Auction Sniper & Ebay Typo Locator

That is interesting. Didn't know there was such a thing! I will check it out! Thanks!

Try this, it's free!!

>> Here <<

Pete

<SIGH> Another advertisement....

Sorry chatter, I wasn't advertising, this is something I just found on the net and thought it may be useful.

Pete

It appears that the program is no longer available through Download.com. Is this the same product?

http://www.gmfsoftware.com/eBayTypoAuctionLocator.html

I collect Crouse - Hinds stuff and a common mis-spelling is "Hines"; I suppose that this could be useful.

Pete, a better way, especially for someone new to the forums, might be to tell us about the product first. Then, if someone asks you to share a link, do so. In that way, you do not seem like the countless three or four-post wonders who come in here, pretend to talk, then drop an ad for their products.

Thanks for the apology, though, and welcome to the forum.

Chatter, you're right, of course, and thanks.

Teester, yes it is. I couldn't find it on download.com so I googled "ebay typo" which gave me a number of different applications.

The one I settled on doesn't involve any downloading - it runs in your browser, and, unlike the alternatives, shows all its misspellings in one line seperated by commas (it has the option to include the correct spelling or not).
You only have to make one ebay search, instead of having to do them all individually. Then you can save the search, as you know, and get a notification if anything comes up.

Plus it's free!!!

Pete.

Pete,

You’re no longer a “four-post wonder”. I guess a 4-poster would be better than a “one- or two-post wonder”. Sounds like it’s OK to leave beneficial links from now on.

Say, I thought a Captain outranked a Snipeaholic. Oh well, live and learn.

New to AS, or just to the forum?

Hi Rick,

Been running AS for a couple of months now, but only discovered the forum a few days ago.

The "Captain" comes from a character I played in a role-playing game. It just kinda stuck.

Pete

I am not sure you need this product - even for free!

I tried it and all it does is put a series of alternatives (random generated of course!) into the search box with a comma separator.

Now, if you have any knowledge of the product your looking for, you can do the exact same thing and not generate the vast amount of false positives that this programme does.

I tried it on one word "iloca" and got about 250 results to sort through. I know from experience that there are three common ways of mispelling this particular camera's name, so putting these in gives me only about 30 results to sift through. In other words, its like electric car windows - the solution can be more trouble than the ideas worth! (slightly biased comment here, having spent the past hour trying to get a stuck down one come up before it rains!)Technology doesn't always come up with the right answers!

Paul, Pauls, Paull, Pual, Porl

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In other words, its like electric car windows - the solution can be more trouble than the ideas worth!

I LIKE power windows! Umm...well, there was that time I fried a power window motor lowering it to pay a toll in below 0 (F) temperatures! Rest of that trip was DANG COLD!!!!

I guess you're right, Camera! "The more they over-complicate the plumbing the easier it is to stuff up the drains"

"Iloca"? Never heard of that one. I have a Fifties Adox though.

Emo

I find the word 'Bakelite' it probably top of the misspellings - a 64k long string pointer may not cope , and the most common are the surprising variants of 'original' and 'definitely'.
The mind boggles when someone cannot even spell what they are actually looking at - like:
Ecko (Ekco) Citreon (Citroën) Furguson (Ferguson)
The funniest ones are things like 'dates from 1920 to 1970' and the like, and 'Haven't got a battery/plug so cannot try it'.

Handwritten sign on a stack of new Japanese vacuum cleaners in a shop, each in its box marked clearly "Vacuum Cleaner";

"SPECIAL!!!!
VACUME CLEANERS
$XXX.XX"

True story.

GG

Must be the Aussie in me, I didnt see Pete's apology as a *sorry I did that*, I saw it more as a *Sorry - you are wrong*.

I would of thought the apology should of come from the other direction.

Neither here nor there I guess, but I think it is quite rude to new forum members to tell them how to post.

Gee - its nice to be back