There are still thousands of bargains to be had on eBay and the biggest challenge is finding them.

I am here to show you how to take advantage of sellers mistakes, because that’s where the real bargains are.

The mistakes you will be taking advantage of are:

• Spelling and punctuation mistakes
• Items listed in the wrong category
• Newby Listings

Spelling mistakes:

These happen when a seller has made a mistake when typing their title. These items rarely have many bids, because they are a lot harder to find. Unless you have a lot of time (or a lot of luck!) you will never find these items by simply trawling through listings. You will need a helping hand, go to our miss-spelling page.

This tool will help you find miss-spelt listings on eBay. I have used it many times and you will be amazed at how many mistakes people make.

Not all mistakes sellers make are due to spelling. Sellers may add punctuation or a space which means they do not show up in most searches.

Here are two examples:

1)
If you are looking for a pair of the most popular jeans on ebay, Levis. There are two ways of spelling it, you could type Levis or Levi’s. These two spellings would in fact give different results.

2)
Spaces are another thing that causes people to miss listings. You may miss a listing by typing COCACOLA when it was listed as COCA COLA.

There is a way for you to find all the listings you are looking for. If you take all the different ways of writing the word/words and put bracs around them and split them up with commas, like this (COCACOLA, COCA COLA).

This will bring up all the listings for both.

Items listed in the wrong categorys:

This is handy for finding popular items such as MP3 player and printers. What you are looking for is seller too have placed his item in the wrong category.

i.e. mp3 player listed in with the toys.

The way you do this is, search for “MP3 Player” at eBay’s homepage and using the Matching Categories on the left hand side of the search results.

The matching categories will show the name of the category and the number of items wit-in it that match that search. What you do is just go through them and hope you hit lucky.

Newby Listings:

New sellers often list their items poorly, which means they will sell for less money. There are a number of reasons why they go for less money.

Listings that ends late at night on a weekday. When a listing is close to finishing it is at its most visible as it will be on the first page of the search but if its late at night when people are unlikely to see it.

Postage Prices. When new users start they usually know pretty much how much they should ask for there items but most of them do not know how much to charge for postage. This gives you a great opportunity to grab a bargain.

If you set up your ebay display to show you the postage price, you can see at a glance any cheap postage. This is fantastic with big thing such as computers and printers.

Another good tip with postage is if you find an item which is pick up only and it has zero bids wait until its almost ended and email the seller tell them how much it would cost to send and would they be willing to post it?

This is great as pick up only puts off lots of bidders and if the listing is almost over and it has no bids the seller may be willing to post it for you.

Buy it Now’s:

Buys it now’s are great apart from all the good ones go in the first few hours of them coming on to ebay. The best way to find them is to go to newly listed items and search buy it now’s.

Computer memory is a good example as there are hundreds listed every day and chances are someone will not know the full value of what they are selling and offer a cheap buy it now price.

Off the wall:

Finding completed listings. Go to Advanced Search in the top right of any ebay page. You can search for listings which have been completed.

This is handy as you can search for items which have finished but have not sold. You can then contact the seller and find out when he is going to re-list and maybe get a head-start on the listing, or even arrange a bargain Buy It Now price!