Ebay & Amazon clothing sellers

brandlogic

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I want to sell men's branded clothing on Ebay or Amazon.

The brands are high'ish priced - like Ted Baker. T-shirts, hoodies etc.

I'd appreciate advice from anyone who has sold similar on Ebay or Amazon?

Can T-shirts sell for £30?
 
I think you're going to have a tough time selling brand name, commodity items on third party marketplaces (I've been there). I think it would be a better strategy to focus on a niche product or brand first before you attempt to compete on volume. (if you can compete at all)
 
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amac is absolutely correct. If the items you want to sell are already listed on Amazon, and they most probably are, you are not allowed to relist them again, separately - you have to piggyback yourself onto the existing listing, and that means you have to compete on price. Unless you can win the Buy box, which is really, really hard to do, you will sell pretty much naff all.

As amac said, the key to making real money on Amazon is either to find a supplier with items not currently listed, or invent your own branded products (everything is available from China), making sure your products have an 'angle' that gives them a chance to be found by people with niche requirements.

The real key to success on Amazon is research, research and more research - keywords are vital. Go on Amazon and type in a brand name - for example, 'Ted Baker' - you will see Amazon's keyword suggestions underneath. This tells me people search for 'Ted Baker purse', 'Ted Baker makeup bag' and others. Do this and then see what results you get from these searches for specific product types, which have been made by previous visitors (that's why they come up as suggestions). but it doesn't have to just be about brands. If you just type in 'makeup' you can see that 'makeup organiser' is a popular search - over 1,400 products come up though! Some people search for 'makeup organiser black' - now you are down to 203 products. Hone it down to see if you can find any gaps you could fill, or at least where there isn't much competition for you to aim at.

If selling and making money on Amazon was as easy as getting hold of some designer goods and listing them, we'd all be millionaires by now. I hope you don't think that's a mean thing to say, I just don't want you to waste your time and money without thinking hard about the realities of it, first.

All the best
 
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Amazon and Ebay are highly competitive, price led, market places. The exact opposite of premium priced, sought after stuff.

Having said that, VERY sort after things - like, for example, PATTA shirts, would probably make a reasonable price. Middle ground, but premiumish stuff will make about 40% if retail.
 
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Here's a different angle for you - does it actually matter what you sell? The key thing on Amazon is to make sure you have sufficent margin to pay for the fees, and to make sure that the sales rank is pretty good. (Sales rank is a relative indicator of how well a product is selling compared to others in its category) There are tools like camelcamelcamel that allow you to see historic sales rank and pricing history - vital for any inventory selection
 
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Depends on how good your product quality is. First analyse the market with same kind of product and then put the best price you can. If you can sell more at the first then you can
 
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Have you looked into selling niche t-shirts? Looked at a few times with a family member.
 
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