The Manual Way.

If you're just starting out, you might find it easier to

simply go to your category, tick Completed listing's in the

left-hand menu, and then click the Show item's button. Sort

them by highest price first, and there you have it: the

items that sell for the highest prices. In most categories

this will change often, but it's still useful to know if

you think you can get an item quickly for less than the

kind of prices it is selling for, then go for it.

eBay's search interface can be slow and hard to use,

however, and you're unlikely to discover everything you

could learn this way. There's more than one way to do

things, though.

The Statistical Way.

If you'd prefer to do a little hardcore statistical

analysis to determine what's selling and what not, then

don't worry, you can do that too.

eBay make all their market data available to third-party

developers through what's called a Programming Interface,

this basically means that you have a wide choice of

programs that can take market statistics from eBay and

analyse them for you. Type 'ebay analysis' into a search

engine for a long list.

In my opinion, some of the best eBay statistics tools out

there are made by Andale (www.andale.com). Andale are one

of the oldest and most established sellers of services for

eBay. However, their solution is web-based, and you may

prefer to buy a piece of software that you can install on

your computer, such as AuctionIntelligence.

These automated programs will almost do everything for you,

and come with help and tutorials. You should be aware,

however, that eBay charge them for the data, which means

that they will never give you their programs for

free.

Keep Your Finger on Pulse.

If you want a quick, big-picture snapshot of what people

are looking to buy on eBay, then go to

http://pulse.ebay.com. This is a page where eBay list the

top 10 most searched for words, and the top 5 largest eBay

stores.

Looking at it, it's easy to spot current trends. For

example, right now all of the top stores are selling media

items, either books or music. That suggests that these are

good things to be selling, at least if you want to shift

volume. Right now the word 'ipod' is at number 4, and 'ipod

mini' is at number 6, there are a heck of a lot of people

out there looking for a cheap iPod or iPod mini. If you

could find a good supplier for them then you could make a

lot of money.

If you're having trouble finding suppliers, though, don't

worry: there's more than one way to get hold of things to

sell on eBay.

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