u/Entire-Measurement60

Shopee has three useful entry points, and they behave differently:Happy to answer specifics in the comments. What are you trying to collect?

There are some tools that make this process easier or at least use an actor on Apify, which, in my opinion, is much easier.

I dropshipped for about two years before I figured out my biggest money leak: I kept picking products that looked hot but were already flooded.

same story every time. I'd see something doing numbers, get excited, test it, then realize 15 other stores were running the exact same product and racing each other to the bottom on price. by the time I showed up the margin was already dead.

so now before I touch anything I do a boring little check. I pull the actual listings for that product on shopee (it's massive in SEA and honestly a goldmine for seeing real demand), and I just look at three things: how many sellers are already on it, what the real price spread looks like, and whether the recent reviews are actually recent or the listing's just coasting on old social proof. if the cheapest seller ALSO has the best rating, I skip it, that niche is already won.

shopee hides the exact sold numbers now, so I estimate volume from how much review activity a listing gets instead. steady reviews = it's actually moving. pretty listing with no reviews = trap.

I ended up building a little tool to do this in bulk instead of opening 40 tabs, but honestly even doing it by hand would've saved me a few hundred bucks in dead stock back when I started. not gonna drop a link here, it's on my profile if you want it. happy to get into the weeds in the comments.

Sharing this because I see the same question a lot here: "how do I know if a product will actually sell before I commit money to stock?"

What used to burn me was guessing. I'd see a product look popular, stock it, then find out the market was already flooded and everyone was undercutting on price. So I built a simple research routine before buying anything:

1. Pull the competitor listings, not just the top one. One bestseller hides nothing. I look at the whole spread of sellers for that product to see the real price range and where the gaps are.

2. Use sales signals, not vibes. Shopee hides the exact sold count now, so I estimate sales volume from review activity. A listing with steady review flow is moving units. A pretty listing with no reviews is a trap.

3. Check price vs rating. The winners are usually not the cheapest, they are the ones with solid ratings at a fair price. If the cheapest seller also has the best rating, that niche is brutal, skip it.

4. Watch the shop, not just the item. A shop's follower count and response rate tell you how serious the competition is.

I do this in bulk now instead of opening tabs one by one, with a tool I put together that pulls Shopee product data (price, ratings, estimated sales volume, shop info) for a whole search or category at once. Not going to drop a link in the post, it's in my profile. Happy to walk through the routine in the comments if it helps anyone.

Sharing something that saved me a ton of time as a Shopee seller, in case it helps anyone here.

For a while I was manually opening dozens of listings every day to check competitor prices, what was selling, ratings, and so on. It's slow, and you only ever see the first page or two, so you end up missing most of the market.

What changed it for me was pulling the search results in bulk into a spreadsheet (name, price, rating, an estimated sales-volume per listing, and the seller) so I could actually sort and compare everything at once. A few things jumped out:

• Having a rough sales-volume read next to each listing is the real game changer. Price and ratings alone don't tell you what's moving, a cheap listing that looks busy can still barely sell.
• Most of a category's sales concentrate in just a handful of sellers. Really easy to spot once it's sorted by volume.
• Price gaps are everywhere. I found items I was underpricing by 20 to 30% compared to the ones actually selling.

Full disclosure: the way I pull the data is a Shopee tool I maintain (it exports listings by keyword, category, or shop straight to a spreadsheet or JSON). I won't drop a link here out of respect for the rules. It's on my profile if you want to check it out, or just comment and I'll reply with it.