What Sells on eBay and How to Find the Best Sellers

Do you sell on eBay or have BANS stores that you need to find a niche for? How do you find the best products to sell with the least competition? You need all the information you can get and there's a wealth of information on eBay to find this.

Let's have a look at how to collect this information and how to interpret it to give you the advantage you need to be a top seller.

Free eBay Resources

eBay Pulse

eBay pulse is an excellent way to find current trends and hot picks. Select a category and drill down to find the hottest daily picks. For example I chose Cameras & Photos and came up with these hot picks

• digital camera
• canon
• nikon
• leica
• sony
• hasselblad
• digital
• rolleiflex
• minolta
• camera

What's Hot - Seller Central

"The eBay merchandising team combs trade magazines, gathers predictions from respected industry experts, and looks at eBay sales data to determine what's in demand. Here's the scoop on which hot products will be promoted on the home page, emails, and buyer catalog this season."

Lists can be found under the following headings Art, Antiques & Collectibles, Home, Fashion, Motors, Sports and Technology.

Here's the first few items from the Motors category to illustrate.

• 8-Cylinder Engine
• 1959 Cadillac Eldorado
• Chrome Wheel
• White Wall Tires
• Corbeau Racing Seat
• Exhaust System
• Tail Light
• Pontiac Hood Ornament
• OEM Cadillac Grill
• Corvette Emblem Flags

eBay Want it Now

A great resource to find what buyers have tagged. You can also see the response from sellers to see if the market is well supplied. If there are few sellers you know that's one area to jump into to find products to sell! Takes a while to browse through but worth it if you're a seller.

List 'Most in Demand' and 'Top Gainers' Daily. Another way to find hot selling products.

Finding Best Sellers Using Advanced Search

On any eBay page click on Advanced Search, enter your chosen product, scroll down to 'Number of Bids' and enter 2. Choose 'Ending Soonest' from the drop down menu and perform the search. A good selling product will have a lot of bids. This is an excellent way to find niches for your BANS store!

Non-Freee Bay Resources

Marketplace Research

"Marketplace Research enables buyers and sellers to gather critical intelligence on buying and selling trends in the eBay marketplace. View and analyze top searches, average start prices, average sold prices and much more".

the fee for using this service varies from $2.99 for 2 days with 10 saved searches to $29.99 a month for the Pro membership.

Other On-Line Resources

Terapeak

Excellent array of resources in this well known service. Includes tools to find hot products, price your products and research keywords. eBay UK, Australia, Canada, Germany & France supported. Priced at $24.95 a month

Computer Programs to Buy

Auction Inspector

Auction Inspector analyses posts on the eBay "WANT IT NOW" section and identifies which products are in demand. and which have few sellers supplying that demand. very easy way to find the hottest sellers with the least suppliers. Takes the hassle out of the research and saves the time it would take to do the research manually. One time cost $39.95. Well worth the money!