Nothing beats getting tips directly from an eBay Powerseller. Here is a video of Tim, who is currently an eBay Powerseller on how to find a market before you dropship or sell products on eBay.

This simple little market research tip is available for anyone to do and its free. Thanks Tim for sharing your common sense.

Market research is the key to success on the internet - so make sure you spend some time on it first.

Now . . .

If you are still confused, what our friend Tim was really trying to say is:

1. Go to eBay.com and click on advanced search

2. Enter the name of the product you are interested in selling and click on ‘Completed Listings Only’ button. ‘Completed Listings’ means auctions that have expired or ended. I just chose a random product such as ‘ribbons’ and typed it in to show you how it works.

3. And as you can see at the bottom, the GREEN means the item sold and the red color means the listing was unsuccessful.

So the idea is the more greens you see on a product you search for, the more the product is being sold.

Meaning there is actually a ‘market’ for it.

Then simply use WDclub and find a dropshipper for that product!

Just give the market what it wants - its that easy

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If you are dropshipping or selling on eBay, you know the importance of eBay Feedbacks.

What is the eBay Feedback?
Every eBay member has a Feedback Profile, which includes basic information about the member and the Feedback that their trading partners have left for them. Learning to trust a member has a lot to do with what their past buyers or sellers have to say.

For each transaction, buyers and sellers can rate each other by leaving Feedback. Each Feedback consists of a positive, negative, or neutral rating, and a short comment.

A buyer can also rate the seller on additional criteria, including accuracy of item description, communication, shipping time, and shipping and handling charges. These detailed seller ratings do not count toward the Feedback Score.

Leaving honest comments about a particular eBay member gives other Community members a good idea of what to expect when dealing with that member. Once it’s left, Feedback becomes a permanent part of the member’s Feedback Profile.

Feedback scores and stars Feedback ratings are used to determine each member’s Feedback Score.

A positive rating adds one point to the Feedback Score. A neutral rating has no impact on the Feedback Score. A negative rating subtracts one point from the Feedback Score.

Why you need to have the best feedback possible?
Having a positive feedback rating shows that you are not only a good legit seller, but the more feedbacks you have, the more you can grow on eBay and utilize MORE eBay functions.

For example, to sell something as a ‘buy it now’ on eBay, you need at least 10 positive feedbacks.

Basically, after 30-40 positive feedbacks. You become a fully legit seller on eBay.

So how do you get 100 feedbacks for a buck?

1. Go to eBay stores
2. Do a search for ebooks
3. Click on the price, set it to the lowest.
4. Now you will see thousands of eBooks being offered at $0.01!
5. Buy 100 of those right there and you just got 100 positive feedbacks.

NOTE: Make sure you buy from a different seller each time or you wont get the ratings.

Another simple trick professionals use:)

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If you are trying to sell without doing any research on the internet first, you are committing suicide.

You will fall hard and if you are selling on eBay, then you will fall harder because even if your item doesn’t sell, you already paid for the listing fee.

I came across Mpire Researcher some time ago and I’m very impressed with it. Mpire is a free tool provided by Terapeak (Paid Version) for researching on eBay.

The data this free tool provides is absolutely incredible. Keywords, best time to sell, best day, best category.

Did I mention this was free!

Here is just a tiny sample of the data they provide:

If you look at the arrows above (Yeah I know you are thinking that I should go to Art School lol) but the data is pretty freaking amazing.

It shows you the best listing type, best day to end and best time to end. Plus a whole lot more - for FREE.

If you want to get started with Mpire Free Researcher Tool, Click HERE.

So before you try to dropship an item on eBay, do your research here to make sure you get PAID for your item.

Hope it helps.

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