Going Pro on eBay

from the that's-one-way-to-do-it dept

An article in Fortune on how some folks are running their entire businesses on eBay. It's probably a better bet than day trading.
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    Richie, 23 Mar 2000 @ 5:46pm

    Using auction websites works.

    This article on Mr. Birbaum using ebay.com to sell all of his products, is right on the money. I know a retail store owner, who had such slow business, and he couldn't sell enough to make a profit. Then around 1999, selling on several web auction sites actually started making him more money. He has a comics store in a large town, but retail comics sales usually run from slow to nonexistent. Comics and cards are a very slow industry, with no profit (usually).

    By spending two days a week selling books, cards, and collectibles on net auctions, he started making sales that were previously impossible. FYI-- he was using ebay.com, auctions.yahoo.com, auctions.zdnet.com, and auctions.amazon.com.
    Check auctioninsider.com, or your favorite searchengine, for more sites.
    I have noticed more personal auction sites at CNET and Lycos, UBid.com, and Up4Sale.com. Now where did I leave that collectible signed copy of "1984" by George Orwell? Hmmmm......

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