Electronics & Tablets/Desktop
Electronics & Tablets/Desktop products are ones of the best selling items on eBay. The best popular items are speakers, headphones, and automated home technologies such as TVs, ovens, lights, and speakers, or Computers/Tablets & Networking, Tablet & eBook Reader Accs, and Laptop & Desktop Accessories.
Among them, headphones and smart speakers are the two hottest items. Besides, your shoppers tend to buy branded-tech items from JBL, Sony Apple or Samsung, etc. The price range for these electronics is pretty large depending on which product you sell. For example, the top headphone’s price varies from $36.99 to $183.85.
However, there are some worth noting problems when selling these products
- DOA (Dead on Arrival issues): In fact, there are a number of failed products by default from your supplier. So if you don’t wanna get bad reviews from your customers, you should check one by one yours.
- Battery issues: If you sell battery-powered products such as laptops or BlueTooth speakers, you will face some problems relating to Lithium-Ion Batteries restrictions. For example, you need to meet the requirements for shipping services, weight limit, and so on.
- Complexity of use: Depending on how complex your products are, you have to deal with customer support issues. It is because not all of your shoppers are good at technology.
If you don’t cope with these issues wisely, you might receive bad reviews and complaints about your products/ service from customers.
Clothing & Shoes
Clearly, Clothing & Shoes is an attractive industry for any merchant running a business on eBay. Lower digital barriers to entry for all clothing merchants offer the opportunity to market, sell, and fulfill orders globally and automatically.
Best selling items on eBay in terms of Clothing grant the names of Jeans, Men’s T-shirts, and Men’s hats.
Most of the best-selling Men’s hats are cap and wool watch cap style. Plus, shoppers tend to choose items that have famous brands like Adidas, Nike or Rothco.
About Shoes, the most popular products are Sneakers and Running shoes that are made by famous brands like Nike, Adidas, and Puma. The medium price for these best selling Men’s Athletic shoes is $54.3
But wait! There are some notable things when you start selling Clothing and Shoe items on eBay:
- Large MOQs (Minimum Order Quantities): There are a bunch of online merchants importing clothing from China then sell them on eBay. In fact, products in China are usually manufactured in massive quantities. So in case you want to have clothes with your own brand, they might ask you for high minimum quantities like 500 or even 1000 products. It seems impossible to those who have a small budget.
- Sizing issues: Although you give detailed sizing instructions, it’s unavoidable that you may need to deal with returned products that don’t fit your shoppers.
- Overstock: Please remember that changes in season bring changes in fashion. It means it’s hard to avoid over-stock. Therefore, you should manage your stock carefully and launch essential sales promotion campaigns.
Fitness
Today, more and more people do fitness to be stronger, have a healthy lifestyle, and get a well-built body. In addition, The COVID-19 Pandemic has made a great contribution to increasing the demand for Sporting products. Therefore, Fitness products including yoga equipment are becoming one of the best selling items on eBay.
According to eBay, best selling Fitness Equipment and Gear products are Resistance Loop Bands, Aerobic Step, and Suspension Trainer. They are the home fitness equipment that the shoppers can easily buy and do exercise at home conveniently.
However, there are a couple of particular challenges that only exist in the fitness industry that you should be aware of to overcome:
- Technical specifications: Each fitness product is for some specific exercises only. Depending on the usage and technical complexity of the fitness products you sell, you have to show these specs in the neatest, most organized way possible.
- Industry competition: Many fitness products are too expensive or inconvenient for individuals to buy, so hiring is also a good choice. Beside dealing with other fitness sales companies, you also have to cope with lenders/renters. This rivalry is extremely hard because you might be selling the same brands and styles as your rivals. In that case, make sure to distinguish yourself by offering better deals such as post-purchase services return policy, maintenance and guarantee if necessary.
- Service and repair plan for equipment: Similar to other types of equipment, fitness equipment has its own lifespan. You may meet any costs incurred as a result of the offering a guarantee. The main challenge here is balancing this with your cost to keep a reasonable profit margin, especially when the price is such a major determining factor in whether or not you win more sales.
Furniture & Home Decor
Furniture and Home Decor are top-selling items under the Home and Garden industry on eBay. Home Decor Market Report 2020 points out that the Home decor market is witnessing a robust growth all over the world. Due to the rapid growth of the real estate industry, the sharing of decor trends and other factors, the number of customers for these products is increasing and more enormous.
Home furniture, Afghans & Throw Blankets, and Bookends are the hottest products of Furniture and Home Decor.
Before choosing products in this niche to sell on an online platform like eBay, you should be aware of the following issues:
- Shipping furniture is expensive: Beside distance, the shipping fee also depends on the size and weight of your products. Meanwhile, the majority of furniture is made of wood or other heavy materials, which pushes your furniture shipping cost up a lot. Moreover, it would be harder for furniture retailers to ship nationwide compared to other items.
- Delivery time: It can take up to weeks or months to ship big items to the door of your customers.
- Products sourcing: it is really hard to find good styles at good prices online. A lot of online furniture is ugly. Affordable wholesale furniture is generally badly designed, so it is hard to curate good design relative to the better multi-channel retailers.
Jewelry & Watches
Statista, a famous research website shows that global online jewelry sales are predicted to reach a market value of $340 billion by 2023, later reaching $645 billion by 2035. What an impressive number! Pl, Jewelry and Watches are lightweight, easy to ship compared to some Electronics shipping restrictions. So, they are ideal products to sell on one of the largest global eCommerce platforms – eBay.
The winning products in Jewelry & Watches categories are Fashion Necklaces & Pendants, Wristwatch Bands, and Wristwatch.
There are some worth noting things if you are going to run a jewelry and watch online store:
- Designs: Okay, now your shoppers are visiting a fashion store. So make sure everything on your site from the site interface to product images has a good look. Let’s upload high-quality product photos to improve the user experience and sell more.
- Auction style listings: This is an excellent feature for selling jewelry, especially if you’re marketing secondhand pieces. eBay auction allows you to choose a start price for an item. The shoppers are interested then place bids. When the auction ends, you sell the product at a higher price.
Collectibles
TV & Movie Character Toys are the best selling items on eBay under the Collectibles category.
Based on the 2020 toy and gaming trends report, the effect of cartoon characters from TV shows and movie franchises like Star Wars, Marvel, etc increased demand for themed toys and games.
Pet supplies
Sure! According to CommonThread, Pet Supplies Industry Global Growth is skyrocketing and the Online Pet market is blooming. There are thousands of store owners who sell pet supplies on eBay and get considerable profit from these products. The customers consuming pet supplies are varying, from children to adults, every gender and occupation.
In terms of Pet Supplies, we shouldn’t miss the place for Dog and Cat Supplies. These products are the best selling items on eBay including dog food, cat food, and cat tree.
Crafts
During the COVID-19 Pandemic, people have more free time to seek out Do It Yourself (DIY) crafts. Having an increasing consumers interest, the craft category is also one of the best selling items on eBay. You can search for 851,580 craft items on Etsy, divided into different categories.
These are the most popular Crafts categories on eBay:
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