A search engine for typos? It’s your Typo Buddy
How does this eBay misspelling thing work?
Typo Buddy is a search tool for misspelled eBay listings. You can find thousands misspelled words on eBay, and it is the secret to getting great deals! Careless eBay sellers post misspelled eBay items. Find these misspelled items on eBay and you’ll usually pay less because fewer people find mispelled (misspelled) eBay auction listings. This means eBay auctions with misspelled words get fewer bids. People make typos on Craigslist ads too, so happy hunting!
What is Typo Buddy?
Typo Buddy is a tool to help you find commonly misspelled auction listings and items on Ebay, Craigslist and eventually other auction web sites.
Why should I care?
Say you are looking to buy a Louis Vuitton wallet or perhaps an espresso maker. When you search for those things on ebay you’ll normally be in a competitive bid situation. If, however, you can find listings where people have accidentally misspelled the item or made a typo, then nobody else will see the listing and you’ll be the only bidder. That is how you get a great deal on eBay!
Okay, so how do I use it?
There are lots of ways to use it, depending on exactly what you want to do. The simpliest (simplest) (and the default) is to just type in whatever you are looking for spelled correctly. We’ll search for the typos and misspellings of it (but by default not the spelling you gave us). We do this because our focus is on finding deals, and it is the typos and misspelled items that offer the best deals.
But what about homophones?
Let’s say you are looking for garbage pail kids. You’d be happy to find garbage PALE kids, but normally we exclude “typos” that are real words. You can change this behavior under advanced options by selecting “Include real words”. You may want to use this in combination with excluding certain terms.
What kind of typos do you look for?
We look for all of the following:
* missing letters
* letters typed twice
* letters transposed
* letters replaced by a neighboring key
* extra letters inserted by a neighboring key
* phonetic mispellings (misspellings)
