eBay niche discovery tool

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I am looking for a tool, that given generic keywords (like "dog food") would return the best selling specific items in this niche.

Anything like that exists (i am pretty sure it does)?

Gleb
#discovery #ebay #niche #tool
  • Profile picture of the author Steve B
    Gleb:

    Years ago, eBay had a search feature called "Hot Items" where they would list the auctions with the most bids in any category you chose.

    That is as close to what you're asking for as I have ever seen.

    Unfortunately, they discontinued Hot Items for whatever reason.

    I have seen nothing to replace it.

    Steve
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    • Profile picture of the author spring008
      I recommend you using terapeak.com services for ebay market research.Although I have got UK market rsearch option for them.I believe it cost you something 24 $ per month.
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  • Profile picture of the author MemberWing
    Terapeak sounds certainly interesting, thanks.

    Gleb
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  • Profile picture of the author I.M.Retired
    Hi Gleb: Bill Myers has created an excellent tool that might be of interest to you.

    You can read about it here:

    Auction HotLister: Find niches and attract visitors to your web site by including customized eBay Hot Items listings on your web pages

    Auction Hot Lister creates the hot list for you, and gives you a code snippet you can paste into your web or blog pages to permanently include the hotlist.

    The hot-list always shows the current results from eBay - so it is never out-of-date, and changes with every bid at eBay.

    Since creating hot-lists like the one above can add interest to your niche topic site, and since it only takes a few seconds to create the hot-list, you might want to include several, showing the 'most wanted' items within sub-niches of the overall topic.

    Very Useful

    Whether you use Auction Hot Lister as a research tool, or to create hot-lists for visitors on your web site, you'll find it a valuable resource.
    Here's the link to Auction Hotlister:

    Auction HotLister

    I like using the tool to help me generate titles and categories if I'm selling an item I'm not overly familiar with. It also shows the number of bids and watchers on the items it pulls up. It would be great if this tool worked for completed listings only!

    Just curious - do you live in the Glebe?
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