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Posted by Michael Bulatovich on February 1, 2007, 8:41 pm
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>> > I love those sort of books. I picked up a very nice book on copper
>> > roofing and flashing, similar vintage, on eBay a few years back.
>> > Excellent book, and it cost less than 20% of what the spamm...er....OP
>> > is asking.
>>
>> How do you find the stuff?
>>
>> I confess to ignoring eBay. Do you have to browse for items or can it
>> notify
>> you based on criteria?
>
> Ignore eBay...? The words appear to be English, but I'm sure that I'm
> in the dark as to the thought process.
>
> If you so configure, eBay will email you when items matching your
> criteria show up. I am usually tracking a bunch of auctions at any
> given moment, half of them are for pricing research, half as bookmarks
> for further research and another half hoping for a bargain.
>
> Today I drove 30 miles to pick up a particular mailbox. I'd located
> it on the internet, priced it on the net and eBay, found a good price
> on eBay from a guy in my area, checked his web site and saw he had a
> bricks and mortar store, so there I went. It probably wasn't worth my
> time and gas to drive there, but I wanted to see the thing live, and I
> felt like taking a drive.
>
> I know a fair number of people that started as a "real" store then
> started dabbling with eBay to see if it would help them make money.
> One shut down their storefront antique furniture business and now sell
> exclusively on eBay. No more hanging around the store hoping someone
> will drop in.
>
> eBay is simple, even a Mensan....errrr....caveman can do it. ;)
OK. I'll check it out.....next week. I'm swamped.
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MichaelB
www.michaelbulatovich.ca
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