Do you remember the first item you ever sold online? Let us know by sending an email to ina@auctionbytes.com and we may publish your story. Today we hear from Brigitte who found a perfect match between her love of thrift-store hunting and selling online.
I remember it very clearly. I've been thrift store hunting since I was 10 years old. (I'm 41 now) and I came across a beautiful Asian scarf that you could tell was of quality. This was in 1998. It was 25 cents. I knew I had a major deal here. I thought "I'm gonna give this ebay thing a try) so I did just that. I don't recall how I got it on there as I didn’t have a digital camera back then. I think I scanned it in from a Polaroid Anyway, it sold for about $25. That was it I was hooked. I've been selling ever since. My screen name on ebay is happy4123 and I've sold over 500 items thus far.
Brigitte Martinez
Lake Forest, CA
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Ina Steiner is co-founder and Editor of EcommerceBytes and AuctionBytes.com and has been reporting on ecommerce since 1999. She's a widely cited authority on marketplace selling and is author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). Her blog was featured in the book, "Blogging Heroes" (Wiley 2008). Follow her on Twitter at @auctionbytes and send news tips to ina@ecommercebytes.com.
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