EBay, Collectors, Flea Market & Antiques

We currently have several hundred items listed in our store. Antiques and collectibles with a few newer things I run across now and then.

This new ebay is not for the faint hearted. More and more, sales are haphazard and inconsistent, though I admit this Xmas season exceeded all previous records for us.

We have Meg to thank for much of today's turmoil. By chasing the quick buck year after year to burnish her short term numbers, she built a rotten foundation for the future. How many (hundreds of) THOUSANDS of neophyte buyers did she kick in the teeth by not only allowing them to be fleeced by crooked sellers but by actively enabling it? How many of those buyers said to hell with ebay and shouted it from the rooftops to anyone within hearing distance? More than we know, I suspect.

Whether they come back to try again remains to be seen. One thing is sure: If ebay ultimately survives the Bain robber barons it will be a blessed miracle.