[Who Soup]

Hey guys, I just wanted to share some interesting facts I've found while selling a lot of items here on HF. All facts shared were obtained through my own sales and the hopes of this thread is to hopefully boost sales for everyone. And as a note this data is complied from 2014 - 2015 as that is where I was most active on sales.

• Most sales occur in the middle of the week
  


• Most people who buy products/services on HF have an offline source of income
  


• If it's not successful in the first 3 days it's probably not going to work out
  


• People prefer unique products/services opposed to "improvements" on previously existing products.
  


• It is definitely possible to make a living from sales just from HF alone.
  


• The average age of people who purchased items were 19
  


• Premium sellers section targets mostly ubers
  


• Secondary sellers section mainly targets Regular members and Leet
  


• Paypal was actually relatively safe to use as a payment processor
  


• Most people preferred Paypal opposed to bitcoin
  


• People are willing to drop a lot of money; the largest single transaction I have done on here was $720
  


• About 50% of sales were outside of the US (I sold physical products)
  


• More sales were obtained while displaying "Uber" other than a custom userbar.
  


• All members regardless of upgrades had a similar scam ratio.
  

I encourage all to get involved in the marketplace, It's a really good way to earn extra money and to learn how to start a business from nothing and watch it develop into something that is thriving.

[Bennynguyen100]

Thanks for this! This is pretty useful. :) Good tips.

[Backopy]

Great and informative post, thanks Who Soup

[minimalist]

I think this share would be more useful if you included the dataset from which you came to these conclusions.

[Prophett]

Such a great post. Thanks for the share and encouragement.
I'm currently working on my account and seeking projects before I enter the marketplace.

[J. McCarthy]

From experience in digital goods I saw similarities but a lot of them, for me, were complete opposite. Interesting but really just comes down to your target market

[reBELLYus]

Is this from your view of point or are there stats to back up the above?

[Who Soup]

I think this share would be more useful if you included the dataset from which you came to these conclusions.

I can't give you all the cheat codes 🎉

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Is this from your view of point or are there stats to back up the above?

All of these statistics were gathered through previous sales data. It does break down a lot more but I think this is good for now. I might try to ask people who sell things in the marketplace to keep me updated on their sales in return everyone who contributes will get in depth market analysis.

[PromᎥnent]

Interesting statistics. Thank you for taking the time to compile them.