How to find the best of fashion products at the best of prices on ebay
I have been an online shopping addict since a few years now. When I set on eye on something, I def have to buy it at the best of price. After I moved to India, I started to shop at ebay.co.uk andebay.com and found these following (secret) mantras by experience. Although a few of the following tricks are plain logic, rest are a matter of chance, never the less I have shopped a few of my most loved items using these :
1. Set your heart on what you want to buy.. As simple as it sounds, you need to make up your mind on what you want to spend your money on. Ebay has some great items and it is very easy to feel a little 'carried away'. So keep focus ladies!
2. You need persistence: Yes! You read it right. You earn your buck with hardwork and you should spend it wisely. When looking for a specific item on eBay, spend a few minutes everyday for about a week to see the selling pattern of the item. If the item is listed regularly, then new matches will pop up everyday and if you have a good memory you will remember them and won't have to go through the entire list everyday. Just a few minutes everyday will tell you a lot about how much bidders are willing to shell out.
3. One man's mistake is another man's opportunity! Yes, if you are a buyer, try and take full advantage of this. A few times, listers do not spell check their listings and this skips this item from the main search. If it is a popular item, chances are that this 'typo error' may appear as a related search in the bit right below the search bar. Click on related search to see what's available in store for you. People usually skip out on this and there are not many bidders trying to get that item. For e.g.: a feather skirt could have been mistyped as a 'feater' skirt. Sometimes brands are misspelled too!
4. Number trick: British, European and American have different shoe sizing charts. When buying shoes on eBay, try to search for your shoe size in all these formats on ebay.com/ ebay.co.uk. For e.g if you are a US size 6, then look for size 36(European format) in the search. Sometimes listers use different size formats and you should bank on this!
5. Look for 'not specified' in the size section. Say for example, if you wear a size xs in skirts, then tap on the size type and tick mark the 'not specified' box as well. This may lead you to your dream skirt without much of a competition, because most people go specific with their searches
6. What's in the name: if you are bidding on popular items, go for a vague search in the search bar and then refine the options later on. For example, if you are looking for a Lady Dior bag, only type 'Dior' in the search bar and then refine your search in the 'categories' section. Usually luxury items are listed in full detail but a few items you may find great deals this way
7. Festivals and holidays are tricky: Around Christmas or New Years when most people have money to spend on shopping and drinks, people finding great deals online..lots of people also take time off from e-shopping.
8. Weekday deals: research says that Sunday evening is perhaps the time of peak traffic on eBay and one should end their listing in those few hours to get maximum return on their products. Having said this, I have experienced that Saturday nights are also tough competition. Weekdays are usually time when people are busy at work and morning to afternoon hours don't see much traffic bidding on items. Sometimes listing end at weird morning hours like really early in the morning and if you are able to bid at these hours, chances are that you will crack a great deal
I will keep updating this section with time, but I hope you enjoyed reading this and let me know if any of the above listed tricks helped you win something exciting!