eBay Auction Seller's Guide to Finding Hot Money Making Products
Author: Leroy Chan
You might be one of the thousands of individuals who open a trading
account with eBay and dream about making auction selling a full-time
home-based business.
However, before that dream can become a reality, you need to do many
important things while running an auction business.
One of these important things to do is to pick the right products to
sell. The right products to sell are the ones that people on eBay want
or will buy.
eBay tells you what people actually want and what people actually will
buy in four areas of its website.
In Demand
One of these four areas on eBay's site is the "In Demand" section.
There is an "In Demand" link for each of the main categories on eBay.
Listed in these areas are the previous month's top ten products that
people wanted and the top ten searches for each subcategory. To see the
data in these areas follow the link below and when you reach the page,
scroll down and click on the link "In Demand" under any of the
categories shown.
http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/sellbycategory.html
Hot Categories Report
The next area containing information on finding what to sell on eBay is
the "Hot Categories Report." This report lists the "fastest growing"
categories on eBay for the previous month. The explanation for what
eBay considers "hot" can be hard to understand on your first reading.
Nevertheless, the important thing to know is that the categories listed
are the ones were buyer demand for the items under those categories are
growing faster than the seller supply. This report is a PDF file so you
will need Adobe® Reader® to open it. Here is the link:
http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/hotitems.pdf
eBay Pulse
"eBay Pulse" is another area where you can figure out what people are
looking for on "The World's Online Marketplace®." It contains a
category's daily snapshot of the ten most popular searches and the
stores with the most active listings. A subsection on "eBay Pulse,"
known as "Most Watched Items," reveals the ten auctions that are
getting the most attention. Visit this page and select a category to
study from the drop-down menu.
http://pulse.ebay.com
Merchandising Calendar
The last area with information on what to sell on eBay is the
"Merchandising Calendar." Here, eBay shows you the categories they will
promote on their homepage each month. This is where eBay "tells" you
what to sell. You can ignore their calendar and sell anything you
choose, but wouldn't it be easier to make sales if you took advantage
of eBay's promotional influence? Look at this page and use the calendar
as a guide in planning your inventory and listings.
http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/calendar.html
Last Thoughts
Now that you have the links to data that tells you what people will buy
on eBay, you can look forward to listing these items and making sales.
The next step is finding the wholesale or drop-ship sources that carry
those items that are "In Demand." That is when you will be one-step
closer to achieving your goal of making a living from eBay.
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