all right do you have a whole bunch of stuff laying around your house that
you'd love to turn in cash by selling it on eBay but you're not sure what's gonna sell?
well in this video we're gonna give you some guidelines and how you can know
exactly what's gonna sell on eBay so hang with us and we'll get started right now
in 2011 there was a study done by this group NPD and they concluded
that the average American household has $7,000 of items that
can be sold online so you're probably like me where you think there's
no way there's $7,000 worth of stuff laying around my house I thought
the same thing but I have gone through this I've been using eBay for years and
over and over and over again I continued to find more things that I can sell and
I'm gonna try to help you find some things in your house that would be good
items to sell I'm going to show you how you can do that alright so the first thing is
we have to figure out how to know what to sell like what's actually
gonna sell on eBay because truth is that there are tons of things listed on eBay
that will not sell you know and if you're like me most of what's laying
around your house probably would not sell so the key to not wasting your time
is to find those things that will sell and then you don't sell those I'm going to start
by giving you some rough guidelines and there are millions of
other things that you can sell and that people have successfully sold but I'm
just gonna share what has worked for me one of the first things that I like to
look for is anything that has a brand name or that people are generally
passionate about so it doesn't necessarily need to be an expensive brand
but some sort of brand that people would be searching for so for example
the opposite of this would be if you have a red button up shirt or something
like that and you go and list this red button up shirt on eBay it's just there
are millions of them out there and as a result the chances of it selling would
be very very slim however if it's a Banana Republic
red button-down shirt something like that is gonna be a much better chance because
people are searching for Banana Republic shirts Apple products are a
great example because they're a brand that a lot of people search for and
they're a brand that people are really passionate about and so Apple products
it's really difficult not to sell an Apple product honestly you can pretty
much put up any Apple product on eBay it's going to sell
so like American Girl dolls I don't know that much about them but I think there's a
pretty solid passionate group behind that silver or gold jewelry there are
tons of people who are really interested in precious metals and storing them up
so that that's something that could sell but I think you get the idea
brand names and things that people might be passionate about are generally things
that work well following in that vein things that are highly rated and
reviewed on the Amazon often do well on eBay and I think there's a couple
reasons for this so I think one is if they're highly rated and reviewed on
Amazon that means they're probably a pretty popular product a lot of people
have bought and therefore more of them would be selling but additionally a lot
of people will go to Amazon find the best product and then go over to eBay to
see if they can buy it used so if you buy a lot of items on Amazon that are
well rated and well reviewed those items probably will do pretty well if you're
trying to sell them on eBay and I'm one of those people who I buy a lot of stuff
on Amazon and I typically read the reviews and I find the best rated stuff
and as a result this has worked pretty well for me so if I buy something and
use it for six months and I'm not using it anymore I'll just turn around and
sell it on eBay and most times that works out for me and one more category
of things to think about our items that have a really unique description and
that would be in demand so an example of this would be like a Darth Vader cat Halloween costume
that you're trying to sell in October you know so something
like this could be hit or miss but it's really the only way that I've ever sold
anything that didn't have a name-brand so at the sake of embarrassing myself
many years ago many many years ago I sold a pair of fake leather pants on
eBay and actually profited quite well on them I ended I bought them from Old Navy
I think I don't know how they had them there but and I don't even know why I bought
them but anyway I ended up selling them and I don't even know if I
listed that they were Old Navy when I sold them on eBay
because Old Navy is not exactly a in-demand brand because they're priced
low enough but leather pants for men's leather pants was a unique item
people were searching for and as a result I was able to sell them and even
make money on them which was kind of fun so those are a few rough guidelines of
things you could use but the best way honestly to tell if something is
actually gonna sell is to check the past listings
so in the next video I'm going to show you a trick using past listings to be able to better determine if
something's gonna sell and for how much it will probably sell for
so if that's something you're interested in just click that video right there or
the link down below and I will see you in the next video