| If you are a new seller, my initial advice would be to | | | | have the contacts to buy the merchandise. The |
| gain experience of eBay selling by cleaning out your | | | | problem is that you are competing with major retailers. |
| garage or attic.Start by selling used goods, small | | | | One way you can succeed selling consumer |
| appliances, wedding gifts you never use, old books | | | | electronics is with overstock and returns products. The |
| (non-fiction ones are best), used sporting goods and | | | | trick is to really know what you are buying and to be |
| clothing items. Like that leather jacket that doesn't fit | | | | able to work on small margins and turn your inventory |
| you any more!The experience you gain will be | | | | over often. It takes quite a bit of capital investment to |
| invaluable, there's no cost involved other than eBay | | | | compete in this sector.There is also a huge market on |
| fees which aren't too heavy.The next step is to sell | | | | eBay for "vintage" hi-fi equipment, cameras, old |
| items about which you know something. It might be | | | | computers and computer hardware and so on. I heard |
| related to your hobby or interests.If you are | | | | of a guy who found an Akai reel-to-reel tape deck at |
| knowledgeable about a collectable or an art object, | | | | a car boot sale for £15 ($32). He also got 10 reels |
| then you have the ability to do the research to find the | | | | of tape for nothing. He sold the deck on eBay for just |
| products at prices you can resell.On eBay, anything will | | | | under £100 ($220) and sold the 10 reels of tape |
| sell. It doesn't matter how obscure your item might be, | | | | separately in another auction for £15 ($32).One of |
| eBay buyers will find your auction.Once you gain | | | | eBay's own product managers sells vintage Apple |
| experience try to focus on larger value items. If you | | | | computers, parts and software. She buys almost all of |
| only make £2 ($4) profit per sale, you have to | | | | it at car boot or garage sales, second hand shops and |
| close and ship 1000 items per month to make | | | | auctions.When I am asked about what should they sell, |
| £2,000 ($4,100).Too many sellers think the way to | | | | I am usually also asked what are the best selling items |
| make a fortune on eBay is to buy hundreds of the | | | | on eBay.Here is a list of the currently hot selling items |
| latest hot selling items and put up dozens of auctions. | | | | on eBay. Note that this is not a recommendation of |
| The problem here is that hundreds of other sellers are | | | | what to sell, as each of these product areas requires |
| doing the same thing. (If you don't believe me do a | | | | the seller to have relevant knowledge and expertise.- |
| search for diet pills, or DVDs) There are plenty of | | | | Diet Pills- Nutritional Sex Enhancers- Pheromone |
| companies with enough money to import these items | | | | scents- Glass chess sets- Low cost jewelry- |
| directly by the thousands and undersell anyone who | | | | Expensive watches and jewelry- Heirloom jewelry- |
| buys through a distributor or wholesaler.Another | | | | Used toys in good condition- New and used clothing |
| technique is to sell items in bulk. If you bought a large | | | | for children and plus-sized clothing for women- |
| box of videotapes at a car boot or garage sale, | | | | Software (including closed-out or last year's software |
| separate them into categories and sell them as a lot. | | | | programs and games)- Strobe pens- Tools (power |
| You will often make more money than selling them | | | | and hand tools)- Perfume (including perfume samples |
| individually. This can also work for clothing. There are | | | | and opened expensive perfumes that are at least |
| sellers that buy children's clothing from car boot or | | | | over one-half full)- Perfume bottles (some with or |
| garage sales, sort it by size and gender and sell it in | | | | without perfume)- Religious books and Bibles (Bibles |
| lots.One eBay seller I know purchases large lots of the | | | | are always a perennial seller)- Non-fiction books on |
| fast selling items on eBay (lighters, pocket knives, etc.) | | | | hobbies, sports, nautical subjects, history, military |
| and turns around and sells them in lots of 10 or 25 to | | | | science, popular textbooks, and art & photography. |
| other eBayers who want to buy for resale. I know an | | | | Also books containing maps and art prints that can be |
| eBayer who recently imported 50,000 disposable | | | | broken and sold individually- Maps and old prints of |
| cigarette lighters from Korea that he bought for about | | | | ships, flowers, animals (horses and dogs are good)- |
| 6p (10 cents) each. He sold them on eBay in lots of | | | | Used parts for speciality cars (Porsche, BMW, MG, |
| 500 for 19p (38 cents) each. He made £65 ($140) | | | | etc.)- Car models and car collectables- Signed sports |
| on each lot less his eBay fees.It seems everyone | | | | collectablesIf you want to know what to sell on eBay, |
| wants to sell computers, software, movies, DVD's, | | | | probably the single best piece of advice I can give is to |
| digital cameras and all sorts of consumer electronics. | | | | be unique and to specialize.Find a niche market, learn |
| The sad fact is that SONY, Panasonic, Canon, and | | | | about it, become an expert in it, and work hard at |
| others don't sell their latest hottest products to small | | | | building your reputation in that market. eBay buyers are |
| dealers who work out of their home. (In fact they don't | | | | intelligent, and they like to deal with a knowledgeable |
| sell anything except through their distributors) Even the | | | | and responsive professional seller.If you can become |
| big stores have trouble getting a large allocation of | | | | that seller, you have a good chance of making |
| really hot electronics products.It is possible to get into | | | | significant money on eBay.Brian McGregor is an eBay |
| this business if you have a lot of market and product | | | | and internet entrepreneur. He recently created the |
| knowledge. You might work in a computer store, and | | | | 'eBay Master Class' for eBay sellers. |