For those of you who have asked me how to do ebay, this blog is for you.
Many of you have dealt with me for years, and for that I am very thankful. I started on ebay in 2000, when my oldest son was just three. All my life I had never had the vision of being a stay at home mom; I always thought I would work even after my kids were born (my Mom always seemed a bit unfulfilled staying home with us). My husband’s career allowed me the choice to stay home or work when my son was born. So, even though I made the choice to stay at home, I never lost the desire to do something on my own. I was growing a bit restless when my husband suggested ebay.
Early on, ebay had a very bohemian attitude. It was also very hard for the computer challenged. Fortunately for me, my husband knew a heck of a lot more than I did. In my early days on ebay I took pictures with my regular camera and then took them to Albertson’s to have put on a DVD. Do you know how expensive that was?? Plus, you did not always get the shot you thought you got. The other thing was that my husband spent his ENTIRE Saturday cropping pictures and uploading them to the Internet. Now, you may ask, an entire Saturday? It took an entire day because that was back in the olden times when everyone had dial-up and you grew new gray hair every time you tried to upload something to the Internet. Now that I have experienced faster connections, I can’t believe I actually survived. When I go to my mother-in-law’s house to use her computer I just want bonk my head on the wall because I no longer have the patience to wait on the pages to load. She still has dial-up.
Ebay has since made it very easy. I learned baby HTML when I started on ebay. For those of you just starting be thankful that you don’t even know what HTML is, let alone try and write it. Computer blah-blah, and if you get one backslash wrong your whole picture won’t load. Life is good now.
What I would like to do on this blog is write about the whole ebay experience. From starting, taking pictures, getting items to sell, dealing with customers, and, and…there is so much to say. People are always asking me, “So, how do you do ebay?” Well, here is how…
Please feel free to email me with specific questions. There is a good chance that it has happened to me or I have dealt with it already.
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Good luck with your new blog, Tracy! You definitely have gotten off to a fast start with a few great blog posts. May there be many more to follow!
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Thanks for the kind words, Dave. You have been wonderful to work with, and might I note to all my readers that as my name indicates I am in Texas and Dave is in chilly Detriot. All of our transactions have been via email and the telephone. If you need help from a web designer that is honest yet understands that not everyone speaks fluent computer, then he is your man.