How To Find Bargains On eBay
Back in 1995 when eBay just started out it was really a small auction house, almost like a virtual garage sales. And it remained that way for many years. But now it has all changed. And you hear many sellers whining and complaining about that.
It was a great way to find a real bargain, something that we would have to pay $150 for in your store bought on eBay you found it for 110.
Nowadays, it has gotten a lot more difficult to find a real bargain. But in this article I just want to share some simple tricks that help you to spot these are games that still pop up in the thousands every day on eBay.
One of the most common ways to find bargains on eBay is to make use of the many free websites that help you to find misspelled auctions.
And the way that works is that you go to one of these sites and enter the item that you are looking for on eBay. You click on search and the website is going to search for misspelled items for you. It will then bring you to the eBay site and show you all the results.
Let me give you an example. Let’s say you are looking for a digital camera. What you can then do is that you just type in camera into the misspellings finder, and it will come up for you with all the misspelled auctions on eBay. I in fact did that and some of the results that showed up are: “CANON POWERSHOT PRO1 BLACK 8.0 MEGAPIXEL DIGITAL CAMER”, “DIGITAL CAMMERA CASIO EXILM EX-Z75 7.2 MEGAPIXELS”, and “Kodak easyshare md853 digital camrea nikon cannon” - you see, instead of camera they wrote camrea, camer or cammera. That is why less people find them and that these auctions get less bids, and often go for a lower price.
Another way to find bargains is to look for the item you are interested in on eBay. Look for how much it sells normally. Write that number down.
Then go back to the ebay homepage and click on “advanced search”.
There, you enter the item you are interested in. (Example: Apple iPhone 8GB AT&T)
Then you click on “Show items priced for” and enter the amount that you are willing to pay for it.
Now you click on search. At the results page, you click on “Save this search” and activate “Email me daily when new items match my search” and select the time period that you want to be notified for (I always chose 6 months, and just switch it off once I found the item).
Now, if you do exactly this way there is a high chance that you will be bombarded with too many irrelevant auctions. That is simply because every time somebody puts in an auction with a starting price is below what you are willing to pay you will get notified, but since the auction has not yet ended it is very likely that the price will go up a lot more. That is why there are some other options in the advanced eBay search function that you want to use in order to make sure that only real bargains show up in your e-mail box.
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