to infinitive - I want to sell/selling my products on your website

To-infinitive or -ing form with a change in meaning

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Some verbs can be followed by a to-infinitive or the -ing form, but with a change in meaning:

go on    need     remember    try
mean     regret   stop        want

Cambridge Dictionary

So, what is the difference in meaning between the following:

• I want to sell my products on your website.


• I want selling my products on your website.

Answer

"Want" can be used to form a concealed passive construction when it means "to need something". This passive construction doesn't need a form of BE but it needs a form of gerund-participle verb. And as always, passives don't take an object, so "selling my products" isn't a correct construction. It should be

My products want(=need) selling(=to be sold) on your website.

But as a rule, want takes to-infinitive when it's used to express a desire.

I want to sell my products on your website.