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Rating:
Level of Review:
Researched. Too high a risk.
Overview: Software
that seeks out misspellings on eBay items.
Product: Buying and
selling items on eBay.
Costs: $37.00.
Compensation:
Whatever you make between buying price and selling price,
minus fees.
Conclusion:
Ok, this one is just software, but it is
indicating that you can make money more easily,
or begin making money on eBay successfully just
by owning the software. I'd not recommend it for
beginners, for a number of reasons.
1. Only the less intelligent sellers list things with misspellings
in the titles - professional sellers will at least
make sure the title is good! Less
intelligent sellers are more likely to mis-describe or mis-identify an item.
Your risk goes WAY up if you are seeking out this type of auction.
2. You aren't the only one looking for these, plenty of other people are
too. Serious eBay buyers are not put off by misspellings. They look meticulously
through every category item by item.
3. You still have to know the rules for buying and selling on eBay. You
notice, the person selling this admits that they learned an awful lot about buying and
selling on eBay before trying this. They were adding this to their existing
knowledge, not substituting it for it as they imply. And eBay is HARD to
master!
4. The edge it would give you would be minimal. You'd have to learn to
recognize which items WERE underpriced, and which ones were worth buying. People
who misspell things in their titles often also overprice rather than underprice.
A Misspelling just means that other people may not bid as much as they would on
another item, it does not mean it is totally ignored, or that it is even a good
value.
5. You still have to specialize. You cannot make money on eBay unless you
learn a market. You have to know your products, know the average selling prices,
know what kinds of details people want, etc. This takes a lot of time and
research to learn, as well as a good bit of intuitive saavy.
6. The software would have limited function. You'd either have to tell the
program what misspellings you were looking for, or trust it to just look for
whatever set of misspellings IT thought was important - spell check software
always operates off a dictionary, and item description
terms are quite different from the average dictionary. Either way, it would miss
over half - even spell checkers in word processing programs miss many errors. You could not just tell it to go look for anything that was
misspelled. To search ALL of eBay that way
would take you ages to do because there are millions of listings at any
given time. It might search a category for pre-programmed errors, but it would
still miss some - software is very literal, it cannot think outside its box! And
if you are specializing, you can scan the categories manually or search in
multiple ways to find them just as easily. For example, Microsoft Windows XP
Professional, if misspelled as MS Widows XP Profesional still shows up in a
search for XP.
Its value is questionable, and all it would offer is a slight edge to a few
sellers at best. It is not an instant money solution for someone who has no eBay
experience.
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