Here are a few steps that you can take to find saleable and ‘wanted’ items on eBay:

Start with a well-known list. Some of the hot sellers on eBay are:

•    Baby Clothing
•    Books
•    Car Accessories
•    Cosmetics
•    Coupons
•    Jewelry
•    Kitchen Supplies
•    Health and Beauty Products
•    Bags and Purses
•    Gift Baskets
•    Costumes
•    Toys
•    Skin Care Products
•    Sunglasses
•    Sewing Patterns

Use “eBay Pulse”:  You can make the use of a tool called eBay Pulse to know more about things to sell on eBay.  This tool helps the sellers to find the keywords that have been searched by buyers the maximum times.  You can sort the list to the top five or ten searches to discover the items that sell well on eBay.  Now, filter out the things that you want to sell on eBay and make sure that you focus on the ones that are sold and brought more.

Use “eBay arbitrage”:  You may find the hot sellers on eBay using a method called “eBay arbitrage”.  eBay arbitrage is a technique of finding the poorly listed auctions due to any wrong reason such as incorrect description, incomplete information, wrong categorization and many other reasons.  You can get in touch with wholesale suppliers and drop shippers to end your search for the things that sell on eBay.  With the help of this technique, you can find the items easily and get them shipped directly to the buyers, thus making money.

Items of your interest:  the easy way is to start you research work with items of your interest and profession. Thereafter, you have to make a short-list, select and refine the items that sell well on eBay using the above methods. What types of products are of interest to you, the potential seller? For example, some individuals might collect certain items or have an interesting hobby. These areas could be a starting point to help you to determine what you might want to sell.

Once you have a few ideas of what items to sell, test the eBay market. Set up an eBay and PayPal account. Don’t invest a lot of money for products. Sell items that you might already own or purchase one to three items of a product in different styles, colors and attributes. Then set up your auction. By testing and purchasing a small amount of product, you are lowering your financial risk of having a lot of inventory in case your item doesn’t sell. Doing a test auction will allow you to see how long it might take to sell this particular product as well as seeing how many visitors look and bid on your auction.

Questions to ask yourself are:  If the product is being sold, is the market oversaturated? If there seems to only be a few people selling your product, what can you do to make your product stand out from the others?  Can you package it with another item or simply sell a wider selection of color, styles, scents or hard-to-find items? And most importantly, what are the items being sold for? Is it enough for you to make a profit?