9 Tips For Finding Those Hard To Find Toys
Just because you may not see a toy on the shelf in a store, doesn’t mean it is out of stock. Use these nine tips to find even the toys that are the most difficult to get your hands on.
1. Communicate with your local stores to learn stocking patterns
2. Talk with store stockers just to learn how they run their store
3. Store employees are more likely to talk with collectors than dealers - I don’t recommend lying… but, I would be careful of the wording. They will figure out that you are a dealer/reseller when you visit buying the same things over and over.
4. Talk with customer service folks - Don’t assume all employees have the same level of information. Sometimes they have information the stockers don’t have. Where a stocker may not know when they are getting a shipment of a specific toy, the customer service folks may be able to tell you.
5. Avoid the big stores - check out drug stores, grocery stores - even smaller online toy stores
6. Visit grocery stores/drug stores in less affluent areas
7. Visit Out of the way cities
8. Look behind other toys on the shelves
9. Look under shelves in hidden storage areas - and places employees would hide toys.
The 2008 Holiday Toy Guide provides you with a list of the most popular toys - many of these toys are going to get harder and harder to find as we get closer to the holiday season. Be sure to use these tips to find these great selling toys.
Jenni Hunt
Jenni Hunt has been successful with turning her eBay hobby into a real business with real profits. She spends hours every week researching trends of what children’s items are selling well on eBay and shares that information with her HuntedTreasure and MyToyGuide members. You might know her from the popular Holiday Toy Guide that has been published annually since 2004. Although she specializes in researching trends with selling children’s items - many of the principles she teaches can be applied to other markets.
She is a stay at home mom who decided to leave her high tech marketing position when her first child was born in 1999. Jenni enjoys applying her marketing experience to her eBay business and has figured out many strategies for producing profit from it. In fact, she has consistently doubled her profits every year since starting her eBay business in 2003. She has a passion for helping other eBay sellers do the same by introducing them to the idea of internet marketing and moving beyond just selling auctions.
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