What Should You Sell on eBay?

The short answer is; anything you can get forAndres
less than its actual worth.One way of findingPS2 GAME GTA SANANDREAS
cheap goods to resell is by finding misspelt itemsGRAND THEFT AUTO - SAN ADREAS
listed by other eBayers. Suggesting this tends toPS2 Grand Theft Auto San AnderasMy own
get you shot down in flames by non-believers -listing title was optimised to ensure I captured as
but it does work.For example:Consider one of themany potential buyers as possible through the
most popular video games of the last couple ofsearch facility:Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
years - Grand Theft Auto San Andreas.If, in thePlaystation 2 Game PS2 GTANo keyword
middle of 2005, you could've bought this game forspamming, no ridiculous "L@@K" or "W@W", just
£10, do you think you could've maderelevant words which an interested buyer would
money? Of course you could, people were morebe searching for.Total profit from the 7 listings
than willing to pay £20 or so on eBay forafter all fees and costs: £29.74 (+ 7 positive
this game.Figuring out that many people wouldfeedback points)As you may or may not know,
spell a word like Andreas wrong, I did a littleSan Andreas is now available online for
experiment.Using an eBay arbitrage tool, such as£14.99 or less, brand new and so it is not a
the one found at I simply entered "san andreas"viable profitmaker anymore. The game went
into the box and clicked Generate.I was thenplatinum after Christmas and so halved in
given a clickable link which immediately searched allprice.However, there are plenty of other games
of eBay for misspellings of "Sanwhich have slightly "complicated" spelling - the
Andreas".Typically, each time I did this I would gettitles of which many people will make mistakes in
around 20-30 results.Next, I simply noted downspelling.Look at the Amazon top 25 every couple
the worst spelt examples and their eBay itemof days and note down the titles of the items at
numbers.The most I was willing to pay for a PS2the top of the chart. You can do this with any
version of the game was £11.50 in total i.e.particular niche, just browse to the sections
the winning price plus the postage and packing.So,where your interest lies and you will see the
I saved this search in the "My eBay" section of"Amazon Hot 25" list.For example - the Hot 25
this site and every couple of days would notePS2 Games (with spelling mistakes found on eBay
down new additions.After finding the itemin brackets):TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
numbers I then went to and set up automatic(TimeSlitters, timespitters, Timsplitters,
bidding on each item in the last 6 seconds for mytimespliters)
maximum price.If the postage for a PS2 versionShadow of the Colossus (COLOSSU)
of the game was £2, my maximum bid priceThe Chronicles of Narnia (Cronicles)
was set at £9.50.The net result was that IStar Wars Battlefront II (BATTELFRONT,
was bidding on any misspelt San Andreas gameBATTLEFORNT)
automatically whether I was at my PC at theGran Turismo 4 (Tursimo, TRISMO)Others:King
time or not.Out of 45 attempts, I won 7 of theKong (King King, Kingkong)
games - the cheapest at £8.50, the mostGrand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories (LIBERY,
expensive at £11.50.Once I had the gamesLIBERT, LIBETY)
"in hand", I simply listed them on eBay for a BuyPerfect Dark Zero (prefect)If you simply find the
It Now price of between £16.50 tomisspelt items, decide a maximum bid, set up
£18.00 with £2 postage charge. Eachyour auction sniper and leave it to run, you will
game was sold within the 10 day listing time for amake money.Of course, video games are just a
healthy profit.Examples of titles of the auctions Isimple example - your niche may be even more
bid on were as follows:Grand theft auto - Sanprofitable!