Be realistic sale on eBay, where ….

As some of you know, I have many years of buy and sell both inside and outside, and some of my products, which are based on my own experience in this field. I know that the vast majority of my customers and subscribers with an interest in trading either on eBay or in the local market, but more often I find myself fully, people with unrealistic expectations of what they are able to do so. More often than not, these unrealistic expectations in terms of how the actual cost of the acquisition of certain goods, then will be sold for.

I regularly get e-mails from people want to know where they can buy products such as mobile (cell) phones, New Release DVD, Playstation and games, such as the 50% discount on sale on eBay. The fact is that something is not available – it’s a simple case of supply and demand and competition.

Take, for example, DVD, which most people think they have excellent products for sale on eBay, they are very popular, not particularly expensive and easier to package and ship. Sorry, could not be more wrong. DVD market is one of the most competitive, that is – look at yourself and see how many auctions on eBay for DVD-ROM at any time. I only hope, and expects to nearly 300000! At any time there are only a certain number of buyers who want to buy a DVD, but if we take into account many different places there that each customer can buy, it is likely that in general there will be more copies of individual DVD available There are buyers to purchase them. This situation leads to a drop in prices. Other factors forcing prices down is the fact that the DVD is the same as another. By this I mean that the buyer point of view, there is no difference with the new DVD purchased on eBay to buy one of your local store for DVD. Often the only way to differentiate is on price, and, of course, the only way to make the price more attractive to a buyer, then lower.

The reasons help explain why the biggest discount on a new version of DVD is only £ 1 or 2 in most pound ($ 2 or $ 3 to about US). Taking into account the fact that large retail chains can purchase thousands of DVD, at the time, and you get a great discount for individual traders, and did not understand why it is very difficult for smaller companies to compete in a competitive industry. You just can not buy new DVD version of a 50% discount, and even if it will not be long before prices were forced to because there is always someone willing to sell a little cheaper than the next man.

This is not just a DVD-ROM drive that fall into this category. Take mobile (cell) phones. Here in the UK, you can go after almost every street, and get the latest phones for free or at least a token payment. Shops for their money out of the line rental, you must get on the phone. Of course, the actual cost of the phone is not free – most new phones are actually worth £ 200 or £ 300, which means that if you want to buy a batch of phones at the wholesale level, which will operate on a very high cost per unit. As in most electrical products, the market is competitive prices and have had that this means that the difference between the wholesale purchase price and the price at retail is minimal.

There are many products which suffer from the same market conditions, like DVD, cellular phones, new / small traders really should avoid trying to sell these objects at any cost, because it is typically frustrating and, ultimately, not in financially rewarding. When trying to decide which products to sell, you need to think about the kind of market that the product is sold in. If there are already many sellers and many large companies to sell significant discounts are anything but perfect. The exception to this rule, if they add value in some ways to make your offer “more unique. I wrote about the added value last year in one of my newsletter – you can read here: http://www.thetraderonline.com/ jul2204. html

In the end, we are talking about research, but also realistic about the market who want in. Although it would be nice to be able to buy and sell new release disc DVD (or another) throughout the day, double your money every time, I’m afraid That this will simply not happen.