Posted on 03 April 2006 by Gary H
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Posted on 01 February 2006 by Gary H
In Finding A Profitable Collectible/Antique eBay Niche - Part III we looked at eBay to see if stereoviews were a potentially profitable sub-niche for an eBay business. We found from our initial research that there were several factors that detracted from their potential as a profitable sub-niche on ebay.
At this point most people would probably decide stereoviews weren’t a good prospect and begin looking for a different niche. However, stereoviews have two characteristics that make me think we should dig a little deeper.
- They are available at most antique shops, malls, and flea markets at reasonable prices
- There appears to be several smaller sub-niches to the stereoview sub-niche that warrant additional research
If you look closer there are some very obvious deeper sub-niches that show up.
The first one, and the one that regularly brings the highest prices realized, is complete boxed sets. Another is stereoviews of anything related to the Civil War. Any early Native American related stereoview looks like it’s also a good seller. Risqué stereoviews also sell well. Stereoviews of railroad locomotives also seem to sell well.
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Posted on 29 January 2006 by Gary H
Yesterday in Finding A Profitable Collectible/Antique eBay Niche - Part II we researched a potentially profitable eBay niche by looking at what was available in antique shops, antique malls and flea markets. We chose stereoview cards because they fit the criteria we’d set out in Finding A Profitable Collectible/Antiques eBay Niche - Part I.
Today, in Part III, we will head over to eBay and see how well stereoview cards fit the remaining five criteria for a profitable eBay niche. Lets get started.
We will begin our research at eBay’s Completed Listing page by typing “stereoview” into the search box at the top of the page, making sure you check the “search completed items” box, and then sorting our results by “price: highest first.”
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Posted on 28 January 2006 by Gary H
In Part I of this series I explained how I go about finding profitable niches within the antiques/collectibles categories on eBay. In part II of this series we are going to look at one specific niche and see if it meets the criteria I set to further research it’s profit potential on eBay.
The niche I’ve chosen to explore is stereoview cards. For those who don’t know what these are here’s a picture of the front and back of one.
A stereoview card is usually a piece of thing cardboard that measures approx. 8″ x 4″ and has two identical, but separate, images imprinted side by side on it. When viewed through a stereoscope viewer the image appears three dimensional to the viewer. These were extremely popular with consumers between the mid 1800s and the 1920s.
Now let’s see how they stack up against the first five criteria we’ve established for a potentially profitable eBay niche.
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Posted on 27 January 2006 by Gary H
Yesterday I received an email from a woman, who had just read a post I made on an auction forum three years ago finding profitable eBay niches in the antique/collectible categories, wanting to know if I still considered the information to be valid. My response was that basically, three years later, I’m still using the same methods to come up with new eBay niches and sub-niches to target.
Since the original post was made on a forum inside a paid subscription site with a limited subscriber base, and since it’s three years old, I thought I’d post it here again because it gives an accurate description of how you can go about finding these eBay niches. Then, since I’ve been researching one of these sub-niches and am about to dive into it, over the next week or two I’ll show how I found this niche, how I researched it, how I plan to exploit it, and how you should be able to also.
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