Best Niche Products To Sell On Ebay

This year is a first… since eBay has been around, the economy has never been where it is now - and I can’t help but think about how it might effect the biggest selling season of the year… holiday toy sales.

I’m confident that even if parents can’t afford to, they will find a way to buy toys for their children. And, if they can’t afford to get the newest toys for this year… they will buy used.

The point is – They are still going to buy toys!

Did you know that used toys sell well on eBay all year long? - And they do quite well during the holiday season too.

I can't help to wonder if they will do even better than usual this year because of the economy. We’ll have to wait and see to find out - but, it doesn’t hurt to be prepared.

One of the best strategies toy sellers can implement this holiday season is to offer both used and new toys to their customers.

Even though new toys traditionally skyrocket during the holidays… and that means sellers can buy them at full retail prices only to see them double or triple on eBay… there can be a much higher profit margin when selling used toys. You can pick up gently used toys at yard sales, consignment shops, estate sales and thrift
stores for pennies on the dollar and turn them around for 100-200% profit on eBay!

But, it all comes down to knowing what sells…

The Holiday Toy Selling Guide is created to help you make the most from your toy selling efforts on Ebay… to help you know what of th emost popular toys is selling (and what isn’t!).

It is designed to be a tool that does the research for you - allowing you to spend your time buying and listing your inventory... and, with the Holiday Toy Guide GOLD membership you get 2 months access to a weekly list of USED toys that are currently selling on eBay. Yep - both NEW and USED toys... the best of both worlds for toy sellers this holiday.

2008 - 2009 Ebay Toy Selling Guide

9 Tips On How To Find Them

Just because you may not see a toy on the shelf in a store, doesn’t mean it is out of stock. Use these nine tips to find even the toys that are the most difficult to get your hands on.

1. Communicate with your local stores to learn stocking patterns

2. Talk with store stockers just to learn how they run their store

3. Store employees are more likely to talk with collectors than dealers - I don’t recommend lying… but, I would be careful of the wording. They will figure out that you are a dealer/reseller when you visit buying the same things over and over.

4. Talk with customer service folks - Don’t assume all employees have the same level of information. Sometimes they have information the stockers don’t have. Where a stocker may not know when they are getting a shipment of a specific toy, the customer service folks may be able to tell you.

5. Avoid the big stores - check out drug stores, grocery stores - even smaller online toy stores

6. Visit grocery stores/drug stores in less affluent areas

7. Visit Out of the way cities

8. Look behind other toys on the shelves

9. Look under shelves in hidden storage areas - and places employees would hide toys.

The 2008 - 2009 Ebay Toy Selling Guide provides you with a list of the most popular toys - many of these toys are going to get harder and harder to find as we get closer to the holiday season. Be sure to use these tips to find these great selling toys.

Mistakes Not To Make

Since you know what the hot sellers are long before they sell out – thanks to the 2008 - 2009 Ebay Toy Selling  Guide you sometimes get a chance to grab quite a few of the same hot item at once. One of the biggest mistakes you could make is to list more than one of them at a time. Let’s look at an example.

If you scored on a bunch of a particular hot item, don’t list them all at the same time (unless you are running a "Buy It Now" auction). You will spread your bidders out between your listings and your ending price won’t be as high. Less availability means higher profits. Instead, list them one at a time, and relist as soon as an auction closes. I love getting my hands on several identical items. Since I only have to take the picture once and create the listing once, it saves me lots of time when I can hit that “relist” button. That of course means that I can go out there and shop some more.