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...Young's niche is quirky but lucrative: selling bubble wrap over eBay, largely to other eBay sellers, who use it to wrap their own items for shipping. That Young supports herself through an eBay business is not unusual; an estimated 75,000 Americans do. But her rise illustrates just how powerful eBay's 22 million-user platform can be for aspiring entrepreneurs...
...Young's small-business career began as an eBay cliche. A stay-at-home mother of two school-age daughters, living in rural Crawfordsville, Ind., Young had more time on her hands than money. She had always been good with computers and had an eye for collectibles. She started scouring local flea markets and estate sales looking for undervalued knickknacks she could then list on eBay. At first Young tried to keep 15 auctions going at any given time; then 25; then 50. Eventually, she reached 100. When the packing and fulfillment got to be too much to handle...
Many of the stickiest sites are tiny. SimSlots, for example, gets only about 600,000 users a month, or 5% of the traffic of eBay. But there's more than one way to measure popularity on the Net, and stickiness rankings do a great job of spotting trends and ferreting out Net addictions...
...past month, nearly 10,000 items relating to the Atari 2600 have shown up on eBay: joysticks, manuals and rare games, plus the systems themselves, which in good condition usually sell for $25 to $50. (Atari's old opponent Colecovision, in contrast, had fewer than 1,000 listings.) On the swap site Switchouse, the number of people with a 2600 to trade are outnumbered nearly 2 to 1 by those looking...
JEFF BEZOS SEC probes Amazon stock dump. Should've just sold the whole company on eBay...