In Illy Coffee Espresso & Cappuccino Cups & Saucers I mentioned that I’d just recently learned about Illy cups and saucers through Lynn Dralle’s Lynn’s eBay Ezine.

I’m always on the lookout for new eBay newsletters. Sometimes they are of no value, but many contain information about items that do well on eBay I’m not aware of and ideas I can implement that will make my eBay business more profitable or streamlined.

Over the years I’ve probably subscribed to well over a hundred different eBay newsletters. Some are no longer published. Some I’ve unsubscribed to because they were mostly vehicles to deliver affiliate links.

Most of the one’s I still subscribe to are published by people who actually sell on eBay and write about specific items they have had success with or about the results of various ideas/techniques they have tried in their business.

Here’s a list of six that represent some of the best around. While they may not contain useful information in every issue, they do provide it regularly enough that I stay subscribed. The title of each is linked to a page you can subscribe from if you wish to.
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In response to a question about eBay research sites on an eBay news group today I went to my bookmarks to grab the links to two sites to use in a response. While doing so I was struck by how many eBay research sites I have bookmarked on my computer.

They encompass a wide range of antiques, collectibles, and other things. Everything from perfume bottles, pottery, toys, books, and more. One of the things on my to-do list is to create a research page on the blog that would contain all of them, but I don’t seem to be getting any closer to getting it done than I was six months ago.

Until that gets done, I thought I’d share a few of them. The ten listed here cover a wide range of antiques/collectibles. I’ve chosen them because each does a good job presenting useful and comprehensive information about their specific area of interest.
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There are several eBay research tools available that provide detailed auction information aimed that helping sellers increase the profitability of their auctions. Some of the more popular are eBay Market Research, Terapeak, HammerTap, and MPire to name a few.

Basically, each of these eBay research tools are the same. They collect information from closed sales on eBay and break it down into segments of information that usually include things such as:

• Total dollars in sales
• Highest selling price
• Lowest selling price
• Average sales price
• Starting prices
• Total number of items listed
• Number of items that sold
• Sell-through rates
• Best day to end auctions in a category
• Best time to end auctions in a category
• Most productive keywords
• Whether using additional features such as Bold or Gallery Photos increase sales
• Sales trends within a category
• And more

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