A thrifty tip for eBay fiends

A great site called fatfingers.com, which is free to use, exploits eBay sellers’ orthographic shortcomings.

It searches out the thousands of eBay auction items that are currently listed with titles and descriptions containing spelling mistakes. These auctions often expire with no bids, as potential buyers do not find them.

I ran a few keyword searches on fatfingers.com, to see what was around. At the time of writing Manolo, Jimmy Choo and Zac Posen all drew up blanks. If you are searching for Canon, Minolta, Armani or Diane von Furstenberg, however, you may get lucky…