I was introduced to ebay via a friend who is called Jim. We were having an evening out in a bar when he started to talk about the items he had bought and sold on the auction website. Jim talked with passion and seemed surprised that I had never used ebay before.
I asked Jim if he would help me to sell some items from my own home which were no longer needed. He stated that he would love to help and we agreed a time and date.
Now please do not get me wrong this is not something that I do for a living; in my actual work life I offer cheap calls for mobiles, as well as providing cheap leaflet printing. I am also involved with working with a group of psychic readers.
The first time I became involved in an auction was an experience that I will never forget; I was selling a rather old and tatty mobile phone. The phone in question had been kept in a draw for about two months and was basically about to be thrown out. Jim told me that I could make some money by selling it, therefore I took his advice and put it up for sale on ebay.
I did not think that it would sell at all and I started the auction, which was over five days, at only ninety-nine pence. At the outset things were very quiet. This for me was some what annoying and I needed to have a lot of patience. On the last day of the auction, with only three hours to go, somebody put in a bid. I could not believe it, I could make ninety-nine pence! With five minutes to go the auction had still only had one bid, however it then went a bit crazy. During the next few minutes things went a little crazy as people tried to out bid each other to win the auction and in the end the phone was purchased by a man for around twenty six dollars. I have to admit that I was more than happy with the amount that the auction fetched.
I was now hooked and started to look around my house for other items to sell. I have now sold many different items, including music records, football programs, clothes and antiques.
My favourite item to sell has to be antiques. This is because these type of auctions seem to get more people bidding on them than other auctions I use. You can also find some real bargains in this sector. I would say that around eighty percent of the items I sell are now some form of antique.
