It is no secret that research is a must, in order to succeed on eBay. Research allows you to eliminate risk, sell more often and find new products to sell. In order to perform good research on eBay it is best to use an analysis application such as Hammertap. Hammertap brings many features to eBay research. Most notably the ability to perform a search and get highly detailed information about activity on eBay. Information and details such as best auction type, effective listing features, optimal ending day, busiest hour, best listing duration, most competitive category, winning titles, enticing starting prices, seasonal trends and successful keywords are all obtainable with HammerTap.
As we all know eBay is highly competitive and it is never wise to enter a diluted eBay market. Hammertap allows you to investigate a certain niche by viewing how many total listings have been posted in a certain period, and how many of those listings ended in sales. You can then dig deeper and find information on the success rate of the item, average price, total dollar volume and the amount of sellers who have sold a product with those keywords. You can then see how you stack up with other sellers by viewing the average sales and revenue per seller. If you want to investigate an individual seller Hammertap has that covered as well. With a search of a specific seller ID you can see all of the recent transactions that seller has made. This is a good way to see how you stack up with the competition, and to see how many competitors there are in your niche.
HammerTap is a desktop software that can be used on any Windows machine. It currently can only be used on a Mac that is using a PC operating system. HammperTap offers a 10 day free trial and is priced at $19.95/ month.
