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gosh I started selling on ebay when I had nothing.. absolutely nothing.. I was pregnant doing a Masters and had no job. I had a designer dress I bought for £37 in the sale. I went on ebay and sold it for £120 buy it now.. the rest is history.. I've completed my MBA, had my baby and is still home nurturing her until she's three and EBAYING ALL THE WAY! I won't do office work anymore unless if its consulting... I havent made the money in an office that I've made on ebay! Ebay sucks though... too much stress and aggravation from moaning customers, but good money

Ebay is a lot of stress, it totally consumes you. I'm doing better on Amazon these days, its a lot lower maintenance, and margins are bigger if you play your cards right. Saying that it's easier to get started with Ebay, so I have a few Ebay accounts on the go

Saying that I do freelance sales and marketing from home and abroad at the moment, need the cash stimulus until my Amazon accounts are in good standing.

Ebay has actually been my get away of sorts. Ive been a stay at home mom for a year now and the first few months I went crazy with having nothing to do and no money of my own. My boredom lead to research and I found my slice of the pie on ebay and have been happily making extra money for a good 6 months now...

I agree with the stress of ebay but I am so glad I have everyone to help me kick butt on there!

I hate ebay but prolly the best thing that happned to alot of ppl including myself..
went from homeless. sellin drugs on the corner.. to be able to get back on my feet, engaged to the most precious woman on earth,
still working a 8-2 more like it.. but got a car, nice tv, touchscreen pc, and now.. looking to buy a house.. and get my fiancee to start doin this full time :)

'selling drugs on the corner'..... oh my!

Been there but did it from comfort of my own home years and years and years ago when it all was top quality.... then someone told me to look into eb and I did and since then there has been no need for me to do bad things - thanks eb and Alex and Imran (for letting me know that I dont have to do bad thing to get by in life).....

..... unfortunatley I didnt get a pretty lady at the end of it, but I got a good lookin' dog - had to pay for it though! :)



Saying all that, I have had banging jobs. The best was when I was working for a TV station, editing the news everyday for everyone to watch in the mornings and evenings - also transmitting all programs.

I was known as 'The News King' because I was so good. I am from UK and had U.S. ringing me regular asking if I could send them a copy of my edited news so they could play it there - I'd press a few buttons, adjust the satellite and send away - 1st time they rang they said 'we have heard about you' - I was chuffed coz I was only a young lad.

I actually worked things out there so that I had things on an automated system. I should have been in the office from 6am - 7pm, but I set things up so I was there for only 1.5 hours max a day! - and they called me the news king... hmmmm... more like 'get in and out as fast as you can' king.


No job for me these days as I like to work from home and dont really like being told what to do by some ignorant boss and co-workers. I got too much to offer and am priceless as far as I am concerned, especially for money hungry companies - I like helping homeless and old people so maybe when I 'grow up' a bit, I might do charity work coz I got lots too offer there.