The POWER of eBay Misspelt Items

I was reading through Day Job Nuker and came across a very interesting post on what has to be the biggest hash up I have ever seen when it comes to eBay! misspelt items. Back in June of this year, petere92346 put up a listing for a VERY rare 1852 bottle of Allsopp’s Arctic Ale with the title: allsop’s arctic ale.full and corked with a wax seal – brewed in 1852 for an arctic expedition. The listing included 3 photos and a one paragraph description of the item. The listing got 169 views, 2 bids and a final sale price of US $304.00.

The winning bidder (one very lucky person I must say), collectordan went on to re-list the item on eBay! with the title: Museum Quality ALLSOPP’s ARCTIC ALE 1852 SEALED/FULL!!! – RAREST Historic Beer in the World! AMAZING HISTORY!!! This listing included 13 photos of the bottle and a very long and good 30 paragraph description. This listing got 74064 views, 157 bids and a final sale price of US $503,300.00.

petere92346 misspelt Allsopp’s with one p as Allsop’s and put a period between ‘ale’ and ‘full’. You can view that auction here (please note that it will drop off eBay soon but Day Job Nuker has a screenshot of it). collectordan went on to re-list the bottle with the correct spelling, more photo’s and a very good description which really paid off in the end. You can view that auction here (please note that it will drop off eBay soon but Day Job Nuker has a screenshot of it).

This just goes to show the importance of listing an item correctly on eBay! and also doing a bit of research especially if it is potentially worth a lot. If you haven’t already done so, have a play around with this tool for searching for misspelt items here. You may be lucky enough to find something to sell at a very good profit.