I've mispelt in my listing title!

stuart1266

I guess it's a daft question, but I've mispelt the word 'diamond' in the title on my listing. There are 2 bids against it (probably due to the fact it was mis-spelt!) so I can't change the heading. Any ideas as to how I can change, or even if I can???

smartie1976

I don't think you can. The best think you can do if you don't want to cancel your auction is make sure the listing includes the word diamond, and hope that people use the "search title and listing" option.

smellybum

There may be anouther way to do this but this way has worked for me.

Set up anouther account. this only takes a few minutes
"Add a buy it now" feature to your product
Use the new account to buy the product.
The listing is now over and you can list again.

It is likely that the 2 bids you have on your item have only been placed because the item has been missspelt and they know that they can get it cheap and resell it.

There are numerous search engines that search ebay for misspelt items.
I use this often to buy from ebay and get products for aroung 30% of the cost they should be.

soolin

smellybum wrote:

There may be anouther way to do this but this way has worked for me.

Set up anouther account. this only takes a few minutes
"Add a buy it now" feature to your product
Use the new account to buy the product.
The listing is now over and you can list again.

It is likely that the 2 bids you have on your item have only been placed because the item has been missspelt and they know that they can get it cheap and resell it.

There are numerous search engines that search ebay for misspelt items.
I use this often to buy from ebay and get products for aroung 30% of the cost they should be.

Two major problems with the idea. Firstly you can't make changes to an auction once you have bids, so a BIN can't be added.

Secondly and more worrying, using a second account to interfere in any way with your existing account is completely frowned upon, and is likely to get both accounts suspended if caught.

A minor point as well is that the OP has then incurred listing fees, a BIN fee and Final value fees. I can't see why that is easier than cancelling the existing bids and removing the auction completely.

Soo

rdwarr

stuart1266 wrote:

I've mispelt in my listing title!

Er, isn't that "misspelled"?

Seriously, I wouldn't worry. Many people look for wrongly spelled items now and always assume that they are bargains. You may do well out of it!

stuart1266

Yes, spelling isn't my strong point. I might just leave it misspelled (!) as I've already had over 70 hits and 6 watchers. The reserve is reasonable too.