At this point in time, you should be mostly sold out of selling the odds and ends that were laying around your house. If you know how to use the completed item research tool, you will need to solely rely on it when going out and hunting for deals.

Now is the time to go to the mall, outlet malls and storefronts on an inventory hunt. The ideal situation at this point is to find inventory from a store that is having a clearance sale. Stores that are already discount orientated such as outlet malls, TJ Maxx, Ross, Marshalls and Nordstrom Rack are the perfect stores to visit when sales are taking place. Take a pen and paper and as you spot deals, write them down. Take quick snapshots if you have a camera phone. At this point, you are just seeing what’s out there. Already having a good idea of eBay Pulse will give you a good idea what to start looking for in the store.

Take home the list of deals you found and sort out which ones are good and which ones are bad. Do some completed item research on eBay to see which items are selling and at what price. Once you have found out which ones look profitable to sell (after listing fees), head back and grab the items you want to start listing.

Buy multiples of the profitable items if possible. Selling multiples of an item you only have to list once makes you more money and saves you time.

Thinking this is all just a waste of time and there is no profit to be found? We used this exact same strategy and bought a pair of jeans for $9 at a Marshalls and sold them for $100 on eBay.

Once you get the hang of it, you really get to see what you can sell on eBay for a profit. Start making relationships with the store managers and clear out old inventory for them. Usually they are more than happy for you to move their old stock for them if they still sell well on eBay.