eBay: More Wiis sold through us than Xbox360s and PS3s put together

Posted by Rob Beschizza, December 9, 2008 5:38 AM | permalink

eBay is well-poised to spot tech trends. Check out its list of the tech "winners," those being items sold using its auction service.

• Nintendo Wii: 2,056,866 related items sold
• Microsoft Xbox360: 1,297,903 related items sold
• Sony PSP: 350,591 related items sold
• iPod Touch: 281,361 related items sold
• Nintendo Wii Fit: 266,584 related items sold
• Apple iPhone 3G: 212,837 related items sold
• BlackBerry Pearl: 207,688 related items sold
• BlackBerry Curve: 193,788 related items sold
• Sony Playstation 3: 103,333 related items sold
• Guitar Hero III: 98,159 related items sold
• Halo 3: 91,067 related items sold
• Grand Theft Auto IV: 43,005 related items sold
• MacBook Air: 12,423 related items sold
• Guitar Hero Aerosmith: 3,749 related items sold
• Rock Band 2's: 1,650 related items sold

Spot the conspicuously missing item!

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#1 posted by Chrisos , December 9, 2008 5:52 AM

Wow! Not a single mention of cheese.

Cheese sellers of the world: Fear the end!

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#2 posted by mralistair , December 9, 2008 5:56 AM

blu ray players?

george forman grills?

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#3 posted by Rob Beschizza

, December 9, 2008 6:03 AM

AMIGA!

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#4 posted by BobbyMike , December 9, 2008 6:09 AM

Zune

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#5 posted by guy_jin , December 9, 2008 6:10 AM

PS2 IZ DED LOL

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#6 posted by Lilb792 , December 9, 2008 6:35 AM

OH DUDE WII PWAND ALL

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#7 posted by Josh Smith

, December 9, 2008 6:50 AM

If you think about it this isn't a good thing; it means that either people realize the Wii is not for them and dump it on eBay or that Nintendo can't keep up with in store demand turning users to eBay.

Either way not a list I'd want my product on.

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#8 posted by SamF , December 9, 2008 7:17 AM

What's the time period on this? This month? All year?

I'd suspect that quite a few of the Wii sales are people just trading in a scarce commodity. I'd love to see numbers on what percentage of the winning bids on these items were more than retail, less than retail, or around retail. Also how many were from ebay stores vs. individual sellers.

I'm sure there's all sorts of data that ebay could track that'd be more telling as to what people are buying and why than just straight sales numbers.

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#9 posted by Chris S , December 9, 2008 7:48 AM

Nintendo DS.

NOBODY gives up their Nintendo DS.

Riding the subway in Toronto, my rough take is that the DS outnumbers the PSP by 2:1 to 3:1. The PSP is almst exclusively in the hands of the late teen, early twenties, male, while a DS can be in the hands of anyone - male, female, just past toddler, teen, twenties, thirties, forties. I've even seen execs with their DS, although the way they hold it (vertically) strongly suggests they are running Brain Age.

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#10 posted by dculberson , December 9, 2008 8:05 AM

The PS3 numbers are incredible..

I wonder how it's doing in retail??

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#11 posted by fibreoptik , December 9, 2008 8:33 AM

No Xbox!! :D

LMAO

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#12 posted by fibreoptik , December 9, 2008 8:34 AM

regular xbox that is :P

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#13 posted by hungryjoe , December 9, 2008 9:18 AM

My guess is that more than half the electronics sold on eBay are brand new, sealed-in-the-box items. eBay Selling policies and fees are geared more toward retailers than end users. These numbers are not a reflection of the desirability (or lack thereof) of these products. It's more a reflection of eBay's ability to attract small businesses who can't afford to build or market their own e-commerce sites.

This trend will only continue, with eBay's September policy changes designed to encourage this type of business. With seller fees up to 15%, the little guy with a used PSP is migrating away from eBay to less punishing venues like Craigslist.

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#14 posted by microcars

, December 9, 2008 9:58 AM

Spot the conspicuously missing item!

Any computer running Windows?

The latest release of "Little Brother" now translated to Latin?

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#15 posted by carriem , December 9, 2008 10:51 AM

Oh man, I'm so glad my ebay listing doesn't include the Krave! I especially like the...

hehhe

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#16 posted by FoetusNail , December 10, 2008 7:18 AM