eBay

Bidding on eBay can really have you score a lot of bargains on a lot of things. However, in the vast number of products and sellers online, you may miss out on some really great deals if you don’t search hard enough. Especially when sellers aren’t too keen on typing titles and descriptions.

That’s where search engines like TypoHound comes in handy. TypoHound generates possible typos or misspellings of a given word and lets you search these variants on eBay. Say a MacBook’s spelled McBook (wow, they have books in McDonald’s?), TypoHound will include that variant in the search. Who knows, that McBook might just be the deal that you’re looking for.

TypoHound generates the following typos:

  • Character typed twice
  • Character omitted
  • Characters swapped
  • Key next to correct character hit
  • Key next to correct character and correct character hit

While you might have reservations on sellers who have errors in spelling, there are still ways on verifying if the seller’s any good. Here’s a eBay bidding guide.