Here's my story.
I was a laid off auto worker (temporarily at the time) for a short period
not long after I was married. I had over 8000 CDs (and still do), many of
them oop/rare. I had rent to pay, etc. and since this was a labor-dispute
thing, GM contended any unemployment pay.
I made an emotional divorce with owning the originals, upgraded my PC
(1700$ at the time - things have changed!!) to enable me to cd-r and
started selling. Since that time (and being a music addict), I have moved
to ebay and use it as a place to sell so that I can keep the influx of new
stuff strong and still keep a shirt on my proverbial back. Most of what I
sell, I DO like - which is why (in most cases) I bought it...and I buy an
*awful* lot. I moved to ebay mostly because it has some semblance of
community via the feedback process. I have to dispell one myth I hear
bandied about constantly. Ebay isn't all about high prices...for every
overpriced item, there are a hundred great deals out there waiting to be
found. I buy as much as I sell on ebay (well, almost :-) - and usually I
turn around and sell it again, often at a loss. I don't look at it as a
money making venture; I look at it as a way of keeping the music coming in
and staying married/housed, etc. As anyone who does this with ANY
regularity will quickly tell you, it isn't easy if you are going to be a
good seller. It takes a LOT of time, patience, standing in lines at the
post office, buying packing supplies, etc. When I *do* make something on a
sale, it doesn't cover much of the losses I incur on the other items (not
to mention ebay fees, paypal fees, pkging costs, etc.). Maybe some people
are making a killing on ebay and it's all about *selling* for them, but I
know a LOT of people who are selling IDM/313/Ambient stuff who in the same
category as myself. Hope that sheds a bit of light in terms of at least one
corner of "why" the ebay phenom exists. On the buyer end, it is there
because (as I alluded previously) there are some great deals on items I
never thought I'd ever track down again. 'Nuff said.
jeff
At 05:30 PM 10/30/2002, James R Bamford wrote:
quoted 2 lines The one thing I don't understand about the whole ebay thing is why the hell
>The one thing I don't understand about the whole ebay thing is why the hell
>is it happening at all..!?