MisSpell Generator from Adam Ginsberg

Adam Ginsberg of AdamGinsberg.com is following the route of Mike Enos, amongst others and turning their previously open public website into a members only resource. Starting immediately visitors must optin to membership by offering their email address to gain access to the site.

It appears like the majority of the site has been redesigned since I last visited, and it’s now represents a much more professional and credible site.

For a limited period, visitors are offered free products in exchange for opening a members account. One of these is MisSpell Generator which Ginsberg normally sells access to for $49. MisSpell Generator searches though eBay listings on eBay, eBay UK, eBay Australia, eBay Ireland, eBay Canada and eBay India for item listings with misspelt word within the title.

For those unfamiliar why this would be of any use, then it’s worth remembering that the majority of searches performed by visitors on eBay are done though a keyword search. For example, users will enter the keyword “Sony Television” into the search box as oppose to clicking though to the relevant eBay category (Consumer Electronics >Televisions) and viewing all listings.

Essentially, if you misspell a word in your listing it will get significantly less exposure on eBay and will therefore get lower bids as the competition between bidders will less intense.

Although it’s unfortunate for sellers who misspell words, this brings an opportunity for bidders to grab themselves a bargain at the same time. A lot of bidders take advantage of these mistakes to win auctions, purely in order to relist the same items correctly and resell the goods on eBay at profit.

MisSpell Generator offers a selection of the most popular goods being searched for on the front page, as well as keeping a handy list of your previous searches below this for easy access. Searches can be filtered by eBay site and Misspell Generator also claims to remove potentially fraudulent auctions from your results, although it does not go into details of how this is done.

A quick search for the word Television is performed, and a few moments later 23 results are shown for misspelt items. Of these, 12 are Televisions, while the other items are TV accessories such as Ariels and Remote Controls. Following the misspelt results, the results for original spelling and common variations of “television” are shown. If you search for long enough, it’s a certainty you’ll find something worth bidding on.

Overall, MisSpell Generator is a handy tool to have access to while it is being included with free membership, although it is only being included for a limited period. There are similar tools available, that provide free access to the same results such as FatFingers.com but a quick comparison showed MisSpell Generator provides more listing than FatFingers.

You can create your free membership at AdamGinsberg.com

Written by Mark on September 17th, 2006 with no comments.
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