Fat Fingers Delivers Fat Ebay Deals
Today I was informed of an innovative website that's service is to deliver you products on ebay with typos in the title. These products get extremely low traffic since their titles have typos and are rarely found using ebay's search features. Fat Fingers changes all that by letting you type in a word, and finding all the common misspelled variations of that word, and then searching ebay's database, allowing you to see products with typos for that specific word. These items have hardly any bids on them, allowing you to swoop in and take the item for an incredibly low price.
Pretty ingenious if you ask me, one of my partners who I am working on a project with has used Fat Fingers exclusively, and ended up winning a laptop value at $2600 for $800. Ebay usually doesn't sell products for top value, but that is an incredible savings. Obviously, this is going to work better for items that have more listings, since you will have a better probability of finding a typo item. During the grabd rush for Xbox 360's and Playstation 3's, Fat Fingers could deliver some finger licking good prices on overpriced items.
Have you had any experience, good or bad, with Fat Fingers? Let me know! Or if you find any other innovative sites such as Fat Fingers, be sure to let me know!
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Comments
Missing Auctions posted on 07/27/2007 @ 2:35:58 pm
Fat Fingers is a good website but it has a number of shortcomings. Most notable is the inability to be able to specify which category you'd like to search within. This may not seem like a problem but when you're searching for Motorola walkie-talkies you don't want to wade through hundreds of misspelled Motorola cell phones ! Also, and this is really neat, it allows you to create misspelling searches that work via RSS so you can notified the moment someone lists a new misspelled item matching your search. Thoroughly recommended !
Missing Auctions posted on 07/27/2007 @ 2:39:30 pm
Damn ! The link didn't display so here it is: http://www.missing-auctions.com