When opening a store on eBay, choosing products is also a very important thing. As a novice, with no experience and no connections, how can you quickly find the right source of goods for yourself? Here are three methods.
1. Find on eBay
How do sellers find suitable goods on the eBay market? In fact, this is not difficult at all, because eBay provides sellers with a search function for popular goods.
Sellers can view the hot sales report on the eBay homepage, or browse the “Hot Sales Weekly Report”, which is eBay’s collection of relevant hot sales products and future sales trends for sellers.
2. Find outside eBay
Sellers can also use the Internet to find popular products on some local websites, or even get inspiration through radio and television. For example, if you learn from the news that a world-renowned designer will use silver ornaments this summer, then maybe you can try selling silver jewelry.
Directly contacting foreign trade manufacturers through exhibitions is also a good way to obtain sources of goods, but this method is suitable for sellers with certain strength. For products that are exported in large quantities by foreign trade manufacturers, you may try to sell them on eBay.
Commodity wholesale distribution centers are also a good choice. Most sellers start from wholesale markets. Here, commodities are concentrated and varied, but for sellers without sales experience, it may be difficult to find suitable commodities.
3. Tips for finding commodities
(1) Choose commodities with a large price-to-weight ratio.
The larger the price-to-weight ratio of commodities sold on eBay, the better. Because in cross-border trade, the actual cost paid by buyers for a commodity includes the price of the commodity itself and the shipping cost. When choosing commodities, you should try to choose commodities with light weight and high commodity value. Take dumbbells among sports goods as an example. Obviously, no seller will sell dumbbells in cross-border trade, because the shipping cost of this commodity may be much higher than its price itself, which is obviously not a cost-effective business. Therefore, the price-to-weight ratio of the commodities sold by sellers should be as large as possible.
(2) Choose commodities with light weight but unique features.
For most foreign sellers, China has always been a very mysterious country. The thousands of years of Chinese craftsmanship are what foreigners yearn for. What we consider to be ordinary gadgets may become rare in foreign countries. Therefore, some lightweight but exquisitely crafted and distinctive items become good choices for sellers, such as Tibetan silver and Hunan embroidery.
(3) Choose products that conform to popular trends.
To seize business opportunities, we must seize popular trends. Any product update and any new fashion will trigger a new product boom, and this is also true on eBay. For example, watches have always been a popular category on eBay. 3D cartoon watches were popular on eBay for a long time. However, when 3D cartoon watches were the most popular and many sellers followed suit, several sellers who initially sold 3D cartoon watches turned around and started selling bracelet watches. The popular 3D cartoon watches were gradually replaced by bracelet watches.