Find Thrift Store Items That Are In Demand On Ebay
Tom Graber
Thrift stores are filled with the unwanted clutter from thousands of homes in your area. And in those thrift stores are hundreds of items that may be junk to one person but worth a lot of money to someone else. Literally, one persons trash is another persons treasure. This is why using thrift stores in your area is such a great way to sell on eBay. They are everywhere, filled with lots of in demand name brands and have very reasonable prices with no minimum orders.
Now, most of the clothing items in thrift stores are not going to sell on eBay. These are the common names that you can find by the thousands. Names like Faded Glory, Croft & Barrow and Sonoma just are not in demand because they are not a bigger name brand and they are carried everywhere. But there are other names like Ralph Lauren, North Face and Lacoste and many more that are in demand on eBay. These are brands that the manufacturer spent tens and hundreds of millions of dollars over the years building a brand name that people want to own.
People like way certain brands are status symbols, or the durability or the quality of the way they are made. These brands are usually expensive and they will come to eBay because they want to get a good deal on these brands. They come to eBay to BUY.
This is the key to selling on eBay, knowing what names people are looking for.
There are hundreds of different brand names in your local thrift store. Only a tiny fraction of these are worth your attention, but if you look for them, you will find them. In order for you to hunt down the good items, you first have to know what you are looking for and that is only done by one way. RESEARCH! I know, it sounds like going back to school. Actually it really can be motivating once you research completed auctions on eBay because you will see the names of brands you have seen at your local thrift store and you will be amazed at what some people pay for these items.
The only way to know what to look for is by studying closed auctions on eBay. You MUST get to know different categories of clothing and what sells and what is in demand like jeans, sweaters and jackets as well as the gender group like mens, womens, boys or girls. Keep a notebook of all your searches. As you go on, you will start to see patterns emerge of certain names that are in demand. You also will gain knowledge and start to find more and more items that sell at a very nice profit on eBay. Your thrift store is full of them, you just have to be selective by being well armed with knowledge when you go into your local thrift store.
The fun of eBay is you never know what something will sell for. The genius of eBay is that it is an auction. If you have the right item at the right time and two or more bidders really want it and get into a bidding war, the sky is the limit to what it can sell for. You will see some crazy prices paid for some items in your research. This is what makes eBAy so thrilling as a seller. When you find one of those rarer, sought after items, you will be glued to your monitor as it gets closer and closer to the ending time.
Tom Graber is the author of Thrift Store Profits, a book about how to sell thrift store clothing and other items on eBay. You can get a free report on which http://www.thriftstoreprofits.com/ brand names that gets a lot of bids on eBay.His website is http://www.thriftstoreprofits.com/.
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