Sell Themed Collectibles on eBay

Some themes attract buyers across a wide range of collectibles, including postcards and ephemera, ornaments and newspapers, badges and models, and a great many other things besides.

The fact that some themes cover so many individual collectible types provides an excellent opportunity for eBay sellers to specialise in one or two big interest subjects and to sell literally hundreds of themed products every month to a vast audience on eBay.

There are many thousands of collectable themes to consider, including pigs and frogs, mushrooms and aeroplanes, and two of my particular best sellers, windmills and lighthouses.

The reason I personally like buying and selling products featuring windmills and lighthouses is not only because they are immensely popular subjects, but because they currently have few specialist sellers on eBay, so competition is relatively low and profit margins immensely attractive.

You can find tight niches like windmills and lighthouses, currently with little competition on eBay, by searching the bookshelves in major town or city newsagents. Look for magazines targeting collectors, you’ll find quite a few, you might purchase one or two because they’re all packed with information to grow your eBay business which a quick scan won’t reveal.

What you’re looking for are articles and advertisements about specific collectibles. You’re also looking for pages featuring back issues of the magazine, where usually you’ll see front pages and contents lists, both of which give insights into regular articles for specific collectible themes. Regular articles about golliwogs, for example, or teddy bears, tea pots or kewpie dolls, signifies a potentially profitable specialist theme for your eBay business. Several advertisements from people selling or wanting to purchase specific collectibles is another sign of a profitable theme business on eBay.

Once you have those ideas, search for specialist sellers on eBay, if you find few or no specialist sellers, there’s a good theme for further research.

If time permits, you could sell a range of individual themes on eBay using different eBay selling accounts. However, perhaps the biggest incentive for sellers is that few rivals exist, on and off the Internet, for many of these big interest themes. That means little if any competition among buyers at boot sales, auctions and flea markets, even on eBay itself where same theme items can often be bought in bulk and resold on eBay.

I hope you can already see the immense potential of selling hundreds of same theme items from a selection of eBay accounts and catering for big spend buyers and others on a limited budget but usually keen to purchase collectibles in bulk.