Forget the Experts, Do Your Own eBay Research, And Not Only Cut Costs but Increase Your Profits Also
 

Certain important facts and figures can be accessed via your eBay personal account whenever there’s new stock to list. This includes imminent cheap listing days, noting eBay site maintenance times, studying buyer and seller feedback, and so on. You can also research your own eBay listings, past and current, looking for better performing eBay categories, most profitable auction ending times, and so on.

Regular DIY research also helps create a more professional image and increase your selling chances for products you’ve never seen before and don’t know their worth. Just the name of the product from your local auction house catalogue is all you need to check current and completed auctions for items you may have never before seen or touched. Research on eBay helps you choose a listing category, starting price, auction duration, and to create a description of the product based on previous best price sales. Find past auctions by clicking on ‘Advanced Search’ near the top of any eBay page, next page key words to describe the item into the search box, tick ‘Completed Auctions Only’, next page right of screen on the scroll menu choose ‘Price: Highest First’. Study the best selling items, prices coloured green to indicate items actually sold as opposed to red showing items that didn’t sell.

ADVANCED RESEARCH TECHNIQUES

It’s good to know what’s happening in the day-to-day running of your business and that might be all it takes to run a hugely profitable eBay venture. But if you want to run a full-time business or expand your current venture you really should look at overall eBay marketing facts and figures and adapt any you think might benefit your business. For example, knowing that a particular time each week finds many more people actively bidding on eBay in the USA, or elsewhere, is valuable information that helps you determine when to end your auctions for maximum profit. But that peak time may change, sometimes quickly, so knowing what is good practice today may be less appropriate a few weeks from now. Locating all this information by yourself about how best to run your eBay business demands ongoing research, it takes time, lots of time, and it doesn’t suit everyone.

That’s why many successful eBayers consider DIY research too expensive in terms of time and effort and view the membership fee paid to research companies, even eBay’s own Marketplace Research system a small price to pay to access vital information literally in seconds.

The choice is yours but DIY or pay for it, you’re almost guaranteed to grow your profits greatly on eBay.