From the desk of: Gary Ruplinger
Tuesday 1:12pm
Re: Is Auction Inspector worth the money?

 

Fellow Reseller,

Let me tell you what I think about most eBay software.

I hate eBay software.  I've used so many tools in the past that should never have been released because not only do they not work, they completely waste time I could be using to do research.

Back when I first started my eBay business in college, a friend of mine was doing work for one of eBay's largest sellers at the time, and they had a tool they wanted to release... a piece of eBay auction software. 

And this thing was a real pile of garbage.  I'm glad I got to test it out for free or I would have been requesting an immediate refund.

And so my longstanding disdain for eBay auction software was born.

So you can imagine what I was thinking when I was asked to look at The Auction Inspector. 

I was sitting there thinking, "Here we go again."

Call me jaded if you want.  I prefer to think of it as realistic. 

Once I finally make it to their web page, I'm greeted by this headline:

Are you looking for ideas to make
a KILLING on eBay?

At this point I'm thinking, "It's on now.  I hate hype." 

"I'm gonna tear this thing to shreds, and nobody will want to buy it after I get done with it."

But then I decided to skim the actual salesletter and I even read a few of their gazillion or so testimonials.   It sounded like some people out there actually liked this product and were using it to make money. 

So I decided to bite the bullet and give it a try too.

I got the software downloaded and installed, which I'll admit was simple and painless.  I'll give 'em credit there - they at least made it easy on me.

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Now before I go on about the software, let me explain to you how I've always done product research in the past. 

I would browse products that I knew I could get from suppliers and then go do a completed items search on eBay to see how much I could typically get for it.   It was painstakingly slow work since most products aren't worth selling on eBay unless you can get one heck of a deal on them. 

I could spend entire days searching for products to sell and come up empty handed.  But I kept at it and here and there I would find products I could sell at a profit.  It was time consuming and tedious, but it sure beats being out of business. 
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Okay, back to The Auction Inspector Software...

After playing around with it to get familiar with the interface (I suppose I could have read the directions, but c'mon, I'm a guy!) I started using this tool to look for phrases that had potential in each category. 

Last year around Christmas time I literally spent an entire week doing research on toys that I could sell around the holidays, so I figured the toys category was a good place to start since I was already familiar with what's hot and what's not in that niche. 

"Then I hurled my pen at the screen."

This thing was starting to come back with phrases that I had painstakingly determined over several months of work and countless hours of research. 

And here this damn thing was making all those hours of my life spent doing research a complete waste. 

Needless to say, I was impressed. 

It was actually able to find products that were in high demand but had little supply.  I wish I had this thing last winter when I was still doing things the old fashioned way. 

But The Auction Inspector certainly proved it had some value to me.

Now The Auction Inspector software isn't perfect.  It can only tell you what it thinks has the highest potential to be a profitable product. 

It's still up to you to locate those products at prices that make sense.  For example, it might show that iPhones are in high demand, but getting them at true wholesale prices is next to impossible.   However, that's an extreme example, if you've got a good wholesale supplier or you do your own importing, you'll be able to uncover stuff.

So with all that said, yes, I do recommend The Auction Inspector as an auction tool worth owning for anybody who wants to make more money with less time on eBay. 

Recommending this product sure surprises the heck out of me - I wanted to rip this thing a new one - but it actually worked. 

Click here to get your copy of The Auction Inspector.  You won't regret it.

To Your Success,



Gary Ruplinger
Former eBay Powerseller