EBay entrepreneurs winning success (Article About TOP eBayer---13,000+ Feedbacks!)

Los Angeles Times via Chicago Tribune ^ | October 31, 2002 | David Colker

[PJ-Comix]

You can find everything on EBay from a Learjet to a velvet painting of Elvis. But Jay and Marie Senese have found something far more rare on the auction site: a new way of life. EBay Inc. has afforded the husband-and-wife entrepreneur team the chance to earn a living selling CDs from their Sierra Madre home. They wrote a business plan, found sources for the more than 5,000 used CDs they put up for bid weekly, worked out the considerable logistics for handling their auctions and hired two full-time employees and several part-timers. The Seneses report to no one. If only they could take a day off. The couple's operation, known as 1 Cent CD, is by far the most successful home-based business operating on EBay, as measured by volume of merchandise. But like thousands of other full-time EBay merchants, the Seneses have discovered one of the great ironies of the Internet: The 21st century technology that has enabled them to run a business from home also has trapped them in an 18th century, work-consuming lifestyle reminiscent of farmers tied to their land or shopkeepers who lived above the store.

[July 4th]

eBay has changed a lot since I first started back in 1999.

You can say that again. I have maybe 100 feedback responses starting in January, 1999. I basically sell my electronics that I have no use for anymore. Until about 2002, most everyone was a pleasure to deal with, knew exactly what they were bidding on, and read the instructions. Out of my 100 auctions though, the last 2 have gone bad, and the one before those was painfully slow in finishing. People have either not responded to my e-mails, or say "I didn't know you wouldn't accept Paypal" despite the fact that I clearly state it in the auction. Times there have changed.

[PJ-Comix]

Profit margins are WAAAAAY down so that is why it is best to sell tons of stuff. You still make money but you have to work harder for it. However, that robot e-mail takes a lot of the work away.

[gogov]

Why anyone would want to purchase from the example you cited with that horrible feedback record is beyond me.

Have a look at their feedback. The negatives are usually buried with long strings of positive feedback from only a handful of regular bidders. Check it out.

Feedback Profile here

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[RipOff Report]

WOW!! Check this out. Ebay Power Seller Accused of THEFT and FRAUD with supporting documentation.

http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff211000.htm

[RipOff Report]

WOW!! Check this out. Ebay Power Seller Accused of THEFT and FRAUD with supporting documentation.

http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff211000.htm

[RipOff Report]

WOW!! Check this out: JAY AND MARIE SENESE Ebay Power Seller Accused of THEFT and FRAUD with supporting documentation.

http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/ripoff211000.htm

Sad really. Guess that answers the question why they don't simply go on holiday.

Source: http://www.jayandmarie.com/

[kingu]

Looks like jayandmarie finally took a vacation.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-CENT-CD-Nickel-Creek-A-Dotted-Line-NO-ART-CARD-ADVANCE-/380932111137?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item58b152bb21