The Perfect eBay Seller
Along long time ago in a distant galaxy, before I sold Medical Devices to Hospitals scattered throughout the plains of Indiana, I worked for that same Medical Device Company as a draftsman in Orchard Park, New York. It was a typical nine to five job with a great bunch of guys and gals strategically housed into a Rubik’s Cube maze of comfortable eyeball tall constructed cubicles, I was always getting lost in and never able to remember all the addresses of.
I’m fairly certain if I returned today I would still find large chunks of my bored brain swept into the corners of the plant floor scaring the poor dust bunnies around with that glazed over Frankenstein look of “why am I here” horror.
In these carved out middle class worker-prisons, corporate higher-ups engineer to keep the nine-to-fivers from rioting in the cafeteria, the eBay Internet shortcut is holstered for easy access and quick get-aways. It’s an art form practiced by casually dressed middle America workers, Wyatt Earp would envy. Why someone isn’t selling a cheap $7.00 eBook entitled “The best ways to hide your eBay Internet shortcut” is beyond me.
For far too many nine-to-fivers their full time job is a nothing more than a diversion from their real passion, hunting for collectible “stuff” littered about their local communities, they can then sell on eBay.
You might think I’m exaggerating but you would be wrong. In the kingdom of cubicles where my right arm slid my three-button mouse across the groove in my mouse pad 456,678,935,001.9086763 times, most of the adult population I shared cubicles with were “collectors” turned eBay sellers. I say “turned eBay sellers” because my fellow draftsmen were “collecting” way before eBay devised their ingenious business plan designed to pry a small fraction of my co-worker’s subjectively valued stash from their basements.
A recent Oprah Winfrey show “Inside the lives of Hoarders” tells the sad stories of individuals whose lives are crippled by the obsessive compulsive ailment now termed “hoarding”.
Follow as my eBay adventure turns its eye toward eBay’s dream target audience, and looks into the mind of the organized hoarder, otherwise know as a “collector”.
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Thanks Rosemary, But I don ‘t see the five stars. I need all the five stars I can get. It might get a little rough around here as I explore what my audience wants to read. 
Continued success with your adventure. A truly awesome tale of courage and fortitude I would love to share with my readers here on my eBay adventure.
Mark
Great job Mark!!!!!!!!!!!I give you a 5- the best!