it also shows you the sellers feedback rating when you do your search.
February 2nd, 2006 at 12:08 am
13Hi! I just happened to stumble upon this forum & I’m so happy I did! Can someone please share some information with me on searching ebay for misspellings. I tried several of the site you have listed & am a little confused. I thought the trick was by finding misspelled words in the title you would be able to snatch up a bargain. I haven’t found anything like that yet. What am I doing wrong? Please let me know. Thanks in advance :)
April 25th, 2006 at 10:10 am
14Where your going wrong is trying to find miss spellings. The miss spelt way of finding bargains is a little bit old hat now and lots of people know about it.
The best way to find bargains is when people dont even put the keyword in the title (nevermind spelling it wrong they havent put it in at all)
The only site i know which does this is http://www.goofbay.co.uk its by far the best ebay bargain checker and way more advanced than those you’ve listed above.
It also has other features/tools where you can view an ebay members private feedback or check for shill bidders.
Have a look for yourself you’ll see im not wrong!
April 30th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
15I’ve just found typotracker.com… seems to find far more typos than that!
May 1st, 2006 at 11:16 am
16I need to contact a ebay member .. i want to ask a question , is says i have no reason to deal with this person so they wont let it throu does any know how to get around it all ?
May 20th, 2006 at 7:33 pm
17Try out typo tool. Clean, easy format. No bells and whistles, just results. http://www.typotool.net
July 4th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
18Even easier to use is listedwrong.com.
July 28th, 2006 at 6:04 pm
19Misspellr lets you search eBay as well as Craigslist and Yahoo Auctions
September 18th, 2006 at 4:46 pm
20Looks to me like there are TOO MANY of these tools available right now. So let’s compare what’s out there:
Using the same example (playstation) from above:
SpellingSearch found 228.
Gumshoo/Auctionfigure found 168.
Fat Fingers found 153.
APNRetail found 152.
Misspellr found 151.
Typotool found 150.
Misspellsearch found 141.
Goofbay found 141.
Busterbay found 140.
Missing-Auctions found 15.
Typotracker’s “found” matches didn’t add up to the amount found on ebay. Their second link to additional supposed “matches” produced no results at Ebay.
Bargainchecker included the correctly spelled items in its results, even though I didn’t ask for them.
Listedwrong searched in title and description even though I didn’t want it to.
…
Overall, it looks to me like most of the sites hovering around the 150 item range are probably using similar (if not the same) spellchecking functions.
SpellingSearch brought back the most results and only served up what I asked for, so for me, I’m off to spellingsearch.com.
September 26th, 2006 at 12:39 am
21I use this toolbar for finding misspellings on ebay and it has the ebay toolbar built in!
It searches 4 eBay sites misspellings or without.
October 4th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
22Yeah, that toolbar uses this site for it’s misspellings.
January 21st, 2007 at 3:01 pm
23The best site I have found is http://www.misspellsarch.com they have had a misspell search feature for several years 90% of the others have copied them. I guess plagiarism is flattery at it’s best. They also were the first to offer a toolbar and other online tools. So I in my opinion I would go with what is proven to work the best http://www.misspellsearch.com
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