A Never-Ending eBay Product Supply

So you’ve started to sell on eBay. Great! You have your own eBay account set up. You’ve sold the items that you can around the house. You’ve cleared out the clutter and run out of things to sell. Now what should you do?

The bottom line is that your success on eBay is directly related to the products you have to sell. If you don’t have any products to sell, then you don’t have an eBay business. How would you like a never-ending supply of products?

If so, then you should consider becoming an eBay Trading Assistant. A Trading Assistant is someone who “assists” another person sell an item on eBay. This means that you’ll take care of everything related to selling for that other person. You’ll take the pictures, write the descriptions, set the pricing and everything. So if your Aunt Gertrude wants you to sell her antiques on eBay, the you’ll be a Trading Assistant to her.

Now since your Aunt Gertrude is family, you would probably do this for free for her. Yet for neighbors in your community, you could do the same thing but charge them a small fee to do it, either a commission on the sale price, or a fixed fee. Or, if you found someone with a lot of products to sell, you could buy their products and resell them yourself.

You can literally have an unlimited supply of products to sell because chances are everyone has stuff lying around that they want to make a quick buck from. According to eBay, there is over $1000 worth of items around your home that you could sell. And if you help other people sell their stuff, you can have lots of products for many months to come.

Let’s say you do want to be a Trading Assistant. Well, there are two ways to do it. The first way is the “official way.” You do this by registering that you want to be a Trading Assistant on eBay. This allows you to be listed in the eBay Trading Assistant directory. However, before you can join the directory, you need to meet a few requirements. You first must have a feedback score of 100, and 98% of your feedback must be positive. Also, you need to have sold at least 10 items in the previous 3 months. Your eBay account must also be in good standing. For more information on the program, you can go to www.tradingassistant.com

If you don’t meet eBay’s requirements, however, don’t let that discourage you. You can still be a Trading Assistant “unofficially.” eBay can’t stop you from helping other people sell on eBay. The only real difference between being “offical” or “unofficial” is whether or not you can use eBay’s official Trading Assistant logo and be listed in the directory of Trading Assistants (so others can go onto eBay and find you). But regardless of whether you choose to be official or not, it’s always up to you to find who you can help.

A Trading Assistant needs to promote their services in order to find products to sell. You can do this by getting word of mouth buzz happening about you. Make sure that everybody knows what you do. Talk to your friends and neighbors and ask them if they need anything sold on eBay. The more people know about you, the more successful you’ll become. Post flyers. Put an ad in the paper. Whatever you can do to get people aware of you, the better.

There really is no end of products you can sell on eBay. With a little ingenuity, you can be the “go-to” person that takes care of everything eBay related.

Joel Holmes is the creator of the free eBay 101 Start Up Kit. In this easy to follow video kit he will show you precisely how to sell on eBay quickly and easily! Get your free copy while supplies last.