It doesn't matter what people want because there are so many sellers from Sri Lanka right now all trying to sell the same things to the limited amount of American ebay buyers who will actually order things from overseas which is only a tiny minority of them. This forces price competition to the point where it is impossible to sell those items at a profit. It is like trying to open a book store on a street that already has 15 other book stores right in a row and only 3 customers.
You have to find something unique or there is just no chance of success.
Right now American buyers can get Ceylon tea in their local tea stores and there are 1000 listings selling it from America. If you check worldwide you get another 35,000 listings, almost all from Sri Lanka. If you look at sold listings you see that the worldwide demand for Ceylon Tea on ebay from Sri Lanka is only enough to sell 26 units a day from those 35,000 listings, and judging from the prices at least 1/3rd of those had to have been sold at a loss.
I had more sales yesterday by myself than Ceylon Tea did, and there are a couple thousand sellers trying to sell it.
