Free eBay Terapeak Product Research Tool

This article will explain the basics of how to use eBay’s free Terapeak product research tool. It will also give a comparison between the free tool and the full version.

Have you ever had a hard time knowing exactly what to sell on eBay? Or to know if it will be competitive or not in that market? Now there is a tool that you can do your basic research for buying and selling on eBay, this tool is Terapeak.

To use the tool, simply go to the Terapeak home page and click on free tools. You are directed to a page that has a text field for your product keyword and a field for your email address. Ignore the email address field and enter a keyword phrase. Once a keyword phrase has been included, the following information will break down the results.

This is the information you will get in a basic search report.

1. You can find out what the average starting price of your product is so that you don’t have your product higher than everyone else’s.
2. You can research the average final price of a product to see what kind of profit that specific product can bring you.
3. Research can be done in a range of 7, 30 and 90 days, giving you a better representation of the product history.
4. The tool will give the number of total listings with a percentage of the direct sales rate, that is, of the total of listings in a given amount of time, how many of them were sold. This tells you if the product can sell well or not.
5. The tool will let you know what day, time of day, and keyword phrases that produced the best results for your product listing.
6. The tool will let you know what type of promotional ad to use, for example by using bold, highlighting, or both.
7. It will let you know if it is better to list the item for 1, 3, 5, 7 or 10 days.
8. Finally, the tool will let you know if it is better to post an offer, buy it now or items from the store.

Now this is the free Terapeak research tool, the full version comes with much, much more than that. Below are a couple of tools that you will get with the full version over the free version.

1. You can do a search for the best sellers
2. You can watch sales trends over a long period of time to really see which products are selling on eBay and which are not.
3. You can research which categories are selling the most
4. You get a heat map of the product that helps you sell the most popular categories by deals, total sales, deals by list, and more.
5. Hot Product List, You Can Find Out Who Are The Boosters And Shakers Of DVD, CD, Video Game And Book
6. You can save your search for later reference.
7. You can see the specific trend of a seller.
8. You can search specific DVDs, CDs, video games and books by their UPC

These are just some of the comparisons between the free tool and the full version of Terapeak.