eBay niche products price level

[Narayan]

When building an ebay niche store you have to choose the products you want to sell via the ebay affiliate program. I'm currently wondering about the pricing.

Here are the two main information:

1. eBay Fee for the seller of the product sold (= ebay's earnings)
eBay.com Fees (about 6-15% + less % for higher prices)

2. commission paid to the affiliate from those earnings:
https://publisher.ebaypartnernetwork...1&isExternal=1 (about 50%+)

The question for choosing niche and products is:

Is it good to choose high-price products over low-price? Or is the lower price = more sales logic a compensation for potential lesser sales? (you have to keep the lowering % of high-price products in mind)

[Bujuk]

yes, high priced items will bring-in more money, but the possibility of purchase is less. on the otherhand the low priced items will bring in less money per items, however the possibility of people making the purchase is high. so you have to depend on volume.

there is no specific hard and fast rule. you have to do lot of testing and fine tuning. that is a reason finding the RIGHT niche is important and critical.

[Narayan]

Yes, thanks. Has someone made some experience with different priced products? Two extremes would be a) sport-cars or maybe rolex watches and b) wii games.

Which would be a better choice, if traffic levels are being kept equal?

[Alan Petersen]

Small prices items can lead to bigger purchases as well. The point is to get the traffic to eBay. I've had folks who went to eBay through my archery site and they ended buying a car. Once you get them to eBay via your niche store the cookie is set for 7 days so anything bought during those 7 days you get credit for the sale. So they can come in from your site promoting $5 widgets then they wander off to look at other items and they buy a $20,000 car you get the commission for sale of that car if made within 7 days.

[Narayan]

Sounds good, this post also supports this thought: Finding niches with potential for phpBay sites | phpBay Tips

Although I don't think that you could count on those "second" sales. It seems like a good balanced niche where you can get traffic for users willing to buy is the way ...

I'm still not so clear about high-price niches. Say sports-cars. If you have a conversion-rate on your site of about 0,1%, that may be a good money-maker.

[Virtual Banker]

Originally Posted by Narayan

Sounds good, this post also supports this thought: Finding niches with potential for phpBay sites | phpBay Tips

Although I don't think that you could count on those "second" sales. It seems like a good balanced niche where you can get traffic for users willing to buy is the way ...

I'm still not so clear about high-price niches. Say sports-cars. If you have a conversion-rate on your site of about 0,1%, that may be a good money-maker.

not to digress too much, but EPN pays on a % of ebay listing and final value fees so if you sell a car you will only get about $100

(last week I sold a 40k porche911 off a click on a blender)
really what you want is lots and lots of targeted clicks. they will end up buying lots of interesting things as eBay is a proven converter.

[Bujuk]

Originally Posted by Virtual Banker

not to digress too much, but EPN pays on a % of ebay listing and final value fees so if you sell a car you will only get about $100

(last week I sold a 40k porche911 off a click on a blender)
really what you want is lots and lots of targeted clicks. they will end up buying lots of interesting things as eBay is a proven converter.

that will be nice
unfortunately that will not happen everyday.

my strategy is to encourage our visitor to click the "rover" link as soon as possible, then the possibility of getting revenue if bigger. regardless of our niche.