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Deirdre
eBay Community Development

Today we’ll address one of the top requests we receive from our users – generally it’s prefaced with, “I’ve had some profitable sales on eBay, and want to do more – “

And then the BIG question – “but what can I sell now?”

Once you’ve cleaned out your garage, spare room, and relative’s spare rooms, what next? The trick to launching your future sales is to determine what is selling on eBay and how to sell it. Using local sales, distributors, importers or drop shippers, you can source an amazing array of products right from your laptop computer. Of course, not all of these items are guaranteed to be the next big thing, or products that online shoppers are looking for. How do you determine your next hot seller?

Research! The new features of Terapeak 5.0 allow you to research the hottest products through each category within eBay, and also reveal the actual items eBay buyers are looking for, by reporting on their searches!

Let’s look at some of the ways to find new products using Terapeak’s new Hot Research.

That is one way to get the product ball rolling, but there are others as well. The next report we’ll review is the Hot Product report – these are products that have sold on eBay and are weighted by their sell through rate, average price and amount of items sold.

Drilling through categories here we can see not only items selling, but the pricing metrics and amount of existing competition. Unlike our previous example, this report tracks closed listings, so we see the information on value.



Here is an example of the Hottest Products within the Entertainment Memorabilia category on eBay. This result shows the top sellers over the last 7 days. Sweeny Todd items were super hot, and 35 Marlena Dietrich photos sold for an average price of $22.11!

You can select one of the products, and go directly to a product report if you wish.
Selecting the Marlena Dietrich line opens a report specifically on these items.

The final tool we’ll look at today is the Hot Titles report. This takes the Product report and stretches it to include all the top selling titles in each category. For example, in eBay overall (that’s all categories, across the board) the top selling titles are:



Since this is an overview for all of eBay, it’s pretty predictable. Everyone knows that there are lots of WIIs and car navigation systems, and we can see by this report that the first title sold $89,220 worth in the last 7 days! And that’s just for that specific title, not across the entire product sale!

What’s really cool is if we get more specific. What are the Hottest Titles within categories? This can help you find new items to sell, and determine best keywords for your listing titles!



This is the Hot Titles report within Women’s Accessories, Handbags category over a 30 day period. We can see the top Titles – the top one includes 254 listings with a sell through rate of 65%.

We can sort the report numerous ways, sorting by total sales reveals the top money-maker to be “Coach Purse” ($10,369), (and “Coach Handbag”) but the different styles of Jessica Simpson hair extensions are also top sellers here.

Hello! Do any of the lurkers have questions?

I'm here until lunch!

denise

Hello, I'm a user since over a year and I love it but I use Terapeak in a different way. I take something I've in stock and look if it's worth it selling on eBay if yes, when, how etc... it cuts the leg work by 100%

Hi I am new to the post so forgive if this sounds so repeatative for you. Is the cost fo the program $25.00 a month, and in your opinion do you feel it is worth the costs, and works? I see that it is fantastic, and if you want to be a selling making some money on ebay, that it works.