Let’s cut to the chase and tell you how to find the best things to sell on eBay.

1. Head over to eBay pulse. This delivers a snapshot of the eBay marketplace. eBay Pulse features top 10 popular searches, popular stores, popular products and those with highest price.

2. You’ll be presented with the “popular searches” on the left hand side. The top 10 in the UK is currently: U K, cars, UK, next, mobile phones, laptop, river island, wii games, topshop and xbox 360 games.

3. This list is OK, but far too generic. Click on the category drop down list, let’s choose “Cars, Motorcycles & Vehicles”. We’re presented with this list:

1. left hand drive lhd

2. cars

3. spares or repair

4. classic cars

5. mini

6. bmw

7. mercedes

8. range rover

9. vans

10. vauxhall corsa

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Notice what’s a position number 10 “Vauxhall Corsa”. You could do a search for cheap “Vauxhall Corsa’s” in your area, buy low and then place on eBay to sell high. Note: Best time to finish a car auction is Sunday afternoon, giving the buyer enough time to collect.

Unfortunately, 99% of people that read this article won’t follow this simple but effective strategy, which is a shame. Let’s hope you’ll be a little more daring! Find out how you can dominate markets and align yourself with other Powersellers on eBay by using some easy to use Internet marketing tools.

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Des Drec is an Internet Marketer & Strategic eBay Marketer. He’s given up his day job to work online full time. In the process he’s actually helping more people to do this too!

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Starting out

Tons of eBay sellers start out by selling clutter from their homes, and for an excellent reason. Chances are that by selling these items online, you’ll most probably get more money than you would have at a garage or jumble sale. I’m sure you have tons of stuff that you’ll never use or that your really don’t need anymore, laying around accumulating dust. Why not give our easy way to make money on eBay – uncover hot niche items guide a try to see how many worthless items you can get rid of.

Afraid to try something new?

Are you afraid to try something new in the form of parting with something you already own? Then it would be recommended that you start with products you know and have experience with.

It’s important that whatever the item may be that it demonstrate market demand or else it will just be a waste of time and effort. Steer clear from only selling things you like, or that which are trendy, high fashion or cool. If profit is your goal, then you need to sell items other people will like and result in a purchase.

Have a look what’s on offer
Before you think about selling a specific item, it would be best do an eBay search to see if that product or similar ones are on offer. I like to try eBay Pulse first before I do anything else. A saturated market will result in to much competition. While on the other hand, if no one else is offering the product for sale, you need to find out whether its because no one else has thought of it, or if it’s just not a popular product.

Issues to think over
Whether you have a specific product or product line in mind or if you are still trying to come up with ideas in terms of uncovering hot niche items, a couple of issues need to be considered including but not limited to:

Price

What will the price of the item be?
Cost compromises of a lot more that the price on the item. Will you need to borrow the money or do you have the cash to obtain inventory items?
Will there be additional expenses in the form of shipping or repairs?

Storage
Do you have adequate storage facilities for the items while you wait for sale?

Shipment
What will exact shipment as well as associated costs for the item in question be once its sold?
Is it fragile, an unusual shaped or particularly heavy?
These are factors that make shipping a little more difficult as well as expensive.

Product life cycle
How long will the expected demand for the item to continue? The majority of high-tech items are at a higher risk of having a short life cycle because of technology changes and advances. Profits can easily be maximized if proper attention is paid to product life cycles.

Season
The time of year plays an important role in your eBay listing. For example warm clothing will not sell during warm months such as Summer and Spring. Should you have storage facilities, good profit can be made with off-season item investments.

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on eBay?

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DesDrec teaches and consultants with small business owners and would be entrepreneurs how to fully leverage the great marketplace that is eBay. DesDrec says, “If you have the desire and will to succeed online then I can give you the tools to be successful.”

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Making a money on eBay is easy. However, making a living on eBay is extremely difficult and it’s going to take some time and patience to learn the correct strategies, what to sell and when to sell it.

Instead of following the crowd and trying to sell the sexy items such as electronics. You know, iPods, and Xbox 360’s. You really need to do some research to find out other niche ideas available in the marketplace. Believe it or not, there’s some gems out there that simply need to be discovered.

4 Simple Steps To Follow

1. Go to eBay pulse to find out what’s hot and already selling well on eBay. Delve and drill down into each category to find a niche item that doesn’t sell in spades but where the customers buying them already have there credit cards out.

2. To find out if they have their credit cards out. Click on one of the categories and click a link on the left hand panel marked “completed listings”. You’ll need to be signed into eBay to use this function.

3. Once your results come up. Anything sold will listed with a green price and anything that didn’t sell will be marked with a red price. Obviously if you see a lot of green prices, you can rest assured this is a great niche market where you’ve also got a decent amount of buyers.

4. At this point decide whether or not you want to enter this market. if you do, then the next step is to purchase this items from one of the sellers that sells quite a lot of this particular item.

The Reverse Reconnaissance Method

The purpose of purchasing one of these items is a system I like to call “the reverse reconnaissance method”. In essence you’re trying to find out which delivery company was used, how and what it was packaged in. Make notes of where the item came from. The information is Intel gold. If the sellers been lazy they won’t even bother to repack this item into other packaging. They’ll more likely ship it in its original packaging.

Why Reinvent The Wheel?

You can now use this information to obtain your products from the same place, use the same delivery company etc etc. This seller would have tested everything from the best wholesale source of this product to the most efficient delivery company to use. Why reinvent the wheel?

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Read on and I’ll tell you….

If you’ve got any interest in eBay at all you’ll want to check this out:

http://www.multimediacavern.com/mmcblog/2008/09/free-ebook-track-your-ebay-listings-like-a-pro/

Why am I giving away a free ebook about ebay listings?

In life, I find it’s not all about take, take, take. Sometimes you’ve got to give a little back.

Am I mad? maybe.

Am I a caring soul? Probably not.

Do I want the competition to know all my secret little ebay tactics? Not really.

I suppose most people that read stuff like this on blog posts don’t even get round to implementing half the stuff they read. Take me for example. I’m halfway through 4 eBooks and 2 study courses. Kind of embarassing really

Your comments are welcome and don’t forget to follow me on twitter.

To your success,

DesDrec

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Just a short post today since it’s now 2am and I’ve been working on various projects for 12 hours straight and really need to hit the sack!

Being the type of bod that’s anal about statistics (sad I know). I came across a really interesting statistic that I’d like to share.

I’ve been doing some testing on ebay auction pages with:

long sales page vs short sales page vs short sales page with video

Here are my results:

1. People tended to stay on my page a lot longer when there was a video clip embed. No huge surprise there then. What is interesting though is that the people that bought watched the whole video and the vast majority of browsers watched anywhere between 20-40 seconds in. Hence short clips are better in the long run. I’m also toying with the idea of keeping the clips silient as a lot of people are viewing at lunch time/15mins before they finish and don’t appreciate voice commentary blasting over the speakers.

2. Short sales page – If the item for sale is fairly basic and self explanatory, people tend to purchase the item faster and stay on the page anywhere from 10-40 seconds. No point in writing a long sales page, with attention spans running at an all time low, why bother.

3. Long sales page – If the item for sale is fairly unique or new onto the market then people tend to read the whole page and stay on the page for around 30 seconds. They also seem to return more frequently, in some cases 7 or 8 times. SCARY!

Putting everything aside, what I found most interesting was the amount of market researchers (competition) that looked at my auction pages and the amount of times they came back. On average they visited an auction page about 4 times which really blew my mind. I mean I don’t mind the visits, heck I do alot of research myself, but 4 times is pushing it a bit.

So when you see several hits on your hit counter, you can bet your bottom dollar that the majority of the hits have come from your competition, not just once, but several times. I suppose what I find really odd is why they need to return to the page 4 times in 10 mins? Beleive it or not that’s really common.

One of the biggest things I learnt today was cross promotion. If you can have several auctions that have a similar theme etc, people tend to view and possibly purchase two items from the same category. That said, I’m gonna make the time next week to work on this as sales have shot up by 50%
with the use of cross promotions.

What are your thoughts?

DesDrec.
P.s. My stats are from sellathon

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I’ve just finished reading a new blog post by ebay strategies and had to read it a second time to make sure what I read was correct. Unfortunately it was.
The original post was by a German blogger and I don’k think it has really hit the headlines because it has only just been translated.

Here’s the crux of the story:

eBay Germany is starting a new policy. From June 15 a seller cannot list any items again with shipping costs higher than what eBay has determined to be a reasonable rate in certain categories.

eBay is starting this for 2 main reasons:

1. eBay asked buyers about shipping and for the categories to where this new policy applies, buyers said that shipping costs were unreasonable high.
2. eBay sellers get low rating for S&H DSR in those specific categories.

Now, from what I can tell, this is only being tested in Germany and if successful, like most ebay trials they’ll roll it out quicker than you can say “ebay traffic police”.

Have ebay gone too far? To be honest, as a commercial enterprise, ebay can basically do what they want within the guidelines of the law.

As I’ve always said, we can either jump and down and stamp our feet, or get on with it. It’s definately one to watch though.

I must admit, my strategy has changed in the past few weeks and I’m tending to charge my clients a lower delivery cost than I was doing before, only since ebay changed their feedback ratings. The products I tend to ship are of low value and quite small, though I can see a lot of large volume high end sellers being drastically affected if this is rolled out. Hold on to your hats!!

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I’ve just a produced a small video about responding to feedback in your ebay auctions. To be fair, this isn’t a new idea and there are many people that think it’s a complete waste time. I however, have found it really effective!

As always, your comments are welcome. If you found the video useful, please digg using the panel below.

Thanks,

DesDrec

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Everybody knows that If you resell licensed software on eBay or elsewhere you’re violating copyright laws? aren’t you?

Timothy Vernor, a Seattle eBay powerseller, doesn’t think so. On Thursday, a federal judge in Seattle upheld his right to sue Autodesk, after the California software company prevented him from reselling used copies of AutoCAD drafting software online.

This guy basically makes his living selling items on eBay like a lot of us and in 2005, he bought a used copy of AutoCAD at a garage sale and put it up for sale on eBay. Little did he know that he was in big trouble!

Autodesk filed several Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) notices with eBay, claiming the sale violated its copyright. eBay suspended Vernor’s auction. Vernor countersued, and eBay eventually reinstated his auction.

Autodesk moved to dismiss the suit, but were unsuccessful to say the least. Judge Richard Jones of the U.S. District Court Western District of Washington allowed the case to proceed in his ruling Thursday.

It seems like this is a case to highlight what many of us fear when listing licensed products?

Your thoughts are also welcome.

DesDrec

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See my video below:

Your comments are always welcome.

DesDrec

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I must admit, this caught me a little bit by surprise. I remember reading something a few months ago about eBay changing their feedback policy and i must admit, I forgot all about it with all the digital download changes.

I won’t lie. My feedback has gone down a little bit since ebay is now calculating neutral feedback towards overall feedback.

What can you do? Jump up and down, stamp your feet, fire off loads of different posts on various forums. To be honest, there’s nothing you can do. You’re probably best off getting on with your business and trying to give fantastic customer service. This is ultimately what eBay is after “giving great customer service”.

I also noticed that quite a few people with powerseller status basically lost this overnight. Ouch!

I mostly sell digital items burnt to disk and ALWAYS get my items out the same day, always nicely packaged, and I even have a support link on the disk if my client has any problems. If you’re not already doing so, try and treat your clients like royalty and over deliver where possible. You’ll get rewarded for it!

If you want to learn more about the new changes click here.

As always, feel free to comment.

DesDrec

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