IF you haven’t joined the ebay revolution yet, drop everything and get with it! I’ve found that there’s no better way to clear out the extra junk that’s accumulated in your man-cave than selling on Ebay. Cruise over to ebay.com and you can enter in keywords to see exactly which items are currently up for sale. Say you have an old pair of oakley sunglasses just collecting dust since your last upgrade. Enter in “oakley sunglasses” into your keyword search and check out just how much cash you could be making on ebay right now.

A great tip is to look at the catagories on the left hand side of any search. There is a clickable box link called “competed listings” that if you click, will show you just the completed auctions for the item you’re researching. Use those oakley sunglasses as your example. Search for them, then click the completed listings box, and check out all of the ended auctions for the actual sales prices. Any auctions listed in green are items that have actually sold (their final sales price). Items listed in red are items which did not sell. Using this information, you should be able to get a rough approximate gauge for which items are hot, and which are not and how much they’ve sold for.