The niche of men’s suits is a tougher market to pitch than the DVD niche. When looking through the completed listings for men’s suits, there were fewer auctions that ended with a sale than with the series 24 that was profiled above.
There was not a great of information when looking through eBay’s Pulse. With any broad category of clothing, there were no popular searches or popular products that came up with men’s suits anywhere. Any information that will be used with in this sector will be coming from research of what is currently being listed as well as completed listings. As a general side note, there will be many times when you will not be able to find information through eBay research so you will have to check through the completed listings and active listing to see what particular product can sell best for you as well as learn more about how others are selling their products.
In this particular niche of men’s suits, the best-selling item that was found were Brooks Brothers suits. When searching through current list things that were going on, Brooks Brothers suits was one of the few items that were receiving bids and they were often garnering many bids, ranging anywhere from about three to ten bids. The other items that were receiving bids were any items that had a designer label attached to the particular product. The number of items being sold is right around 17,000. Often the suits would range from about $25 up to a high of about $160. Most of the completed listings ended with a price somewhere around $25-$30.There were fifty-two active listings for Brooks Brothers mens suits.
One of the keys when you’re selling within clothing is that you must make sure to be very descriptive with your heading. If you’re selling a suit of a particular length, make sure to put that information in your headline so that someone does not have to click through to find your particular suit sizes. This is critical because with 17,000 items for sale, someone who needs a suit of the size you are selling will not have the time or patience to click through all listings to find yours. You must make sure to be very descriptive with your use of the headline and use the subheadline if you can to further promote your product.
It seems that many retailers are trying to sell some of the excess inventory especially in plus sized clothing. There are very few bids, if any, on some of the plus size suits that were being auctioned. Many of these auctions started their bids at 100 plus dollars so this could have potentially scared off some bidders. There is not as much competition within this particular sector so be sure to not bid your products at one cent due to the fact that you do not know if there will be many bids. When looking at the completed listings for the last three days, several items were listed at one cent received one bid.
If you are able to also sell a suit with a particular brand name, this could be an added bonus. Many sellers were able to put this brand name within the headline so that if someone is searching for a particular brand, your listing will show up. Here are some of the eBay stores so you can model some of your ads after what they are selling:
DRESS SUITS (3006)
davinci exclusive (1556)
Menswear eCollection (778)
DeCalo Fashion (697)