I want to start a business on ebay but I don't know what is a good thing to sell on ebay that is inexpensive to buy with a good return. Thanks
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eBay has several ways for you to determine exactly what the hot items to sell on their marketplace: \n\nItems In Demand = the most popular items currently within that particular category. To see the In Demand page, go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/sellbycategory.html  \n\nHot Items by Category Report = a monthly report that lists the fastest growing categories on eBay for the previous month. Go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/whatshot.html and select "Hot Items by Category" from the menu on the left. \n\neBay Pulse = "a daily snapshot of current trends, hot picks, and cool stuff on eBay". Go to http://pulse.ebay.com/ to see eBay Pulse in action. \n\nMerchandising Calendar = eBay promotes specific categories on its home page each month. Savvy eBayers know that this home page exposure results in more interest in such categories. Go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/calendar.html  to view the current Merchandising Calendar.\n\nI suggest she reads the articles on this page Success in Online Auctions http://www.powerhomebiz.com/internet/auction.htm and read the following books:\n\nSell it on eBay: TechTV's Guide to Creating Successful eBay Auctions  \n  Starting an eBay Business for Dummies  \n  Branding: Brand Strategy, Design and Implementation of Corporate and Product Identity  \n  How to Sell Anything on eBay . . . and Make a Fortune!  \n  Ebay Business the Smart Way: Maximize Your Profits on the Web's #1 Auction Site  \n  The Official eBay Bible
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Sell products that people actually want. \n\nSelling on eBay is not as easy as some portray. In fact, go to eBay and check out the number of auctions that end without a single bid. Competition is getting tough, as more sellers go to eBay; even the big boys are joining in the eBay marketplace. Add to that the increasing listing and final value fees.\n\neBay has several ways for you to determine exactly what the hot items to sell on their marketplace: \n\nItems In Demand = the most popular items currently within that particular category. To see the In Demand page, go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/sellbycategory.html  \n\nHot Items by Category Report = a monthly report that lists the fastest growing categories on eBay for the previous month. Go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/whatshot.html and select "Hot Items by Category" from the menu on the left. \n\neBay Pulse = "a daily snapshot of current trends, hot picks, and cool stuff on eBay". Go to http://pulse.ebay.com/ to see eBay Pulse in action. \n\nMerchandising Calendar = eBay promotes specific categories on its home page each month. Savvy eBayers know that this home page exposure results in more interest in such categories. Go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/calendar.html  to view the current Merchandising Calendar.\n\nAs for items to sell, you can:\n\n1. Buy bulk liquidation items such as those at Liquidation.com. The capitalization may be big, but the idea is to sell the items individually and profit from it.\n\n2. Find manufacturers of items you want to sell and buy discounted items from them\n\n3. Make deals with retailers in your area, and offer to buy their unwanted items for deep discounts. jayandmarie - the most successful ebay sellers - made deals with music stores where they will buy the entire inventory in the discounted bins, and then sold the items on ebay for 1-cent starting bid.\n\n4. Look for possible partners on the Web, preferably outside of the US. Import items from them and sell them on ebay. There's huge profits to gain from this approach.\n\nI suggest you read the articles on Success with Auctions http://www.powerhomebiz.com/internet/auctions.htm
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The key success factor is: Sell products that people actually want. \n\nBuying from garage sales and selling on eBay is fun, and good getting a few dollars here and there from ebay. Sometimes, you luck out on an item and hit big, but many times it will just be so-so (assuming you can even get the price you paid for it). In terms of fun factor, it is great. But from a business stand-point, it is not sustainable.\n\nIf you want to earn serious money from eBay, you need to have a well-thought out business model. Selling on eBay is not as easy as some portray. In fact, go to eBay and check out the number of auctions that end without a single bid. Competition is getting tough, as more sellers go to eBay; even the big boys are joining in the eBay marketplace. Add to that the increasing listing and final value fees.\n\nOne success model of ebay is the couple Jay and Marie Senese (username jayandmarie) of the 1-cent CD fame. They have the highest positive feedback number of all sellers on eBay. Their business model is to buy very low cost CDs in bulk (those that CD stores sell in their discount bins) and offer them on ebay at a starting price of 1 cent http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_23/b3886080.htm Their success is based on the fact that they stumbled on a sustainable business model with products that people really want. They sold their business -- where else but on ebay -- for $5 million! Now that is success.\n\neBay has several ways for you to determine exactly what the hot items to sell on their marketplace: \n\nItems In Demand = the most popular items currently within that particular category. To see the In Demand page, go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/sellbycategory.html  \n\nHot Items by Category Report = a monthly report that lists the fastest growing categories on eBay for the previous month. Go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/whatshot.html and select "Hot Items by Category" from the menu on the left. \n\neBay Pulse = "a daily snapshot of current trends, hot picks, and cool stuff on eBay". Go to http://pulse.ebay.com/ to see eBay Pulse in action. \n\nMerchandising Calendar = eBay promotes specific categories on its home page each month. Savvy eBayers know that this home page exposure results in more interest in such categories. Go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/calendar.html  to view the current Merchandising Calendar.\n\nAs for items to sell, you can:\n\n1. Buy bulk liquidation items such as those at Liquidation.com. The capitalization may be big, but the idea is to sell the items individually and profit from it.\n\n2. Find manufacturers of items you want to sell and buy discounted items from them\n\n3. Make deals with retailers in your area, and offer to buy their unwanted items for deep discounts. jayandmarie - the most successful ebay sellers - made deals with music stores where they will buy the entire inventory in the discounted bins, and then sold the items on ebay for 1-cent starting bid.\n\n4. Look for possible partners on the Web, preferably outside of the US. Import items from them and sell them on ebay. There's huge profits to gain from this approach.
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Sell lots of stuff cheap on eBay using 'Buy Now' at prices people can't refuse.\n\n///
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I know a couple people making a decent 2nd income on e-bay one lady does a lot of yardsales and flea markets then resells on ebay another man I know buys wholesale and sell's new stuff on e-bay. they both do well. I do custom computer builds and repair on the side and have sold some of my old parts on ebay as well the trick to e-bay is be honest be fair and be profitable. lol You would also be able to be at home doing that as well..
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Opening a store costs more money through ebay. Why not consider continuing to sell as you do but through another host such as auctiva. You can post more items through ebay at a much cheper cost.
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any product on ebay sells hot. electronic goods and in particular mobile and accessories are the hottest selling items.you can try selling the electronics
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LEARNING how to sell on eBay is pretty easy, especially if you know how to navigate a website and read online help carefully.\n\nMaking SIGNIFICANT money on eBay, that's another story. Easy to learn, yes. But be prepared for some HARD WORK to...\n\n1) Get your rating up. It's harder to get people to bid on items when the seller has a low rating, and some feachers such as Dutch Auctions (selling multiples of one item in a single auction) aren't available until you've got some positive feedback from successful auctions.\n\n2) Get people to even SEE your auction. You have to put some careful thought into the wording of not only your auction item content, but the heading as well. Remember there are a HUGE number of auctions starting every minute. Why should people click on yours? In a nutshell, be prepared to become an expert in marketing and advertising to be effective.\n\n3) Research your starting price. Be prepared to know EXACTLY how much shipping will cost, and factor in the time it takes you to write the item description and calculate shipping, then actually pack and ship everything. After all the costs, if you're not careful you may be working for less than minimum wage.\n\nThat said, yeah, it sounds hard, right? But it's still easier work than, say, flipping burgers in a fast food joint.\n\nAlso, there's a better approach... use eBay as a leapfrog to something ELSE. Done properly it can be a valuable tool for building up contacts with a regular customer base. And THAT is far more valuable than any one auction.
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Its depand that what u want to sell ,\nbut as of now Ebay is the Best.\n\nTry it\nwww.ebay.com
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ebay is good for anything. And it's easy to set up an account with a paypal account.
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DVD is huge and quick to sell but you need volume to make money.\n\nBig time growth on Clothing too, a good categories because it's easy to buy clothing for 80% off and resell them on ebay at 25-50% off but this take a lot of time in the listing because of pictures and description.\n\nRemember the rules number one en ebay: buy low, sell for higher and do volume....\n\n2 good books to buy right now on ebay: Ebay Millionaire, insane books with a lot of good stuff and The Perfect store, the story of ebay. After reading these 2, you will never go out of the ebay way!\n\nGood luck!
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Learn your keywords.  People search by keywords, learn as many keys that will pull up your items on search as you can find.\nFor me, things like L@@K! and other silly things don't work as well as a well worded title that catches a lot of lookers from the search.  And link your auctions together so that people who find one of your auctions can also look at everything else you may have offered.\nGood clear photos of the item from several views are a must.\nI've also found that by listing through channeladvisor rather than ebay, I can post many auctions to start on the same day - Sunday evening works best for me.   I have a much better sell through rate the more items I have up at one time. \nAlso, in the past, this time of year I would plan on having hundreds of items up at the same time, 40 or so ending each day.  That way I have new items popping up in the 'just listed' catagorie as well as in the 'ending soon' catagorie and once a week I pay the $19.95 fee to have one really good item listed as a 'Featured Item".  I find that this bring me hundreds of lookers to my other auctions and results in better sales.  I offer combined shipping with no extra packing fees, as close to actual shipping as possible and I do ship internationaly.  I offer good customer service and have good feedback, which I think helps with sales as well.  I start items at a low but fair price and I use the re-list feature for any that don't sell the first time.\n\nI have sold on ebay for over 8 years, mostly estate clearance and private collections, and one other thing I have found is that you have to research before you list or you will be wasting your time and money.  Some things just are not good sellers, no matter what you say or how much flash you put behind it.  If you are selling an item that you can already find listed many times in the completed items as a no sale, you need set that item aside for a while or offer it at a garage sale.  \nGood luck to you in your Ebay career, I hope you have a profitable holiday season!
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ebay is wonderful. i sell all of my old clothes on it! im 16. my mom helps me of course. but if i can do it you can. its super easy. and you might encounter some minor problems like the idiots on ebay. but do you own thing and you'll be great. you'll love it. ebay is a great website to sell things you were going to throw away but it actually sells! :]
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Your first stop should be eBay's Guide to Seller Services http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/services.html\n\neBay's Seller Central has all the resources you need to learn about the basics of selling on eBay http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/index.html\n\nThe key to a successful eBay selling is simple -- Sell products that people actually want.\n\nSelling on eBay is not as easy as some portray. In fact, go to eBay and check out the number of auctions that end without a single bid. Competition is getting tough, as more sellers go to eBay; even the big boys are joining in the eBay marketplace. Add to that the increasing listing and final value fees.\n\neBay has several ways for you to determine exactly what the hot items to sell on their marketplace: \n\nItems In Demand = the most popular items currently within that particular category. To see the In Demand page, go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/sellbycategory.html  \n\nHot Items by Category Report = a monthly report that lists the fastest growing categories on eBay for the previous month. Go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/whatshot.html and select "Hot Items by Category" from the menu on the left. \n\neBay Pulse = "a daily snapshot of current trends, hot picks, and cool stuff on eBay". Go to http://pulse.ebay.com/ to see eBay Pulse in action. \n\nMerchandising Calendar = eBay promotes specific categories on its home page each month. Savvy eBayers know that this home page exposure results in more interest in such categories. Go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/calendar.html  to view the current Merchandising Calendar.
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It's easy to find out what sells on eBay (besides EVERYTHING).  Think of something you can sell, go on eBay and look it up.  Look at completed listing and you'll see what the going eBay rate is for that item.  If you can get it cheap enough to create a profitable margin and if the market is big enough (ie. how many of said item are actually selling on eBay) then you can probably make a sustainable profit.  That being said, finding the right items to sell on eBay involves a lot of trial & error.  \n\nNow for some specifics - once you've found an item, here are things that can help a lot:  First off, always write an EXCELLENT description.  The more info the better.  People are lazy - if they have to ask you a question, they probably won't do it, they'll just buy the same item from someone else.  Next, lots of pictures!!!  It's true when they say a picture is worth a thousand words.  Third, pay extra for BOLD listings and for a gallery photo - these increase your odds and amount of sale by A LOT!!!  Finally, don't start your auction off too high - set a reserve instead.  A low start price will get people interested in your item and get them to bid.  A high price will scare them off.  It's a lot easier for a person to bid incrementally starting at a low price than it is for them to make a large bid up front - it's all psychological.\n\nGood luck!
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its all about ebay,  go to the .99 cent store and see what you can sell for some ideas.  You can sell some items from the .99 store for 5 bucks.  Just an idea of what to sell, but ebay is a great way to make money
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Open up your Vintage store in ebay!!  Just think the rent is only $15 a month + a small percentage of your sales.  And you get millions upon millions of shoppers every single day, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, worldwide!!  It is super easy, and you will make profits as long as you are selling things that are in 'demand'!!  I have had an e bay store off and on for 5 years.  I love it, and it is as successful as I hoped it would be.