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If you’re reading this then there’s an excellent chance that you’re an experienced eBay seller.  Whether it’s selling items that you have laying around the house, have bought from yard sales, maybe sourced from wholesalers, made yourself or even misspelled ebay items that you’ve found and purchased using Missing-Auctions.com you’re pretty unusual.

Why ?  Because for every seller on eBay there are tens, maybe hundreds, of other people that either don’t use it at all or they only buy.  Just think of your own family and friends – how many of them use eBay to buy and how many of those also sell on eBay ?  Very few, I’ll bet.  That’s where eBay Trading Assistants can help – they sell other peoples items for a commission of the final sale price and it can be a lucrative business to be in, if done correctly.

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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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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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One of the least exploited ways of making money on eBay is to buy misspelled eBay items with the intention of relisting them so that they sell for a higher price. This process is known as eBay arbitrage and can be an excellent way to make money as it does not require large quantities of stock to be held.   Read on for details of the tools you need and the steps to take to profit from other peoples eBay misspellings.

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