Most items have their high and low seasons…and some low selling seasons can last up to 6 months out of the year!
This is bad news if you count on your ebay income year round.
But there is one item that sells good all year round.? And it’s an item that you can EASILY get your hands on if you know how.?
What is this hot item?
TOYS!
Toys are one of the few items that sell well the entire year on ebay… The trick is knowing what toys will sell for profit!
You Can’t Afford to NOT Sell Toys On Ebay!
Next week I’m interviewing THE eBay Toy Selling Guru — Jenni Hunt.?
What Jenni does is pretty cool — she tracks the hot selling toys on eBay and then reports on these toys in her weekly? Hot Selling Toys listing report.?
Next week I’m going to interview Jenni and get her to spill the beans on a few of her techniques for FINDING these hot selling toys.? It’s going to be a great interview.? I’ll post it here on the blog (along with a transcript for my hearing impaired readers.
If you have any particular question you want me to ask Jenni post it in the comments section and I’ll work in as many as I can.
James
P.S.? Selling toys on eBay isn’t just a seasonal opportunity.? They sell good all year round.?
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Hello Jim,
My wife and I sold toys on eBay during the last Christmas season, and we did quite well (we made close to $5,000 in about 2 1/2 months). The toys we were selling have been taken off the market because of a safety hazard. We have not been able to find anything since then that sells well. The question I had is, where can we find high demand toys at reasonable prices to sell on eBay? We are signed up with Worldwide Brands, but I have not been able to find the right toy at the right price!!! In fact, I have not really found any high demand products at reasonable prices with them. Please help us if you can, we would be really grateful….in fact, I would be willing to give back a percentage of our profits to find a great selling item!!! I am not looking for any handouts, and I will stick to my word!!! Thanks, Greg K.
[...] What Item Sells Well All Year Long On Ebay? According to James Jones of the WhatReallySellsBlog, it’s… TOYS! [...]
I am very interested in selling toys, but after spending plenty of nights searching, I still have no clue where to find brand name toys at profitable prices. I do, however, know of about 100 sites that sell the same cheap junk you could expect to find in a dollar store or at a cheap stand in Mexico. If anybody has a good source let me know
-cogentops@hotmail.com
We started off on eBay selling toys. We went to our local Super Walmart and found they were having a sidewalk sale. They had some GI Joes that normally sold for about $30 on sale for $7. We bought up all they had plus found another walmart that was also clearancing them out. In total we bought and sold around 100 of them. We sold them anywhere from $15 to $25 each. I find that Walmart and Target will have some really deep discounts on some of their toys at certain times of the year.
Perhaps I just look at this in a different light ….
Instead of looking for ‘Toys’ to purchase or drop ship,
I start thinking of what type of toy I could make or
have made that might be a good seller.
I’ve seen great homemade wooden toys sell in
many places besides auction sites.
Art
I would like to know how to make a ‘Best Guess’ on what will be the future Hot Products will be. How to find the trend first!!!!
I never would have guessed that toys are what sell best on Ebay. I will have to look into this sometime soon.
I have researched toys a bit… you still gotta find a good source and the right toys. It can be challenging.
Personally I find books to be the easiest products to both find and sell for big profits on ebay. My source was thrift shops where I would regularly pick up books for $2-$25 selling them for 300-600% profits every time.
I often sold my books for 3x what the competition got by simply doing a little historical research, pointing out an interesting historical fact or passage or two.
This was back when I was first getting started online.
I also sold high end resale rights products. Products that were well advertised in the IM niche but that had limited numbers of resellers. I liked that especially well because I could duplicate them and whenever I had an auction with more than one bidder I would send out second chance offers to all the other bidders and make 1 or 2 extra sales from just one listing. In this way I was able to triple my profits from my auctions and not have to pay listing fees on the extra sales.
It had been a while since I was on ebay selling because I am so busy with a very successful and thriving online business that I have built up over the years but I decided to try my hand on ebay a couple days ago.
I had checked out the market for a used item I had and found it selling in a few week long auctions for between $400 and $500.
I did not feel like waiting a week for my auction to close to I listed the item at $450, wrote a personal experience about the item, placed a buy it now with required instant payment and paypal only and wrote in the copy that if they did not snap it up someone would grab the deal and it would be gone in an instant.
2 hours later I had $450 in my paypal account.
I guess those other sellers either had more time on their hands or did not know how to close a deal fast.
Toys may sell best on ebay but competing in the ebay toy market and selling enough volume to make serious money looks like it would take an eye for what is hot, a good wholesale source, a personal collection to sell, or some knowledge about collectable toys and an eye to spot the hot sellers in thrift shops and yard sales.
Hi,
I’ve been selling toys for 2 yrs. on Ebay. I do not find that they sell well January-March, & September & October. What do others expierence during these months? Also I would like to know a good wholesale source too.
Thanks,
Ann
Hi,
I really dove into selling toys last Christmas. It was extremely lucrative and I did pretty well right through February. After that and until the X-mas selling season starts again you really need to tap into what’s hot and hard to find. This can change at a moments notice so you really have to stay on top of the research!
I would like to know if there are any reputable wholesale companies for toys.
Thanks!
Trish
Q #1: Do toys from other countries/cultures sell well? Not talking mass-produced knockoffs of American toys, but ones marketed in other countries for their own consumers that we might never see.
Q #2: Toys produced in other countries sometimes have unacceptable levels of lead in the materials. It there a way to research companies/products known to have this problem?
Thank you.
I don’t really have a comment. I have been reading about the opcoming interview with Jenni and I just want to ask a question about selling toys on ebay. Is there a specific age group to look at as far as selling toys? Do some age groups sell more or better than others?
Thanks
Gary Fowler
I have a lot of retired Beanie Babies and would like to sell them for at least what I paid for them, about $6.00/each. Most are selling on eBay for around $1-2. Does Jenni Hunt have any suggestions.
Thanks,
Andrea
Hi,
I just finished listening to Jenni Hunt’s interview about toys and it was pretty interesting but not earthshaking because it seems we all still have the same problems and questions.
Where do find toys cheap and how do we spot a trend?
I wish I had the answers but I don’t and I hear as I read the comments that naturally everyone wants to see the trend coming almost like like the train engine light in a dark tunnel. We want someone to slap us on the back of the head and say “here is what’s gonna sell next”.
I wish it was that easy. If enough of us got together, we could probably create our own hysteria over a must have toy just by buying out enough of any one toy to create a shortage and then just put out a comment here and there about not being able to find such and such a toy even as your closets overflow with it.
When the mass “must have” hysteria starts looking then we start listing.
I say this with tongue in cheek but it basically the same principle used to talk up a movie or an actor for an award.
I guess I will keep watching and reading until I see a better idea.
Thanks,
Joe