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10 Great Ways To Source Low Cost Products For Ebay.
So you're having trouble finding stock cheaply enough to sell it for a good profit? Well, you've come to the right place.
Garage sales. The chances are you've gone most of your life seeing ads for these and ignoring them. Start going to as many as...
eBay Thieves Make Auctions Tougher
The online auction world was shocked by the biggest eBay fraud in its seven year history. What made it even more astonishing is the fact that the crooked seller has a five history of successful sales on eBay, accompanied by thousands of glowing...
Keeping records of your Ebay business: Part 2
In part one of this ebay article series we introduced you to the
importance of keeping a proper paperwork trail of everything
pertaining to your ebay home business profits. We discussed how
keeping detailed records of every area of your ebay...
The Easy Money Earner Using eBay
A brilliant idea I ran across the other day meant I could get a large cash sum in about 3 days.
All it meant is that I bought an item on eBay which had resale rights and struck up an agreement with a powerseller.
Before I explain...
The Top Sellers On eBay & We Can Learn From Them
A fascinating eBay case study is the number one seller on eBay, a little outfit called Marie's CDs, but is better known under its old name "1 Cent CD." Jay and Marie, current ID "jayandmarie", are an institution on eBay and are a big part of what...
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How To Determine What's Really Selling On Ebay.
If you want to make the most money you can on eBay, then you
need to know what sells. But how can you find that out?
The Manual Way.
If you're just starting out, you might find it easier to simply
go to your category, tick 'Completed listings' in the left-hand
menu, and then click the 'Show items' button. Sort them by
highest price first, and there you have it: the items that sell
for the highest prices. In most categories this will change
often, but it's still useful to know - if you think you can get
an item quickly for less than the kind of prices it is selling
for, then go for it.
eBay's search interface can be slow and hard to use, however,
and you're unlikely to discover everything you could learn this
way. There's more than one way to do things, though.
The Statistical Way.
If you'd prefer to do a little hardcore statistical analysis to
determine what's selling and what not, then don't worry - you
can do that too.
eBay make all their market data available to third-party
developers through what's called a 'programming interface' -
this basically means that you have a wide choice of programs
that can take market statistics from eBay and analyse them for
you. Type 'ebay analysis' into a search engine for a long list.
In my opinion, some of the best eBay statistics tools out there
are made by Andale (http://www.andale.com). Andale
are one of the oldest and most established sellers of services
for eBay. However, their solution is
web-based, and you may
prefer to buy a piece of software that you can install on your
computer, such as AuctionIntelligence.
These automated programs will almost do everything for you, and
come with help and tutorials. You should be aware, however, that
eBay charge them for the data, which means that they will never
give you their programs for free.
Keep Your Finger on Pulse.
If you want a quick, big-picture snapshot of what people are
looking to buy on eBay, then go to http://pulse.ebay.com. This is a
page where eBay list the top 10 most searched for words, and the
top 5 largest eBay stores.
Looking at it, it's easy to spot current trends. For example,
right now all of the top stores are selling media items, either
books or music. That suggests that these are good things to be
selling, at least if you want to shift volume. Right now the
word 'ipod' is at number 4, and 'ipod mini' is at number 6 -
there are a heck of a lot of people out there looking for a
cheap iPod or iPod mini. If you could find a good supplier for
them then you could make a lot of money.
If you're having trouble finding suppliers, though, don't worry:
there's more than one way to get hold of things to sell on eBay.
The next email will give you a few tips.
About the author:
Kirsten Hawkins is an Ebay and internet auction enthusiast from
Nashville, TN. Visit http://www.auctionseller411.com/ for more
great tips on how to make the most from Ebay and other online
auctions.
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