I registered for ebay on May 15, 1997, 10 years ago today.
My first sale was a pre-opening commemorative guide to Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park which I think went for about $17.00. My most recent sale was 2 days ago for a lot of 50 promotional pens for $15.50 to a woman in England. Along the way, I've logged sales to every state and most major countries.
My best month I had sales of just over $2,600. My best year I had sales of over $13,000.
For a few months in 2000, I did ebay full-time after leaving my old job.
At my peak, I was running 100 active auctions at all times. Back then, auctions ran for 10 days and I would list 10 new items every day.
I currently sell pretty casually, 16 listings in the last 60 days, and that was after a very extended period of not selling at all. I just started back recently, but I'm looking forward to many more years of active selling.
My ebay 10th Anniversary!
May 15th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
May 15th, 2007 at 01:20 pm 1179235217
It's great to use spare time to make money, not spend money ;-o