Adam Ginsberg: Finding Hot Products to Sell on eBay
I am an Adam Ginsberg student. From the amazing information I’ve learned from Adam Ginsberg I make money on eBay. It all started in 2005 when I read Adam Ginsberg’s best selling eBay book – the best book on how to make money on eBay that I’ve ever read.When I first started buying and selling on eBay back in 2005 I sold mostly stuff from around the house or purchased from garage sales in the area. But, since then my eBay business has evolved somewhat to finding hot items and then finding a wholesaler or a dropshipper to provide those items. From there it morphed into using Adam Ginsberg’s Template Optimizer Software – with more hot selling drop ship products built into this automated professional software eBay listing tool. This is the method that I use to find what is hot right now on eBay. Here’s the basic approach:
Search the CategoriesGo to eBay’s home page at eBay.com and on the left side where it says “Shop Your Favorite Categories” scroll to the bottom and click on “view all categories”.Scroll all the way to the bottom of that page and click on “See Item Counts” on the right. It will automatically change to show you all the categories and sub categories with the amount of current listings in them. This will give you information on how popular it is with the sellers. Hold on and I’ll explain later about how to find out how popular it is with the buyers.eBay PulseNext you will want to go to pulse.eBay.com/ to check the search “Pulse” of popular products.
Once you get there it will tell you the 10 most popular items on all of eBay, but you can narrow the products down by category by looking right above the header where it says “Popular Searches” and it says “Categories”. Click on the drop down menu and choose a category that interests you. Once you go to the next page it lists the 10 most popular searched for products for that category. Click on any of those results and it will take you to a list of currently selling products. To see what has sold in that category just do a “completed listings” search on the Advanced Search page (see below).
Checking What the Buyers Want
To find out what is actually Selling on eBay go to the eBay home page at eBay.com. At the top on the right side of search box is the link to “advanced search”. Click on it to go to the next page.
Enter your keyword (your product you are researching) in the box and check off the “completed listing “box under the “Search Included” category. Next make the default search for “exact words”in the box next to the one you enter the keyword into. There are ways to further narrow down your results, but I suggest you not do that for the first search. Later you can narrow it down if the results are too general to find what you are looking for. You never can tell what other niches you may discover if you leave it as a general search first. The results will show you whether it sold or not – price in green means sold, price in red means it didn’t sell. It will also tell you how many bids it received and when it sold. Generally speaking you want to see at least a 50% sell rate. From this result page you can also click on any of the listing and see the exact listing they used to sell with.
This is all great information for you to sift through and determine if this is a niche or product you want to pursue. At least it can tell you what is hot on eBay right now.