eBay Auction Tools
If you really want to make money on eBay, you need to make
use of all the eBay auction tools available. Some tools help
you find what products will sell best, while some help you find
suppliers of those products. Some tools are free, and others
charge a fee for their services.
Tools to Help You Know What to Sell
The following tools are available which can help you
research what products have the best chances of successfully
selling on eBay. While many people want to sell the
trendiest items out there, trendy products have the most
competition, and may not be the best product for you to
sell. You need to know which items have high demand, but
low competition. What auction tools out there can help
you find the products you should sell?
Worldwide
Brands: Worldwide Brands offers a wide array of tools for
you to be a successful eBay seller, including a research tool
which tells you what will be a good item to sell on eBay. For
example, let's look at iPods. When I run iPods in the Worldwide
Brands research tool, I am given a score of 23%, making it a
difficult item to sell. You'd be surprised at which products
give scores of 60% and above. The fee for joining Worldwide
Brands is $299 per year for a LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP. If you only
have your online business for 10 years that's just under $30 a
year. Check them out: Worldwide
Brands.
eBay Research by Terapeak: Terapeak is
another online service which offers an amazing amount of
information for eBay Sellers, including when to sell, and
what to sell. Terapeak's software actually finds products
for you which are consistently high in demand. The price for
Terapeak starts at $24 per month, with $2.95 per month more
for certain add-ons, such as the Hot Product Search I just
described above. $24 a month may seem like a lot, but, if
you want to live off your eBay business, it's really an
indispensible tool. Check it out: eBay Research by Terapeak 
eBay Pulse: You can research popular
items in different categories by going to eBay and going to the
eBay Pulse page. Free.
Popular Searches Page on eBay: The
popular searches page on eBay will show you popular searches by
category. Free.
eBay WantItNow Page: The WantItNow
page on eBay lists those items which people want but can't
find. These, then are items with very low
competition. You can search through it and see if there
are several people wanting the same item, which shows you the
demand for the product. Free.
Auction Inspector: While the WantItNow
feature of eBay can be a goldmine for sellers, it can also
be incredibly tedious to go through. That's where the
Auction Inspector comes in. The Auction Inspector is
software which goes through the many thousands of requests
on WantItNow, taking the number of requests for the products
and the number of responses of sellers, determining which
products are those with the highest potential for you. The
cost for Auction Inspector is $39.95, with a 60-day
money-back guarantee. Check it out at Auction Inspector
Tools Which Help You Find the Products
Once you've determined which products you should sell, how
do you actually find the products?
Worldwide
Brands: I love worldwide Brands. Not only do they offer a
ton of educational materials on their site, but they also have
some of the best product sourcing products and services around.
In addition to the fabulous product research tools listed
above, they also will give you the names and contact info for
companies where you can buy the products wholesale, and those
which will drop ship for you. Often you can just click through
to the companies, which have been pre-screened by Worldwide
Brands, and which have agreed to work with eBay sellers (you'd
be surprised, but many won't). Worldwide Brands has access to
suppliers offering over 8 million different products. And,
what's more important, none of those suppliers are middlemen.
They are true wholesale dropshippers. Check them out at
Worldwide
Brands
Salehoo: Salehoo is similar to Worldwide
Brands, although they don't have the extensive amount of
research. Salehoo offers access to over 8,000 product
suppliers. Cost is $67 for a LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP. Check them
out at Salehoo
Reseller Marketplace by eBay: Reseller
Marketplace is a service on eBay which allows sellers to find
wholesale suppliers and dropshippers. It's a great service,
but, unfortunately, it's only open to eBay Powersellers. But,
if you're a Powerseller, it's a great service to take advantage
of.
Liquidation.com: Liquidation.com is a
wholesale auction site where you can go bid on wholesale lots.
There are small lots of 2 on up to lots of hundreds.
Government Auctions & Foreclosures:
GovernmentAuctions.org has items for auction that come from
government seizures, liens, etc. They list auctions all over
the country. Cost is $39.95 per year for unlimited access.
Check them out at
Government Auctions & Foreclosures.
No-Bids.com: No-Bids.com is for those
sellers who want to buy low on eBay with the hopes of reselling
at a higher price. This is a free tool which finds those
auctions which are ending soon with no bids. No bids can
often mean you're getting something for a steal.
Free.
Auction-Typos.com: This site is for
those sellers wanting to find eBay auctions where the seller
has misspelled the item's name in the title. Sometimes
you can find items that are selling for cheap because the item
is misspelled, meaning the buyers aren't directed to the
auction. You type in a misspelling and the tool will show
you which auctions apply. Free.
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