Here is what happened to me.
I have folks that think this selling on ebay is awesome, I always tell them to not tell people what I sell for the obvious reason. My folks know but thats it.
I guess at break at work or something my Dad was talking to one of his employees about ebay since She was telling him about how she would like to know more about it. He said that I sold stuff on there for a living and makes pretty good living doing it too. Before I knew it He was telling me she wanted to call me about it and ask some questions. She calls and didnt know anything at all. I just said I will come over and show you how to get started selling. I went, spend 3-4hrs showing here exactly how to do everything down to photo, listings,etc.
A week or 2 later I see a new competitor of mine using my photos, and my text to sell exactly the items I had. nearly all my listings down to a "T"
The funny thing is I sometimes use humor in my listings if there is a place for it. She even used that in Her listings, Nothing anyone else would have done but me. I was pissed and called Dad up and said "what the Hell"?.
I guess sometime over the previous year or so He mentioned my niche out of the blue in conversation due to how cool he thought it was that I quit an aviation engineering job for ebay full time.
She figured how to source the items and just copied it all the way.
I called here and chewed her out and she was just saying she was helping friend that needed some extra money. I turned her into ebay also and she ended up stopping.
The main thing is if you tell family at all, Make sure you emphasis WHY you dont want people to know. NO MATTER how proud they are of you for doing so well.
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