How To Find Hot Products

Use eBay's Completed Listings facility to see whether a product is hot or not. In Advanced Search, type in your keyword, then click on Completed Listings underneath. It will show you which auctions in the last 2 weeks completed successfully (in green) and which did not (in red). If there are a lot of reds, then the product is probably not popular, although there may be other reasons those products didn’t sell.

This gives you a general idea of what sort of products are worthwhile spending time on in further research.

You can also examine the auctions for title, description, and starting price to work out why one auction was successful, and another wasn’t.

Once you’ve found a popular niche/keyword, then go to Terapeak to research it further, and get exact information on competitors, sales reports, when to sell, how much to sell for, and more. This information is a must for serious sellers, if you want to make money selling on eBay