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 offering dog insurance.
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. I now had no real use for this particular phone and it had been sat idle in the cupboard for the last four or five weeks. 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. Originally nothing happened and it was quite frustrating to be truthful. 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. Over the next five minutes the phone had another six bids and sold at around ten pounds. To say I was happy with this sale price was an understatement.
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.
