Products to Sell

Products to Sell on eBay - Choosing Profitable Niches

Before listing auctions or opening a store on eBay, you first want to know what products to sell on eBay. Though there are hundreds of resources like books and website that give you tips and pointers about finding great selling items, your first choice would be by researching eBay itself. Once you log into your account there are several avenues on this site you can look at.

eBay Pulse is one of the best places to start. When signing in you'll see a row of gray buttons in the top right corner, just move your mouse pointer over the "Sell" button and then from the drop down menu select the link "What's Hot." This will bring you directly to eBay Pulse. On the left side of the screen you will see a section called "Popular Searches."

When looking at the 10 most searched items on eBay it appeared that iPod items, iPhones, Nintendo and Xbox 360 consoles dominated the list. Clicking one of the links will pull up all auction and store listings with that keyword in its title. To the right of the "Popular Searches" section you'll find a section called the "Largest Stores." This section lists eBay's 5 biggest stores selling the items listed in the left section. And if you're still looking for clues as to what products to sell on eBay simply scroll down to the bottom of the screen to the "Most Watched Items" section. This will show the 10 most watched listings on eBay's site as of the day you enter eBay Pulse. You are even free to look at them in further detail by clicking on any of their links, and perhaps you'll want to watch some of them yourself.

Instead of doing an overall "popular items searched" inquiry of the entire eBay site you may do a search on any of the categories of products sold on eBay. Simply go to the bottom left corner of the eBay Pulse screen and click the link "See More eBay Pulse Categories." Say you want to know the best selling battery chargers on eBay. Simply select "Electronics" from the "Browse Categories" box on the left and "Batteries & Chargers" group of listings on the right and select the sub-link "Battery Chargers. " This will bring up a screen in the same format as what you've seen when first entering Pulse. Again you'll see the top 10 keyword searches on items relating to batteries and chargers, the top 5 stores selling them, and below, the top 10 watched items in that category.

Besides eBay Pulse, there are several other avenues you can pursue to determine great products to sell on eBay. Click on the "Community" button on the top left corner of the screen and you'll find numerous categories as "Feedback", "Connect", "News", "Education", "Marketplace Safety", and "More Community Programs." In addition, scroll down to the bottom and you'll see more links that lead to various discussion forums and chat rooms. Here people openly share their experiences and give advice and tips about products to sell on eBay.

To anyone wanting to post auctions or open a store on eBay but doesn't know where to begin, I would strongly recommend that they spend time and visit as many of these sections as they can. The more item they spend reading about other people's experiences, the fewer mistakes they'll make when selling online. They should seriously look into this before choosing a drop shippers or alternate sources of finding products to sell on eBay. The more input they receive by observing what others are doing on eBay, the more prepared they will be before listing their first items they hope to sell.