As a result of the world wide recession many people have turned to eBay to try and make money from home. Some have found success and some have found that it can be very frustrating to list items over and over on eBay without making sales. Most of us have been there and many of us have, at some point, found the eBay fees catch up and sometimes overtake our profit, which only adds to the squeeze being put on our finances.

Many people have then become disheartened and have left eBay without trying to research their market. There are various ways of researching your market on eBay to help you find items that are selling successfully. But what if I told that there is an area of eBay where people are actually queuing up for items, and telling us what those desired items are?

Want it now: Is an area of eBay where people who cannot find what they are looking for, or cannot be bothered to look, list details of the items that they want to buy. There are literally thousands of listings there but what you are looking for in this area is either high value items or repeated listings. Repeated listings mean that many people are looking for the same items. If you can source those items you will obviously make lots of sales, and if you can find them at the right price your profit will increase dramatically.

Finding repeated listings can be time consuming. There is software out there to make it easier for you, but that costs money. Unfortunately you will have to spend either your time or your money on this, but it is worth it. Use some of your time first to check it out, and decide from there.

Ok Barry, how do we find the want it now section on eBay?

Log into your eBay account and click on the help link in the top right corner. On the following page just enter Want It Now and click search. You will then see a selection of topics relating to Want It Now, click on the top one and it will take you to an information page where you will find a link to the listings.

Wow Barry there are literally thousands of listings there. How do I sort through that lot to find the repeated listings you spoke of?

This is where the time factor kicks in. All of the listings are placed according to the time and date that they were listed and it could be that there are weeks between repeated listings. So we need to filter that information and we do this using Notepad and a spread sheet, as follows:

  1. First of all copy and paste the complete page of listings into a notepad doc. This will copy listing title, responses and the date of the listing.
  2. Next, open a spread sheet using Excel or a similar program.
  3. Now switch from notepad to spread sheet, cutting and pasting each listing title from the notepad to the spread sheet. Placing all of the titles beneath one another in the spread sheet cells.
  4. When you have completed that, with only the responses and listing dates remaining, you can close the notepad doc, without saving it.
  5. Return to your spread sheet and save your work. Now click the top of the column to highlight all of the cells with the titles in.
  6. Now click the Data tab from across the top and select Sort by A-Z.

The titles will then be rearranged into alphabetical order, allowing you to spot repeated listings with relative ease. As I said this can be time consuming, but the results will speak for themselves.

If you find that to time consuming then check out the AuctionYen Video that will show you some software that will do all the work for you.

Until next time, Best of luck
Barry

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