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Finding Hot Products: eBay Sourcing Strategies - Part 1

By Expert Author: Jesse Holmes | Article Abstract
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If you have gone through your house and have been listing off your odds and ends, by now you should be mostly sold out of them. Now it is time to start searching for items to go out and buy to get listed. You should now be a master at completed item research, and as you go out and hunt for deals it will prove to be invaluable.

Now is the time to go to the mall, outlet malls and storefronts on an inventory hunt. The ideal situation at this point is to find inventory from a store that is having a clearance sale. Stores that are already discount orientated such as outlet malls, TJ Maxx, Ross, Marshalls and Nordstrom Rack are the perfect stores to visit when sales are taking place. Take a pen and paper and as you spot deals, write them down. Take quick snapshots if you have a camera phone. At this point, you are just seeing what’s out there. Already having a good idea of eBay Pulse will give you a good idea what to start looking for in the store.

When you go home, make a list of deals that you found while browsing around. With your list, you are now ready to find out which deals are keepers and which ones are not. Go through each item on your list and perform some completed item research on eBay. This will tell you if the items are selling or not and what they sell for on eBay. Once you have determined which items are profitable to buy (after listing fees), then go back to the stores and pick up the items you want to start selling.

If there are multiples of the items that are profitable, buy multiples. Having an item you can relist and sell more than once saves time and makes you more money.

Thinking this is all just a waste of time and there is no profit to be found? We used this exact same strategy and bought a pair of jeans for $9 at a Marshalls and sold them for $100 on eBay.

After a few trips to the store, you can really get to know exactly what you can sell on eBay for a profit. You can also start developing some relationships with the store managers and offer to take old clearance inventory off their hands. Most of the time, they are more than glad to clear out old stock that still might sell like hotcakes on eBay.
Jesse Holmes

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Now that you’ve found a few products there are a few other things you need in order to run a successful eBay business. To get the EXACT system hundreds of sellers are using to generate thousands... even TENS OF THOUSANDS of dollars EVERY SINGLE MONTH with their eBay businesses, SIGN UP HERE

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