By: Matthew Ryan
If you have searched for something to buy online, chances are you have come across a “niche site” streaming listings from eBay. These sites can help you find what you are looking for and all while removing the hassle of searching eBay and other sites yourself.
A few years back, eBay launched a program where webmasters could put eBay listings directly on their web site. This spawned a new generation of so-called “niche” web sites, where a webmaster would create a web site themed around a certain product. The product listings on eBay are streamed directly to the web site. Even categories and subcategories are transferred to the web site, making it easy to navigate and find what you are looking for. If the webmaster did a good job designing the web site, then finding what you are looking for is much easier than going directly to eBay doing a search for what you want.
For example, let us take a look at the web site www.transformersnation.com. The web site is themed around the “Transformers” niche. You can see in the left sidebar all the categories for the different Transformers products. Searching for products that can be found in multiple categories spread across eBay can be a pain. The niche site transformersnation.com relieves this pain as every category that Transformers products fall in are right there on the side of the page.
The competition on eBay tends to keep prices low compared to other web sites selling their product directly from their stock. This adds even more value for the customer when using a niche site with eBay listings as you will be saving time and money. This makes the experience of using one of these niche web sites second to none.
As you can see, niche sites with eBay listings can be very helpful to anyone performing a search looking to buy something online.
