UK - eBay Searches - US to UK Cross-sell Help

Using This Category

This category is primarily designed for eBay sellers to find goods which can be bought and imported from the US version of eBay with a view to relisting and selling on the UK site at a profit.
Find items on the US site and compare against recently sold items in the UK to see what their UK value is.
Although US items are often listed on the UK site, many UK buyers are not interested in buying goods directly from the US. By importing these goods and relisting them with descriptions aimed at the UK market, UK eBay sellers can make a profit on certain items even when taking into account listing, postage and duty fees.

Mistyped Items

Website Bidtastic provides a variety of mistyped and misspelt searches on eBay.
Quite often items in an auction with a mistyped or misspelt title will not be found by most bidders and so these items can often be won at a cheaper price.
There are two types of misspelt search available in this category on eBay.com:

• The first link provides general mistypings which involve missed letters, doubling up of letters and swapping letter positions, for each letter in the search term.
• The second link provides proximity mistypings which involves replacing each letter of the search term with each of its closest neighbours on the keyboard.

eBay Searches

• The third link searches for items for which the auction has recently ended on eBay.co.uk.
  Use this search to see what price similar items have recently sold for in the UK. (Where the price is red the item was unsold.)
  You must be registered with eBay to carry out a completed item search. Tick the "Stay Logged On" box when logging onto eBay and you only need logon once.
• The fourth link searches the auction title for the search term on eBay.co.uk.
  Use this search to see what similar items are currently up for sale in the UK, which you would be competing against.
• The third link searches the auction title for the search term on eBay.com.
  Use this search to see what similar items are currently up for sale on the US site.

Useful Info

The Revenue and Customs link displays the Customs and Excise website with details of what VAT, Duty and Excise may be payable on goods bought over the Internet from foreign countries. A downloadable document is available with details for common goods.

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