14. What Are 5 Easy Ways To Find Products To Sell On eBay?

Hi.  Welcome!

I have not added to my Blog for ages.  There have been valid reasons.

However, I am back now and ready to share lots of information with you from now on.

Today I  thought I would concentrate on 5 Easy Ways To Find Products To Sell On eBay.

In reference to the Title of my Blog today, I expect the answer to this question actually is determined by one’s understanding, or definition of, the word “easy. “

I believe that the fastest and easiest way for someone to make reasonably good money fairly quickly on the Internet, is by selling items on eBay. This is also great if your desire is to also earn money with other types of Internet Marketing and Network Marketing ventures you need to learn, so that you are earning money with eBay whilst you are learning the other methods.

However, one can earn an excellent income from eBay alone.

What could be simpler to achieving this than a simple-to-understand and follow a 5 step process.

1. Find something to sell.

2. Take a photograph of it, and write a description about it.

3. Upload your listing and photograph to eBay.

4. Collect your money.

5. Post your sale item.

I mean, what could be easier than that?

However I imagine what a lot of people mighy actually  question is how they can easily find, or get, profitable products to sell on eBay.

It is my experience this is what both newbies, and even some experienced eBayer sellers, find hard.

So, in today’s Blog entry, I want to draw attention to 5 extremely easy ways to find, or get products to sell, without even leaving your computer. This will be easy enough to do for everyone.

1. It Is A Must To Have A Photograph

There is definitely no item listed on eBay, or any other online auction sites, that does not get heaps better results when they have a photograph or image included with the listing. Actually, it is a fact that the majority of items that are listed on eBay that do not display any photograph at all, with that item ultimately selling, more often than not fetch at least 20% less for the item than those that do actually display a photograph of the item.

However, in some categories these results can be even higher. For example, clothing items put up for auction without a photograph average an almost 80% lower selling price than those that display a photograph. In fact, as a result of one’s knowledge of all of this, it would then seem to be quite an easy thing to do to look around eBay for those items that do not have photos, purchase them and then re-list them as your own, with a photograph. I am certain this would mean certain money in the pocket.

2. Find A Badly Listed Item.

There are numerous reasons why a people’s listings fail to draw any significant bids. The reasons for this could be such things as: a bad title; a short, or poor description; inserting the item in the wrong category; misspellings, etc. Anybody can locate these sorts of items by browsing around the auction site, but actually there is a simpler way.

Select the categories you are interested in, and take a quick look down the Search feature for the items that are finishing within the next hour. This is where you will uncover excellent deals that have not succeeded in attracting any bids for the reasons already discussed.

3. Not So Good Times

When reading any book on the topic of eBay one will find pointers as to when the best time to finish auctions is.   Mostly it is suggested the best time to list items are Sunday afternoon and evenings, and Wednesday evenings.   This can be different sometimes, as suggested by some experts that business-related items are best listed Monday or Tuesday during office hours. If one recognizes that there are times when they will get higher bids for their items then it is feasible to understand there must also be times when if an auction ends at a certain time one will not do so well.

It is understandable to think if one has an auction that finishes between say 5 am and 8 am on a Monday morning they will not have too many people waiting to place last minute bids in order to move the price up.   Once again, you could purchase those types of items, re-list them and set your auctions to finish at a better time so you can easily make a 20% or more profit for very little effort.

4. Purchase Collections

One of the simplest ways to make money on eBay is to make a profit from other peoples’ laziness or lack of knowledge. For example, if somebody has a collection of 10 china dogs, then it is a fact that if all ten were listed as a collection in a single listing, then they will earn less profit doing this than if they listed each item separately.

However, it is astounding how many sellers cannot be bothered to take the time to do this. In the past I have known of others who have bought a collection of items and actually made more from selling each individual item than had been paid for the entire collection.

5. Other Online Auctions.

Well over 95% of all online auction sales occur on eBay. eBay, by far has the largest number of registered buyers and items listed for sale at their auction site. Therefore, items offered for sale on eBay really do get the best prices. So it is a great idea to search around for some of the smaller online auction sites, because in many cases items listed with them will not draw such good prices as could be achieved on eBay. Then all one would have to do is purchase from them and re-list on eBay for a profit.

So, I hope that these ideas have been helpful as 5 easy ideas for you to consider, and maybe you could give some of them, or of all of them,  a try.

Until next tim…

3 Responses to “14. What Are 5 Easy Ways To Find Products To Sell On eBay?”

  1. Cool tips, Carol, thanks for this. I’ve heard it is quite lucrative to buy from Craigs List and resell on ebay. Good idea there.

    Enjoy the journey.

    Mandy

  2. Hey Carol – taking a peek at your blog via your link’s from Alex’s forum. Nice :-) eBay is a whole are that I feel can be exploited, so you can bet I’ll be back here checking out more of your posts soon.

    Take care,

    Roger

  3. Carol Harridge on July 21st, 2009 at 2:06 am

    Hey Roger. Thanks so very much for taking the time to go and look at my Blog. I really do appreciate it. I love eBay and hope to do even better there. Carol

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