subject: Who Is The Biggest Seller On Ebay In Your Niche Market? [print this page] The success of many sellers on eBay should encourage you that there is plenty of money for you to make in buying and selling on eBay. One thing that is useful to know as you continue to grow is how to identify the answer to the question 'who is the biggest seller on eBay in my particular niche market?'
Success can be emulated, and discovering how other people have made it could help you to be just as successful with your own profitable business.
Fortunately the job of finding out who is the biggest seller on eBay doesn't involve trawling through hundreds, or even thousands, of auctions to find the one seller that has sold the most of a particular item. It doesn't even involve trying to drill down through the results that a Google search would offer to you. No, all that you need to do is take advantage of a tool that eBay actually offers for free that will inform you who is the biggest seller on eBay in any category at a glance.
It sounds too good to be true, but a subsection of the eBay website, eBay Pulse, provides all of this information for you. On the Pulse homepage you will instantly be able to see the largest current eBay shops, based on how many listings they currently have active on the auction website. While this information regarding some of the most successful shops is useful, it would be more useful to know what sort of competition you will be facing within your own niche market.
This is also possible by utilising the Pulse website. At the top of the page you will find a dropdown list called Category which enables you to drill down into the different categories that eBay offers. Let's say, for example, that your niche market is baby car seats, you would first open the menu to select the 'Baby' option. Now if you were to open the Category dropdown list again you could select 'Car Seats & Accessories'. There is even the option to narrow down your search still further by breaking the category into 'Car Seats' or 'Car Seat Accessories'.
You should notice that each time you selected a new subcategory, the Largest Shops section of the page will change. This section is updated to display who is the biggest seller on eBay in each category that you are looking at. From this page you can click directly onto the shop of the top sellers to start to perform some crucial market research into the following areas:
- Price; how much are your competitors charging for what you'll be selling. Can you afford to match it or sell for a lower price?
- Auction details; how many auctions are listed on their page? Do they sell one particular item or several products within the same niche? Perhaps you could specialise in an area that they only vaguely cover.
- Completed listings; eBay will allow you to look at the auctions that have already ended for a particular supplier. Look at details such as how much items sold for and when the best time to end them is.
