Hot Selling eBay Items
There's only two ways to make money on ebay - sell the hottest selling eBay items or refer buyers through ebay's affiliate program to buy the hottest selling items. Either way, you've got to know what's hot. Finding hot items to sell on ebay can require some time consuming research so I put this lens together to make it easier for you to find the hottest selling ebay items.
Hot Item Finder
Hot Item Finder is an awesome software program that takes all the time out of searching for that "perfect product" to sell on eBay!Here are a few powerful features this new software offers:
=> Extract hot items from ebay.com, ebay.co.uk, ebay.ca, or ebay.com.au
=> Find the hit counts of all your hot items
=> Generate all the top popular search terms for hundreds of eBay categories!
=> Extract all the most watched items for hundreds of eBay categories!
=> Extract the top popular products for several categories
=> Download and search the eBay keyword database
=> And much more ...
Hot Item Finder
I highly recommend this eBay research tool. I personally use it daily to crank out my ebay affiliate sites linked to the current hottest selling items.
Want to see the hottest selling digital cameras? Here's are a few of the results that Hot Item finder returned:
TeraPeak
Terapeak is the premier eBay research service which gives unprecedented access to over 500,000,000 closed listings to research. They provide an online subscription based service priced at $24.95/mo or $119/yr.With Terapeak, you base your online sales on eBay research, not guesswork. Terapeak 5.0 provides eBay sellers and buyers with two years worth of trending data to help precisely target the best products to sell, and 90 days of item specific data to guide when to list, best day and time to list, the best keywords and categories to use, and the best price to sell at. Use category hot lists to view what's hot in the eBay marketplace. Learn who the top sellers are and the strategies they use. Discover what products are making them big money.
There is a free demo located at http://www.terapeak.com/ebay_research. Take a look at the results for the Nikon D3 digital camera:
eBay Research Tools
eBay produces pages and tools for its sellers to find the hot items or hot categories.
http://pages.ebay.com/sell/whatshot/index.html
Unfortunately, if you visit this page, it is a bit dated as it is entitled "What's Hot for Spring". I was under the impression that it was updated every month.
eBay also used to produce a report called Hot Items by Category . This report shows you which categories and subcategories are on fire; the ones that produce the highest bid-to-item ratios which means that demand is outpacing the supply. The problem with this report is that the last one is dated December 2007, so apparently eBay is not producing this report anymore.
But if you want to see the last one, the eBay Hot Items by Category report is located at:
http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/hotitems.pdf
eBay Pulse is another research page that eBay provides. It gives a daily snapshot of current trends, hot picks, and cool stuff on eBay. This page shows you several lists including popular searches, some of the best eBay stores, popular products, highest priced items, most watched items and more.
http://pulse.ebay.com
Finallly, there is eBay Marketplace Research. This is a paid service offered by eBay.
"Marketplace Research enables buyers and sellers to gather critical intelligence on buying and selling trends in the eBay marketplace. View and analyze top searches, average start prices, average sold prices and much more. This easy-to-use product makes getting to the data you need quick and efficient."
Current pricing is:
Fast Pass ($2.99 for 2 days access), Research Basic ($9.99 per month) and Research Pro ($24.99 per month).
http://pages.ebay.com/marketplace_research/index.html
[Edit]As of August 18, 2008, eBay is discontinuing its Marketplace Research service and is referring all of its customers to Terapeak.[/Edit]
http://pages.ebay.com/sell/whatshot/index.html
Unfortunately, if you visit this page, it is a bit dated as it is entitled "What's Hot for Spring". I was under the impression that it was updated every month.
eBay also used to produce a report called Hot Items by Category . This report shows you which categories and subcategories are on fire; the ones that produce the highest bid-to-item ratios which means that demand is outpacing the supply. The problem with this report is that the last one is dated December 2007, so apparently eBay is not producing this report anymore.
But if you want to see the last one, the eBay Hot Items by Category report is located at:
http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/hotitems.pdf
eBay Pulse is another research page that eBay provides. It gives a daily snapshot of current trends, hot picks, and cool stuff on eBay. This page shows you several lists including popular searches, some of the best eBay stores, popular products, highest priced items, most watched items and more.
http://pulse.ebay.com
Finallly, there is eBay Marketplace Research. This is a paid service offered by eBay.
"Marketplace Research enables buyers and sellers to gather critical intelligence on buying and selling trends in the eBay marketplace. View and analyze top searches, average start prices, average sold prices and much more. This easy-to-use product makes getting to the data you need quick and efficient."
Current pricing is:
Fast Pass ($2.99 for 2 days access), Research Basic ($9.99 per month) and Research Pro ($24.99 per month).
http://pages.ebay.com/marketplace_research/index.html
[Edit]As of August 18, 2008, eBay is discontinuing its Marketplace Research service and is referring all of its customers to Terapeak.[/Edit]
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