Niche Group Sale

Hold a sale for a niche groups of people. Students, senior citizens, single people etc. This really works if your introducing a new product or service for first time to a new target audience. Announce your sale in a targeted e-zine, e-mail discussion groups, message boards, etc.

Holiday Or Seasonal Sale

Offer lower prices on holidays and during seasonal changes. These type of sales let your visitors and customers know your no scrooge. Be creative and go as far as decorating your web site. You could upload holiday and seasonal graphics. Change color of your text to match. Get in spirit!

Get More For Your Money Sale

Give customers more products or services for their money. People relate these kind of sales to getting a bargain or saving money. You could offer a buy one get one for half off sale, a buy two get third one free, two for price of one sale, etc.

Quote of Day:

"If you accommodate others, you will be accommodating yourself." -- Chinese proverb.

http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/hotitems.pdf

"eBay Pulse"

"eBay Pulse" is another area where you can figure out what people are looking for on "The World's Online Marketplace®." It contains a category's daily snapshot of ten most popular searches and stores with most active listings. A subsection on "eBay Pulse," known as "Most Watched Items," reveals ten auctions that are getting most attention. Visit this page and select a category to study from drop-down menu.

http://pulse.ebay.com

"Merchandising Calendar"

The last area with information on what to sell on eBay is "Merchandising Calendar." Here, eBay shows you categories they will promote on their homepage each month. This is where eBay "tells" you what to sell. You can ignore their calendar and sell anything you choose, but wouldn't it be easier to make sales if you took advantage of eBay's promotional influence? Look at this page and use calendar as a guide in planning your inventory and listings.

http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/calendar.html

Last Thoughts

Now that you have links to data that tells you what people will buy on eBay, you can look forward to listing these items and making sales. The next step is finding wholesale or drop-ship sources that carry those items that are "In Demand." That is when you will be one-step closer to achieving your goal of making a living from eBay.