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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.

UPDATE: Competition now closed, winners will be announced soon.

Earlier today we rolled out a new version of Missing-Auctions.com.  If you’re thinking that it looks exactly the same as the old version then you’re right !  But behind the scenes the engine that searches eBay for misspelled words has been completely rewritten and now finds more misspelled eBay items than ever before.

And to celebrate this fact, we’re holding a competition between now and December 31st with $100 in prizes.

To stand a chance of winning all you need to do is to use Missing-Auctions.com to find the best misspelled eBay auction you can.  Post your entries as a comment on this post with the item number (it’s in the ‘Other item info’ box), the auction title and the words that are misspelled.  An example is shown below.

Entries close at midnight on 31st December when we’ll pick three winners.  The best misspelled eBay auction will win a $50 eBay Gift Certificate, with $30 and $20 going to second and third places.  The winners will be announced on the Missing-Auctions.com blog and will also be contacted by email.

Rules:

1. If two people find the same item, the first person to find it will be considered as the original finder.
2. Entries must be found on the primary English language eBay sites (United States, Greate Britain, Australia or Canada)
3. Should the winner(s) not be based in the US, then the prizes will be the equivalent of $50, $30 or $20 in the winners local currency in the form of an eBay Gift Certificate.
4. Entries close on December 31st at midnight
5. Winners will be notified by email