How to find best selling items on eBay
The first step towards launching a successful business is to study the market. Analyzing the market is all about understanding the “demand” for the prospective item you are planning to sell and there by determining the item that has the maximum demand and comparatively lower supply.
For business models earning a high income from sales commissions like Amazon affiliates the key research item would be to understand the market pulse and identify what is in demand at the moment.
Another good approach is to study the trends of ecommerce to understand seasonal spike in demand and switching your business activities to that particular niche when the demand is high. Below are some methods that you could adopt to study the demand for products on eBay.
The eBay website provides 2 great tools to identify the market pulse and search query spikes. You could take advantage of valuable information that you receive from the two eBay analytic tools sharing the activity information:
- eBay Pulse
- eBay Keyword Index
- eBay Product Index
eBay Pulse shares critical information that shows the trend of eBay users purchasing and watching products on their website. The tool reveals invaluable information like:
- Rising search.
- Most popular items.
- Most sold items on eBay.
- Largest Store and their information.
- Category based split of hot selling items.
eBay Keyword Index reveals some more stunning data points like highest searched keywords, top category keywords, top product keywords and detailed drill down of these information.
eBay Product Index is another eBay tool that you could use to identify the most popular products in different category niches within eBay marketplace. Another link that features all time popular ebay products could be found here
Take Home: Be it eBay or Amazon, study the market demands and competition. Once you have your market research and analysis information, you would be able to decide what to sell and where. Hope this article has helped you to learn more about how to find the best selling items on eBay
Nice Share!
Good to know about eBay pulse. This gives more chances to succeed on eBay commerce business.
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Stacey
Thanks Stacey, Am glad you liked it!
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Josh
Dear Josh,
Cool article and great information – I was not very sure how to get to this data set you have shared but was sure there was some way out.
Like Amazon has a popular products or best seller dot amazon page that really helps you identify top products to promote to improve your affiliate business.
Now i think we can follow the same approach for eBAy too…
Thanks again..
Seleema
OC,
Was sure a useful post.
Thanks for sharing and keep it coming..
Regards
Joel
Amazon Affiliates have been very famous as a successful business model. The best part is you could research on the best selling items – > Do a keyword research – > Start a niche website and Earn from affiliate sales.. That sounds practical right?
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Josh
I always search ebay for all the products similars to what I'm searching.
Also, I do my offer in the last moment so I can easily get the product with a better price.
Hello,
Thanks for your post. I have a question. When I clicked on the list of popular items on ebay, it led me to the product page and I noticed that there were only 2 sold for that product. So I wonder if a popular product is a best selling product or it's just the most watched product. And does the list contain the most popular items on the daily basis? Hope you could help. Thanks
Dear Binh,
I did not quite understand your question, when you click on a product in the popular items page, it will not show the number of products sold out. If it does, kindly explain me with one example or with a link, I could try to answer you.
cheers
Josh
Hello,
I meant that when I click on popular.ebay.com, there's a "Popular items" list on the left side and I just wonder if these products are the most searched products or are they the best selling products on ebay? And is there any way to find out the best selling products on ebay because pulse.ebay.com just shows the most searches, not the best selling products
Hope you can help
BR,
Dear Binh,
There are 2 ways to approach this one. The popular links shows the buzz on the eBay marketplace and certainly that is linked directly to sale. More popularity means obviously more sales. In addition, if you check the "Keyword Index" The top products listed are the most sold products.
regards
Josh
Thank you very much for your reply.
Have a nice day!
Thanks a lot for sharing us about this topic.
Good tips.
When doing research on items you want to sell, I would also use Completed Listings search in Advanced search.
This will give you an idea on how much the items you want to sell are going for. I use it to do my research when buying and selling.
Robert