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If you have children who play computer games then you’ll be familiar with the cycle of wanting the latest game, playing it to death for a while and then losing all interest in it.  If this sounds familiar and you’re looking at what to sell on eBay then you could be sitting on a gold mine!  With a variety of computer consoles out on the market including Playstation, Wii, Nintendo, Xbox and GameCube and the price of new game constantly edging upwards, there’s a huge market of potential customers who want to get their hands on the latest games but don’t want to pay the high prices charged when they are first released.  Sure you can trade in the used games at a variety of high street stores but none will give you the price that you could by selling the used computer games on eBay.

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My wife recently replaced her trusty mountain bike with a newer shinier model (hope she doesn’t do that to me!) and it seemed obvious to list the old one on eBay.  What could be simpler ?  Well actually, even as a seasoned eBay user I nearly failed.  Twice !  I spent over one and a half hours doing battle with eBay until I eventually triumphed.  What was the problem ?  I bet you’ll never guess . . . read on to find out what tripped me up

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Work on improving Missing-Auctions.com never stops and this time I’ve been concentrating on improving the interactivity of the site.  The latest improvements bring together some of the other elements that I’ve been working on including embracing social networking with our new FaceBook Page, the ability to regular updates via Twitter and the creation of a YouTube Channel.

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Ebays’ feedback system is at the heart of the way that the site works.  Without it there would be absolutely no way of knowing who you could trust and who you should avoid which is why it is crucial that buyers leave honest feedback for sellers that they’ve dealt with.

This was highlighted for me recently when a seller suggested that I rate them highly to avoid them losing their Top-Rated Seller status rather than rating them on their service.

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In my last article (‘How to avoid being scammed on eBay‘) I showed you the key things to check before bidding on an item to avoid to being scammed by an eBay seller.  Now, in this article, I want to show you the top five eBay tricks that unscrupulous eBay sellers use to seperate unwitting users from their cash.

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“C’mon Phil, all misspelled items on eBay are fakes aren’t they ?”  That’s how the email from Tom in Kentucky started.  This guy clearly didn’t believe that eBay sellers genuinely misspelled words, sometimes CRUCIAL words in their listings.  Instead he (wrongly) believed that they were selling fake items with the names deliberately but subtly misspelled to fool innocent buyers.

But is he right ?
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Just lately it seems to be that there are more and more people using sites like Missing-Auctions.com to find misspelled items on eBay.  Now I’m not complaining, it’s nice to be popular

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Before I announce the winners and also an extra special prize that was created to reward the person who made the most entries I’d just like to apologise for the delay in announcing the winners of our eBay misspelling competition.

We’ve had so many entries that it’s taken me many days to work through all of them.  I’ve not been helped by the unseasonally bad weather that we’ve had here in the United Kingdom since before Christmas with another 5″ of snow falling last night which has resulted in school closures again.  As I work from home running a number of websites (Missing-Auctions.com, Auction-Follow.com,  Single-Bid-Auctions.com and theVoucherStore.co.uk among others) having my son around during the day means that I have to drastically reduce the amount of time I spend working on my sites.

However, enough of the excuses, let’s move on to look at the winners.  But before I announce them, here are MY favourite misspelled eBay items out of the 250+ that YOU found.  I’ve linked to each of the items so that you can see just how bad the spellings are !

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Thanks to all of you who have entered our competition to find the best example of misspelled eBay items.  The competition is now closed and I’m slowly working my way through the entries to pick the three winners.  As soon as I’ve finished, the winners will be announced on the Missing-Auctions.com blog.

Thank you for your patience.

Following the launch of our Christmas competition to find the worst misspellings on eBay I’ve been asked by several people how I found the example that I used to illustrate the sort of misspellings that we’re looking for.

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