One of the hardest things that you will have to do to get your home eBay business going is to find items to actually sell. While you can sell just about anything you can imagine on eBay, choosing a popular item that shows consistent success on auction sites will guarantee you steady success. The problem is that without the proper research, you don’t know what the popular items are! To find out what you should be selling on eBay, the best tool to use is eBay itself. Using eBay, you can easily narrow down your options with accurate and current statistics on what is popular with buyers.
The easiest way to get started on your research is by going through eBay by category. Find the advanced search options and look at each category that eBay has listed for selling. Choose a category that interests you, and you will see a list of every auction in that category. You can do one of two things once you have narrowed down a category.
Organize the listings by the highest bid. You can see what items are fetching the highest price on eBay in real time. These items are likely what you want to focus on selling if you want to make a large profit. Once you have a good list of some top-priced items, you can find where to get these items at a discounted price for reselling. Make note of what the starting bid for each item is, what the lowest priced auction is going for, and what the highest priced auction is going for. Your average sale price will be somewhere in between these numbers.
You should also check out the sidebar for the category listings on eBay. You will see a header listing the hot items for that category of the moment. These are also items you may want to focus in on for selling purposes. Go through these items to get a rough idea of what they sell for, and what the average starting bids are from current sellers.
Another way to find the hottest selling items on eBay is by visiting eBay’s popular search terms. You can find these by visiting: http://popular.ebay.com/. This will show you the most popular searches of the moment for each category. Click on a search term under a category, and you can see what kind of items are currently being sold, and what their current going price is.
Some websites offer you a service of finding this information for you, but want to charge you an arm and a leg for the information. Don’t fall for it; the information you’ll pay for is no different than the information you can find yourself with just a few minutes of research. Plus, when you do the research yourself, you can be guaranteed that you are getting the most accurate and up to date statistics on what’s popular on eBay right now. Stick to selling these popular items at a slightly lower starting price, and your eBay business will be taking off in no time!
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Do you think my truck will sell on eBay if I have 51 watchers?In 200 rating you mean feedback right?
November 3rd, 2009 on 7:24 am
Even though your not aloyd to sell food on ebay, Its a pretty perfect banana.
November 3rd, 2009 on 7:24 am
you don’t have to buy a few things first….when I listed my 1st item I had no history with ebay and someone didn’t buy it the 1st time…but it was because I put the price too high and I lowered it and it sold the 2nd time and I didn’t have to pay for the listing fee the 2nd time. Also, most listings I see have a no-return policy so don’t worry about that.
November 3rd, 2009 on 7:24 am
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November 3rd, 2009 on 7:24 am
Nice video Howcast However the only real way to make money on eBay is to establish yourself as a powerseller. I got the kit from TheEbayMoneyMaker, simple step by step instructional DVD’s, you can’t fail, you will make money on eBay! I do
November 3rd, 2009 on 7:24 am
what should i leave as feedback after is sell an item?
November 3rd, 2009 on 7:24 am
Ok thanks ha… so is the X in the XD supposed to be two closed eyes??
Sorry, yes, I am actually that uninformed… not that this information is really all that important… Thanks in advance though… : ) <—- that may represent my facial expression if you help me
November 3rd, 2009 on 7:24 am
its a face
November 3rd, 2009 on 7:24 am
You can sell bananas on eBay?
November 3rd, 2009 on 7:24 am
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November 3rd, 2009 on 7:24 am
I will take your question a step further. Someone bought something from me, filed a complaint saying it was broken. We agreed on a partial refund. A week later the same person had the item they just bought from me, re-listed and it was NOT broken at all. Welcome to Ebay, there is a lot to learn. I wish you luck. Most on there are honest but check others feedbacks as they can speak volumes as to someones character.
November 3rd, 2009 on 7:24 am
I've sold some jerseys on ebay before, and though I made money on them (mine were used, I think I paid them 1$ or something) so I made money but it wasn't worth the effort. And by looking on ebay now, I don't think it's a good idea. sorry.
November 3rd, 2009 on 7:24 am
November 3rd, 2009 on 7:24 am
November 3rd, 2009 on 7:24 am
Lets be honest here ..It's not like the people selling on I offer haven't heard of Ebay …that would be just dumb .. so if there was a market for someones product on ebay , wouldn't that person know about it ?? Sounds like you're just being naive or really really hopeful …ah wake up snap out of it .. the reason they aren't selling stuff on ebay is because it's fake and they 're not willing to take the heat and get shut down / confiscated . prison, court fines having their listings pulled pay pal account closed etc ..etc .. etc ..they are outta the country and don't even guarantee that you'll get your item many times customs will grab it and confiscate it ..(sometimes they'll ship you another one having not much inverted in it ) but I wouldn't bet on it ..
Easy answer >> is it a good idea ?? hell no .. sounds like a really bad idea ..
You're thinkin that's a start .. just keep the ethics and morality in the equation does it hurt anyone ? is it illegal / immoral ? does it help others ?.. illegal ideas are almost always .. a bad idea .. whether it's karma or god ,conscientious or just the right thing .. why take the hit spiritually
November 3rd, 2009 on 7:24 am
November 3rd, 2009 on 7:24 am
November 3rd, 2009 on 7:24 am
It doesn’t matter what you sell. As it is often said, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Most everyone collects or wants something or other.
Actually, you have to look no further than ebay itself. You will not be looking for single item listings but rather your target will be listings that have similar, grouped items. There are ebay ‘vultures’ who just love to swoop down on similarly grouped items in one listing. When they win these auctions, they turn around and sell the items individually and, in most cases, get one and a half to 2 times and sometimes three times what they paid for them on an average item basis. I know this works. When I had more time (read unemployed), I was one of these ‘vultures.’ This is one of those situations where the parts are worth more than the whole. However, do be cautious if you venture into this arena. You have to know your merchandise. Stay in those areas you are familiar with. You can’t jump in blindly to any and every auction that has grouped items.
If you can buy a large lot of similar merchandise for $100 to $200 and turn it around for $300 to $600, it works out very nicely, indeed! Most buyers of these large lots will be vultures as well so you could be ‘butting bids.’ Keep in mind that the higher the closing price at ebay, the less your profit on the turnaround. It’s not an exact science and it does take a little experience to really know what you’re doing but you can’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is. When I see an auction of grouped items it tells me loud and clear that the seller is far more interested in getting rid of their stuff the quickest, easiest way possible and ‘be done with it’ rather than in making a decent profit or profit at all.
Short of items to sell and where to find items to sell? Garage and yard sales, church bazaars, flea markets are obvious. These can be the cheapest sources of merchandise. ‘Junktique’ shops are not that good because these folks know their merchandise. This being the case, it is usually OVERPRICED, not under priced.
If you want to let your fingers do the walking, you too can be crafty ‘vulture’ like a select group of other ebay sellers. Become a member of several smaller auction sites and search for bargains there. But as before, ‘stick with what you know.’
These smaller auction sites are great for buyers for the same reason they are bad for sellers:
Fewer potential bidders = Less competition = Lower closing prices.
Turn them around on ebay:
The ebay formula:
LARGEST auction site by far = MAXIMUM competition = HIGHER closing prices
There are also volume sellers who concentrate on only a handful of popular items by buying in volume / wholesale at a discount and selling at a discount. The average schmo at eBay can’t compete with volume sellers of a particular item.
GOODWILL sometimes also has good bargains, but not always. Mondays / Tuesdays are the best days to visit Goodwill as most people will drop off their donations on Saturdays and Sundays and it has to be cleaned, sorted and marked before it can be placed on display.
GOOD LUCK!
November 3rd, 2009 on 7:24 am