Sydney, in your Auction Genius Course you offer a lot of helpful
and creative tips on finding products and you often make reference
to Chris Malta and Rob Cowie of Worldwide Brands. They too offer
many helpful resources where a person can find products all around
the world.I would also like to share a helpful resource that I use
that can help your readers find resources a lot closer to home -
like in their own community.

The top questions for those who want to sell products on eBay and
throughout the Internet is, "WHAT SHOULD I SELL and/or WHERE DO I
FIND PRODUCTS TO SELL?"

Most people immediately begin to Google for "Wholesale Products,"
or wholesale product lists. I have found a better and safer way.
I have discovered that there are treasures in our own backyards
that we have never discovered. Why not dig for gold this year in
your own hometown, county and state? After committing myself to
searching for products to sell on eBay, at auction, to retailers
and other wholesalers, what I found was surprising and amazing.
And now, if I lived for 100 years I would NEVER,
NEVER, NEVER run out of products to sell." And I find new sources
and new products almost every week!

Here is one hunting product tip you can use in 2007 in any state
and in any county in America. Make Friends with an auctioneer.
"Find Professional Auctioneers and Talk to Them." They are walking
goldmines of information.

ASK Auctioneers where they find products to sell or ask them if
they will tell you where there are people who own wholesale or
discounted merchandise you can purchase to sell on eBay or from your
website. Assure them that you are not an auctioneer and will not be
competing with them. You only need help in discovering where to buy
cheap products to sell. Professional auctioneers are very resourceful
people. (I became a licensed auctioneer in 1968 and updated my
license in 1985).

Many professional auctioneers sell a variety of products from all over
the world. Auctioneers have connections to people who have a variety
of products that you need and they want to sell. They have already
found many of the resources that you and I are looking for. Tapping
into these rich resources is like tapping into an oil well.

Look in your local newspaper under "Auctions" or in your yellow pages
for "Auctioneers." There are niche auctions and auctioneers who
specialize in such products as: antiques, automobiles, livestock,
liquidations and estate sales where they sale the general merchandise
and house hold items of a family who has died.

You can often find treasures at public auctions and then resell those
items, but I had rather talk to an auctioneer and learn about the
valuable resources of products and people that he or she have
discovered, through the years, working as a professional auctioneer.
I had rather learn where I can buy multiple products than just one
good deal at a public auction sale. Whether he or she is licensed,
part time or a full time auctioneer they know about products and
people who want to sell them. Especially talk to some of the older
more experienced auctioneers.

Recently an auctioneer told me about a man who owns a warehouse,
less than 20 minute drive from my home, with millions of dollars
worth of pharmacy bottles, residential and commercial light
fixtures, clothing, coffee, "dollar store items" and thousands
of other miscellaneous items. He has a resource where he can buy
over 2,000 men's name brand jackets at a 90% discount. And because
we have become friends, his resource, is now my resource. I stay
in touch with him and he tells me about new deals all of the time.
All I have to do is pick the product that is right for me.

I attended an auction sale about 110 miles from my hometown and
talked to the auctioneer conducting the sale. He told me about a
wholesale/flea market out in the country that was located on my
way back home. I would have never found this place on my own. It
was like discovering a goldmine that very few people know anything
about. There I found merchandise that was just as good and just as
cheap as the merchandise that I had found two months earlier at a
trade show in Atlanta, Georgia. One of the choice products I found
was cell phone covers. Covers that sold from $12.95 to $21.95 I
could buy for around $3.00. What a deal!

If you can't find a local auctioneer in your newspaper or yellow
pages, look in your state paper or go to www.auctioneers.org/.
Not all states license auctioneers, but those who do will have a
licensing board, commission or auctioneers association. You can
find such information at this website. Call an auctioneer and ask
them for their help in finding local products. You'll be glad you
did.

If you are interested in discovering some ways to find products in
your own hometown and area go to www.theproducthunter.com and sign
up for "The Product Hunter's Newsletter." If I can be of help to
you just let me know. You can contact me at,
Dennishester@Carolina.rr.com.

Happy New Year and Happy Product Hunting in 2007 and beyond!
Dennis Hester.
www.theproducthunter.com