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Tip #7: When things go wrong...

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:30:10 +0000

eBay is constantly evolving and occasionally a change will break FatFingers.com.

In fact this morning I noticed and fixed a problem searching on eBay.com.

If you ever spot Fat Fingers returning nonsense results, drop me an email at feedback@FatFingers.com and I will fix it as soon as I can.

Tip #6: Ignoring extra spaces - when and why?

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:43:00 +0000

Most of the time, it’s worth letting FatFingers.com to look for misspellings with an extra space in it.

For example, someone once told me they’d won an iPod for a quarter of the going price because Fat Fingers had found an ‘i pod’ on eBay.

But for some words this doesn’t work so well. PlayStation is often spelled Play Station and a ‘bedside light’ can be a ‘bed side light’.

In these cases, use the ‘Ignore Extra Spaces’ option and these spelling variants will be ignored.

On the FatFingers.com website, click the ‘[Show Options]’ link and tick ‘Don’t search for extra spaces’. Then press the Find button:

On Fat Fingers for iPhone/iPod touch and for Android devices (free: search for ‘Fat Fingers’ on the App Store or Market) use the options screen:

Tip #5: Get automatic updates for searches

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:16:31 +0000

If you use an RSS reader you can get live updates for a search. Newly listed items will automatically appear in the list.

Do the search on FatFingers.com as normal, then click ‘rss for this search’ that appears and add it to your RSS reader.

You will get a constantly updated results list in your RSS reader.

Need to know more about RSS Readers?

Feedreader for Windows.

NetNewsWire for Mac and iOS devices.

Google Reader for the web.

Tip #4: Use category filtering

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 04:38:37 +0000

Use category filtering in eBay to home in on exactly the items you want.

For example, if you are looking for a flat-panel television, on FatFingers.com search for “Television”. Single word searches gain the best results!

When the results are shown on eBay, use the “Categories” panel on left side of the page and click Televisions then Flat-Panel.

If you are using the Pro version of Fat Fingers for iPhone you can do the same using the “filter” button:

Tip #3: Saved Searches

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:20:00 +0000

Always searching for the same item on FatFingers.com?

There’s an easy way to do this.

Once you’ve done your search, look at the “do more” box.

Click ‘remember this search’ and your search will be added to ‘My Saved Searches’:

Next time you visit, just click on the word and it will search eBay for misspellings and typos of your item.

This is saved in your browser so there is no need for usernames or passwords.

You can setup the same searches for different countries.

If you no longer need the search, click the [X] button to remove it.

Tip #2: Don’t search for plurals. Find more misspelled...

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:53:00 +0000

Tip #2: Don’t search for plurals.

Find more misspelled eBay bargains by looking for the singular version of the word rather than the plural.

For example, search for ‘horse’, not ‘horses’.

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"FatFingers.com Tip #1: The best way to find a bargain is…. to use one word. Searching for..."

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:28:00 +0000

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FatFingers.com Tip #1: The best way to find a bargain is….

to use one word.

Searching for just one misspelled word usually has a better success rate than searching for two or three words.

Instead of searching for ‘Nintendo Wii Console’, try ‘Nintendo’ and use the filter in eBay to limit the result to consoles.

Try it now: FatFingers.com

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Scream if you want to go faster...

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:55:00 +0100

The magic coding pixies have been hard at work and have managed to make all searches much, much faster. Usually about 3 times as quick.

This changes speeds up all FatFingers.com searches - including the new Last Minute Bargains page and Fat Fingers for the iPhone/iPod Touch.

New Feature Alert!

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:59:00 +0100

Thanks to a handy suggestion, there is now a new page on FatFingers.com - Last Minute Bargains.

It does what it says: it finds eBay auctions ending soon that have been misspelled. Misspelled items do not turn up in the regular eBay search and therefore attract very few bids.

Check out the Last Minute Bargains.

Fat Fingers for iPhone / iPod Touch v1.1

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:01:08 +0100

Fat Fingers for iPhone / iPod Touch (free!) has only just been released, but hot on it’s heels is v1.1 which adds the following cool features:

Faster results, faster scrolling
View page in Safari or email the link
Tips page
Fixed the occasional crash

It makes looking for misspelled bargains on eBay an even nicer experience.

It has been submitted to Apple and should be available soon. Download v1.0 now and you’ll automatically get the v1.1 update as soon as it is available.

busy times

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:32:49 +0100

It’s been a busy few months. Lots of improvements to FatFingers.com and the release of Fat Fingers for iPhone / iPod Touch!

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There is now a feedback forum where you can report bugs and suggest new features.

You can now search by eBay category which helps separate items you are interested in.

Also new is the ability to look for parts of the search words that are not misspelled. For example, “sony [phone]” finds phones that have Sony misspelled. Or “playstation [3]” finds misspellings of playstation 3’s but none of the other, older versions.

Fat Fingers for iPhone / iPod Touch

Just released and breaking the top 25 of the Lifestyle (free) category, this gives you the power of FatFingers.com on the small screen. Bag a bargain where ever you are. Download Fat Fingers for iPhone / iPod Touch.

About FatFingers

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:00:57 +0000

So what does FatFingers.com do?

It finds spelling mistakes on eBay. As these items don’t show up the standard eBay search results, they get no bids and you can usually pick them up for the opening price.

Bargain!

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Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:06:13 +0000

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