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What FREE tool can you use to find out what is selling on eBay?

I'm new to eBay and would like to find a FREE market research tool to find out different niche markets and see what's selling. Thanks for your input.

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1. While there are only 10 items, you can refine your search by category: http://pulse.ebay.com/
2. There are several ways to identify niche products on eBay. 1. Check completed listings. A niche product is a product that has consumer demand, but not many sellers offering it (competition). You can go through eBay completed listings to find ideas. 2. Some great niche products are accessories or complimentary products that correspond with expensive popular products that are selling like crazy. For example, go Amazon, and the eBay main page and look at the products they promote on their front page. For example, let's say you go to Amazon.com and see they are promoting a Garmin GPS tracking system. That tells you that GPS systems are hot. So you piggyback off of this product and look for accessories to sell - mounting systems, cases, chargers, cables, map updates. There will be a market for these products, too. 3. You can use the free version of Terapeak (see the link below) for limited research. The paid version (starting at $25 a month) gives you access to the niche product finder. See the second link below. 4. Look on the eBay Pulse to find product ideas. Here are the steps: a.Go to pulse.ebay.com b.Don’t research anything on the first page (those niches will be too saturated) c.Choose other categories from drop down menu d.Click on keywords to see listings using those words e.Click on actual listings to see if the product is selling (or check seller’s feedback) f.Enter product name into Google g.Click SHOPPING on the left h.Click on the product i.Sort the suppliers by price j.Determine if you can get the item at a low enough price to resell on eBay based on the current competition http://ebaysellingcoach.blogspot.com/2009/01/free-ebay-research-tool.html http://ebaysellingcoach.blogspot.com/2010/08/ebay-niche-product-finder.html