As an eBay Education Specialist I am asked time and time again, “what should I sell on eBay ?”, or another question is “How do I know this will sell?” Well there are some very simple methods.

1) Ask you Children and their friends if this is a product they would buy……. Children are always up on these things
2) Ask people at work – you can get a good felling if people say yes or no, but also ask them why.
3) Ask family and friends.
4) You can look online and look at Google.

Now while all those are good and very often I will use at least one of those, for if everyone says yes I almost have the answer to “What Should I Sell On eBay “. I would buy one and it all fails at least you know you will get your money back or just make a small loss. But there is another way which can give you all the information you would ever need and then some. You would be able to see what is known as sell through rate………..

This is a % figure that tells you if a product is good or not, for instance is it says the sell through rate is 25 % then you would have a 1 in 4 chance of selling but if it say’s 100% you know for every item you put up for auction it will sell.You can see what the best day and time to list and finish an item, you can spy on what others are selling and how well their items are selling.Now the cheap way is to go into eBay, click on advanced search, the type in the item you want to search for and click on completed lists, very soon you get a listing back.Now click on sort from highest to lowest and look for all the green listing (this means they have sold), now you can click on on each listing and make a note.OK I can hear you say, Andrew I do not have the time for all this, Ok I know it takes time but would you rather take the time now than end up with boxes of item you cannot sell. But stop, take a deep breath, there is a way, there are software programs and websites out there that for a small fee will allow you to tap into their data-base (This data base is a direct feed from eBay) and from this data base it is all laid out into graphs, charts and listings. all you need to do is add the keyword, click a few buttons and within seconds you get all the information in front of you. If you use this information, you will be way ahead of others who just buy and sell blind or use the long way I mentioned earlier. And very soon your sales will go up and even better the items you list will be selling better as you now know what to list, on what day and what time. I have tried many of the programs and my currant favourite is Terapeak, they seem to know what they are doing, and lay out all the data from eBay in an easy to understand fashion.

Hope this answers your question to “What Should I Sell On eBay”